Comparison

Control vs Ruach

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Control

This app helps you regain control of your time by setting limits on distracting applications. It blocks chosen apps once your daily limit is reached, promoting intentional usage and focus without guilt or pressure.

Highlights
  • Set app time limits
  • Block distracting apps
  • Promote intentional usage
  • Reclaim lost hours
  • Focus on work/study/creation
  • Simple and clear interface
Features
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Your time deserves boundaries.
 Control helps you take it back. Control – Screen Time Limits blocks distractions before they take over.
 You choose your apps. You set your limit. The rest becomes intentional. Instead of endless scrolling, you get a clear boundary.
 When your daily limit is reached, distracting apps stay blocked so your focus stays intact. No guilt. No pressure. Just structure. Control runs quietly in the background, helping you: • Limit apps that waste your time
 • Make every tap intentional
 • Reclaim hours without overthinking it Built for people who want clarity, not complexity. Whether you are focusing on work, studying, creating, or simply being more present, Control keeps you in charge. Less distraction.
 More intention.
 Full control. Download Control – Screen Time Limits and use your phone on purpose.

About

Ruach

This app helps you create dedicated time for spiritual reflection by temporarily locking distracting applications on your phone. It uses an NFC-enabled bookmark to initiate and end these focused sessions, allowing for uninterrupted time with God.

Highlights
  • Digital fasting to block distracting apps
  • NFC bookmark integration for session control
  • Intentional time with God
  • Supports morning devotion and quiet time
  • Ideal for services, small groups, and studies
  • Institutional tools for camps and ministries
Features
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A bookmark for time with God. We live in the most distracted time in human history due to mainly one thing: our phones. Constant notifications, scrolling, and digital noise make it harder than ever to actually be present with God and hear His voice, but Ruach helps create space for Him. Ruach is an iOS app paired with a physical bookmark containing an NFC chip that helps you create intentional time with God through a digital fast by blocking distracting apps. When you're ready to be in the Word, tap your bookmark. Your selected apps lock until you tap your bookmark again. The bookmark lives in your Bible, like any other bookmark. Opening Scripture and starting your time with God become one action. Your phone goes quiet, creating space for the Lord's voice to be heard. Use Ruach for whatever the moment is for: - Morning devotion. Tap before bed, put the bookmark in your Bible, and your Bible becomes the key to your phone the next morning. - Quiet time while in the Word. Tap when you open your Bible and spend time with God without your phone pulling you away. - Sunday services, small groups, and Bible studies. Be present where you are, not where your phone wants to take you. - Lent, Advent, Sabbath. Use Ruach for whole seasons of slowing down with God. FOR CAMPS AND MINISTRIES Ruach gives institutions a tool to support their students' formation, during camp and after. Students pair to a leader's card for the week, keeping phones locked and focus on God. On the last day, they re-pair to their own personal bookmark and take the practice home. The transformation camp creates doesn't have to fade when students leave. The bookmark in their Bible keeps it alive. Whether it's twenty minutes or a whole week, it's the same digital fast. Tap to begin. Tap to end. WHAT RUACH IS NOT Ruach is not a habit tracker. There are no streaks, no points, no shame for missing a day. Ruach collects no data. No accounts. No analytics. No third parties. Everything stays on your device. REQUIREMENTS - An iPhone running iOS 17 or later - A standard NFC bookmark, card, or tag - Permission to use Screen Time.

Screenshots

Control4 screens
Ruach4 screens

Verdict

The call

Control and Ruach are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Control versus Ruach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlRuach
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBhautik AmiparaHAYDEN MITCHELL FRERICHS

Customer experience

Control

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ruach

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Control

No in-app purchases

None

Ruach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ruach free?
Ruach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Control or Ruach have ads?
Neither Control nor Ruach shows ads.

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