Screen time control vs DetoxBrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Screen time control
This app helps you manage your digital life by controlling screen time and blocking distracting applications. It offers features to improve productivity, build better habits, and protect privacy through app locking and usage tracking.
- App lock
- Screen time limits
- Focus mode
- Usage insights
- Custom schedules
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Screenza - Regain Control of Your Digital Life Screenza helps you manage screen time, stay focused, and block distracting apps effortlessly. Whether you want to improve productivity, build better habits, or protect your privacy, Screenza gives you full control. - Powerful App Lock Lock any app instantly to prevent distractions and unwanted access. - Smart Screen Time Control Set daily limits, weekly schedules, or custom lock periods to manage usage. - Focus Mode Create distraction-free sessions and boost productivity. - Usage Insights Track your app activity and understand your digital habits. - Simple & Fast Setup Easy to use, minimal design, and powerful performance. 【Subscription function service】 1. Subscription service: weekly subscription, annual subscription, Lifetime Purchase 2. Subscription price: Please refer to the subscription information in the APP Privacy Policy : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1alW066oGDxs8Kt1X3HYxmswsUSWzynlA/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=114520713497814680118&rtpof=true&sd=true Terms Of Use : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CzQld39jT5e44b4JghRlCQintZ4tnXFs/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=114520713497814680118&rtpof=true&sd=true
DetoxBrain
This app helps you regain control of your digital habits by blocking distracting applications and setting screen time limits. It offers focus sessions, detailed insights into your usage, and privacy-focused architecture that keeps your data on your device.
- Block distracting apps with enforced system-level blocking
- Set daily time and open-count limits per app
- Recurring schedules for bedtime, work, and mornings
- Timed sessions with growing delays before app access
- Focus sessions for uninterrupted work or study
- Detailed usage insights and streaks
- Privacy-first architecture with data stored locally
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You didn't mean to spend two hours on that app. DetoxBrain puts a moment of friction between the reflex and the scroll — and makes blocking that actually holds. 1. Block distracting apps - Pick the apps that pull you in. DetoxBrain shields them — enforced by your phone's own system, so it works even when DetoxBrain isn't open, even offline, even after a restart. - Multiple independent block groups: your bedtime rules don't have to fight your work rules. - A "Fix blocking" button and self-healing shields, because a blocker that silently stops blocking is worse than no blocker. 2. Screen-time limits that fit a real life - Daily time budgets per app, plus open-count limits — for the apps you don't spend long in, you just open forty times. - Recurring schedules: bedtime, mornings, work hours. - A pause and an intention prompt before you go in, with a delay that grows as the day's opens add up: 10 seconds, then 30, then a minute. - Need in anyway? Take a timed session — 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes — and it re-locks itself. A decision, not a slip. 3. Focus sessions - Start a 25, 50, or custom-length session. Your blocked apps stay blocked; the timer keeps running in the background. - Finish, and your streak grows. 4. Insights & streaks — free, all of it - Today's total, per-app breakdown, pickups, yesterday's comparison, a 7-day chart, a calendar heatmap. - Distraction-only mode: only the apps you chose count. Maps, music and messages don't get held against you. - A brain-health score with real long-term progression — yesterday's discipline doesn't get erased overnight. 5. Private by default — not as a promise, as an architecture Your usage data never leaves your device. Not "we don't look at it" — we can't. Apple's Screen Time framework confines your screen-time data to a sandbox on your phone, and we built no server that could receive it. Your app list, your blocklist, how long you spend where: all of it stays on the device. Nothing to sell, nothing to leak. No account required to use any of it. 6. Premium The free tier is meant to be genuinely useful — full stats, three blocked apps, the friction layer, streaks, and your emergency pass are free forever. Upgrade for: - Block as many apps as you want, organized into separate groups — and block a whole category, like Social, in one tap - Strict mode: once a focus session starts, you can't switch it off from inside the app. Your weekly emergency pass still works, and "Remove all shields" is always there — it just takes two hours to land. - Custom shield screens - Detailed weekly insights Monthly, annual (with a 7-day free trial) and lifetime plans. No full-screen ads, ever — an app about protecting your attention has no business interrupting it. 7. There's always a way out An emergency pass, once a week. A "Reset all shields" button that's never behind a paywall. If your subscription lapses, everything you set up keeps running exactly as it was — nothing is switched off, nothing is deleted. To change it you'd come back to Premium or trim down to the free tier, but the way out is never for sale. Getting locked out of your own phone is a bug, not a feature. Built with care by a solo developer in Hanoi. Email me — I actually reply: support@detoxbrain.web.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DetoxBrain at none against Screen time control's shown. DetoxBrain also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Screen time control's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Screen time control sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and DetoxBrain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Screen time control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DetoxBrain has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Screen time control ships an update fortnightly, DetoxBrain every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Screen time control | DetoxBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 少杰 李 | Duc Hoan Nguyen |
Customer experience
Screen time control
DetoxBrain
In-app purchases
Screen time control
- screen time control - week3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- screen time control - 1st_week7 Days trial$1.997 Days
- screen time control - year3 Days trial$9.991 Year
DetoxBrain
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$69.99
- Premium Lifetime$119.99
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