JustPause vs ScreenLocation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JustPause
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Block distracting apps. Complete a quick check. Track real usage. JustPause helps you control distracting apps without deleting them. Choose apps to restrict, complete a short breathing or exercise check, unlock access for a selected time, and track your usage over time. HOW IT WORKS Choose distracting apps: TikTok • Instagram • YouTube Open a restricted app → Complete breathing or exercise → Choose unlock duration → Use the app → Track results BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS Control the apps that consume most of your time. Apply restrictions to social media, entertainment apps, games, and other distracting apps using Screen Time technologies. Supported scenarios: • Single app unlock • Multiple app unlock • Timed access sessions UNLOCK METHODS Breathing Unlock durations: 1 min • 3 min • 5 min • 7 min Exercise Unlock durations: 15 min • 30 min • 1 hour • 2 hours Exercises: • Push-ups • Squats Exercise counting runs locally on-device. No videos are stored. SMART USAGE TIMER Unlock time decreases only while restricted apps are actively used. Example: 15 min unlocked Instagram used for 3 min Remaining access: 12 min Time does not decrease while restricted apps stay closed. Only actual app usage counts. CONTROLLED REMOVAL To remove an app from your restricted list, complete 30 push-ups or squats. Only one restricted app can be removed per day. TRACK RESULTS Monitor: • Restricted app time • Unlock activity • Daily and weekly usage • Progress over time WORKS ON • iPhone • iPad Core restrictions work locally on your device. PREMIUM Premium includes subscription and lifetime access options. Billing is handled by Apple App Store. QUESTIONS? Email: justpause.contact@gmail.com Terms: https://justpause.notion.site/Terms-of-Service-35cef6714d8980caaf91e60cafc7967d Privacy: https://justpause.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-317ef6714d898092a508d247fa78b1a9 EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ScreenLocation
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Block the apps you lose time to, at the places you lose it. ScreenLocation notices the places you go, names them using Apple's own map data, and lets you shut distracting apps off while you are there. Block social media at your desk. Block games at the gym. They come back on their own the moment you leave. You never tag a location, name a place, or confirm anything. SET A LIMIT - Pick a place, pick the apps, done - Those apps are blocked while you are there and released when you leave - Turn a limit off for an afternoon without deleting it - Limits follow the place, not a schedule you have to maintain SEE WHERE IT GOES - Screen time attributed to each place you visit - Ranked, so you can see which places actually cost you - Every day charted by place, over any date range - Every place gets a street address, whether or not a business was identified HOW THE NAMING WORKS Home and Work are worked out purely from your own pattern - where your phone spends its nights, and where it spends weekday working hours. Anywhere else, the app asks Apple's map data what business sits at that spot. If nothing is listed, it uses the street name. It will not guess. If two shops sit side by side and a visit cannot tell them apart, it shows the address and offers you the choice. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no analytics, no ads, no third parties. The only network use is a single map lookup when a brand-new place is first detected, so that it can be given a name. FREE TRIAL, THEN ONE PAYMENT Everything is unlocked for 7 days. After that, tracking and the limits you have already set keep working. Adding new limits and the Trends tab need a one-time $1.99 purchase - kept for good, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. No subscription. WHAT IT NEEDS - "Always" location access, so places can be detected while the app is closed. It uses Apple's low-power visit monitoring, not continuous GPS tracking. - Screen Time access, Apple's own permission for setting app limits and reading usage. A NOTE ON ACCURACY iOS does not give third-party apps a live running total of usage, so per-place minutes are estimated from usage thresholds and will not add up exactly to the figure in Settings. Time spent travelling between places is deliberately left out rather than assigned to whichever place happened to be nearest. Apple's own exact daily total is shown inside the app so you can always compare.
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Verdict
JustPause and ScreenLocation are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. JustPause sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and ScreenLocation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | JustPause | ScreenLocation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ermek Tanikulov | Andrew Meyers |
In-app purchases
JustPause
- JustPause Weekly$0.997 Days
- JustPause Annual$9.991 Year
- JustPause Lifetime$24.99
ScreenLocation
- Trends$1.99









