AppLocker vs Craving Cat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AppLocker
This utility app helps you protect your privacy by locking individual applications and sensitive content. It offers customizable rules, multiple authentication methods like fingerprint and facial recognition, and prevents unauthorized app installations or purchases.
- App locking for privacy
- Customizable time/location rules
- Fingerprint and facial recognition
- Prevent app installation/deletion
- Website blacklist/whitelist
- Local data encryption
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Protecting privacy has never been so simple The invisible lock is a privacy and security tool specifically designed for iOS. It helps you lock apps, lock sensitive content, and make your phone more secure and reassuring Key functional highlights - Privacy protection: Restrict/lock selected apps to establish a private space. - Application management: Flexible management of application groups. - Custom rules: Set time periods or locations to lock or restrict applications. - Safe and reliable: Provides fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, and password lock protection. - More restrictions: prohibiting the installation/deletion of apps, banning in-app purchases, requiring passwords for payments, and implementing website blacklist and whitelist filtering, etc. We deeply understand each user's desire for privacy, and thus have developed a robust application protection system. Privacy First: All data is encrypted locally and not uploaded to the cloud, ensuring that privacy-sensitive applications are truly private Efficient and lightweight: With an extremely small application size, it does not affect the phone's operating speed Humanized design: A simple and user-friendly interface that even novices can quickly get started with Comprehensive protection: Supports locking all application types, ensuring no privacy-sensitive applications are overlooked Multiple authentication methods: password, fingerprint, and facial recognition, allowing for flexible combinations and enhanced security. For bank payments, app access, or private files, the privacy lock ensures that only you can access them, providing peace of mind when using your phone - Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DZHhpbWlYWVFOQ2x5 - Premium membership terms: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DZGpvUXpZc0VOc0RN - Refund: The subscription fee for the current period is non-refundable. Please ensure that the functional services meet your needs. - Unsubscribe: If you need to cancel the renewal, please operate the cancellation at least 24 hours in advance. You can cancel it by following these steps: open System Settings - click on Apple ID - click on Subscriptions - select the AppLock subscription, and then cancel the subscription.
Craving Cat
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Craving Cat helps you interrupt compulsive app use before it turns into another long scroll. Instead of guilt or shame, it gives you a gentle pause right when you need it: when you are about to reopen the apps you keep getting stuck in. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Choose the apps that are hardest to stop • Set a daily total limit and a single-session limit for each app • Use Apple's Screen Time protection to block impulse re-entry • Long-press the cat for a brief breathing reset • Keep setup free, then unlock native protection with trial, monthly, or one-time access WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT Craving Cat is built for digital wellbeing, not self-judgment. No shame-driven charts. No productivity theater. Just a real pause, a softer visual language, and a breathing moment that helps you step out of autopilot. BEST FOR • Social media doomscrolling • Repeated impulse opens • Late-night overuse • People who want a kinder app blocker Craving Cat uses Apple's Screen Time APIs. You choose what to manage, and your data stays on-device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AppLocker at 16 against Craving Cat's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. AppLocker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Craving Cat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AppLocker ships an update every 3 weeks, Craving Cat every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | AppLocker | Craving Cat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 岸鹏 高 | 皓东 马 |
In-app purchases
AppLocker
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Annual Premium3 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Tea for author$0.99
- Lifetime$19.99
Craving Cat
- Craving Cat Monthly$4.991 Month
- Craving Cat Lifetime$29.99









