Couples Screen Time vs StreakFlame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Couples Screen Time
This app transforms your to-do list into screen time. Complete tasks to earn logs, which you can then use to extend your allowed usage of distracting apps. When your screen time runs out, those apps are blocked until you earn more time by being productive.
- Task and habit creation with custom rewards
- Screen time management with app blocking
- Interactive flame companion with mood states
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Customizable screen time limits and app selection
- Private by design, no cloud sync or tracking
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Screen time for couples. Cut it together. Burn is a screen time app for couples. Invite your partner, share one pool of screen time, and share whichever to-do lists you like. Finish tasks to earn logs and feed them to Burn, a little flame you keep lit together. Doomscroll the pool dry and both of your distracting apps lock. No willpower required. Just someone in your corner, and a flame worth keeping lit. BURN DUO: SHARE IT WITH YOUR PARTNER (FREE) • One shared screen time pool, with a daily goal either of you can change • Share any to-do list: groceries, chores, date night plans. Everything else stays private • Either of you ticks a shared task off, it's done for both • One log pile: tasks either of you finishes refuel you both • See your partner's day: how much they burned, and where it went by the app groups they name • Get a heads-up when your partner adds or finishes a shared task • One flame, one streak. It breaks the moment either of you burns the last minute • Own Burn+? Your partner gets it too while you're in a Duo • Syncs through your own iCloud. No Burn account, no sign-in HOW IT WORKS • Start each day with a screen time budget • Scrolling the apps you pick burns through it, minute by minute • Hit zero and those apps lock • Finish tasks to earn logs • Feed logs to Burn: every log buys 10 more minutes Rather go solo? Burn works just as well on your own. GET STUFF DONE • Give every task its own log reward, so big jobs pay more • Daily, weekday, or custom repeating tasks for your habits • Plan Today, Tomorrow, and the days ahead • Sort tasks into color-coded categories, private or shared • Shake to undo if you tap too soon A FLAME WORTH KEEPING LIT • Burn reacts to your day: happy when you're on track, worried when time runs low, out cold when it's gone • Tap, pet, and drag logs in to feed him • Dozes off at night with a sleepy face • Keep Burn lit all day to build your streak YOU'RE IN CONTROL • Choose exactly which apps and categories burn fuel • Everything else stays open • Set your own daily budget • No account, no sign-in, no ads. BURN+ (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • 13 flame colors, each with a matching app icon • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including a task list you can check off without opening the app • Live Activity: watch your fuel count down in the Dynamic Island • Low fuel warnings before your apps lock • Screen Time Insights: see which apps ate your time, by day, week, and month Burn uses Apple's Screen Time to track and limit only the apps you choose. What you do in them never leaves your device. In a Duo, your partner sees only your totals, the app groups you name and your shared lists, synced through your iCloud.
StreakFlame
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One tap. On your widget. Private by design. Streakflame turns every habit into a flame. Check in once a day and the flame grows — miss a day and it's simply a fresh start. No guilt, no red warnings, no social feeds. Just you and the streak. WHY STREAKFLAME • One tap to check in — in the app, on a widget, a notification, the Live Activity, Control Center, with Siri, or from your wrist. • The flame grows with you — five visual stages from first spark (day 1) to blue fire (day 100). • Habits on your schedule — daily, specific weekdays, or any 3 times a week. Off-days can never break a streak. • Count it or time it — "8 glasses of water" fills up tap by tap; "10 minutes of reading" runs on a built-in timer with a Live Activity on your lock screen. • Streak shields — earned by consistency, spent automatically, so one missed day doesn't erase weeks of work. • Fix any day — tap any past day in the calendar to correct history. Forgot to log Tuesday? Tuesday is yours to fix. • Pause a habit — travel, illness, rest. Paused days don't break your streak and don't count against you. • Apple Watch — every habit, its flame and progress on your wrist, plus watch-face complications. Check in with no phone nearby. • Deadline mode — leave a habit unchecked and a gentle countdown to midnight appears on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Stats that stay kind — completion rate, best weekday, and a year of check-ins as a heat map. • iCloud sync (Pro) — your habits and streaks in your own iCloud, so a new phone or a reinstall brings everything back. • Apple Health (Pro) — link a habit to steps, exercise, mindful minutes, workouts, or water and the day checks itself off. • Privacy lock — require Face ID or your passcode to open the app. • Gentle by design — a broken streak says "Fresh start today", never "you failed". PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits stay on your device — and are synced only to your own iCloud if you turn sync on, where Apple encrypts them and we can't read them. No account, no sign-up, no server of ours, no ads, ever. Health data never leaves your device and is never shared. Streakflame does collect anonymous usage and crash data so a one-person team can tell what to fix and what to build next. It is never linked to your identity, never used to track you across apps, and you can turn it off in Settings at any time. STREAKFLAME PRO — SUBSCRIBE, OR BUY IT ONCE Free includes 3 habits with every schedule, goal type, widget, stat and export. Pro removes the habit limit and adds iCloud sync, Apple Health auto-complete, five flame palettes and five app icons. Pro Monthly and Pro Annual each start with one month free. Prefer to pay once? Pro Lifetime is a single purchase with no subscription. Every option unlocks exactly the same features, and current prices for your region are shown in the app before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://streakflame.web.app/privacy Built for iPhone and Apple Watch with interactive widgets, Live Activities, and the Dynamic Island.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StreakFlame at weekly against Couples Screen Time's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Couples Screen Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and StreakFlame sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Couples Screen Time ships an update every 2 weeks, StreakFlame weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Couples Screen Time | StreakFlame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Nguyen | Asgar Amrahov |
In-app purchases
Couples Screen Time
- Burn+$9.99
StreakFlame
- Streakflame Pro$6.99
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