Comparison

Reset vs Screen Time Control + Blocker

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

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About

Reset

This app helps you regain control of your screen time by gamifying your digital habits. Earn access to your phone through healthy behaviors like exercise and deep work, and track your progress to build discipline without burnout.

Highlights
  • Earn screen time through effort
  • Track dopamine balance
  • Measure reward system over time
  • Dopamine Age comparison
  • Recovery-based performance metrics
  • Real-time feedback on focus
Features
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Modern apps are engineered to hijack your dopamine. Reset helps you take it back. Reset is a subscription service. The features described below require an active Reset Premium subscription. Track your daily dopamine balance, earn your screen time through effort, and measure how your behavior shapes your reward system over time. Core Mechanic Start every day at zero. Healthy behaviors build dopamine. Dopamine unlocks intentional screen time. No restrictions. No guilt. Just a system. What Makes Reset Different Reset isn't a habit tracker. It's a behavioral operating system. You don't quit your phone. You earn it. Key Features (Reset Premium) Earn Your Screen Time Turn effort into access. Exercise, deep work, and recovery unlock intentional screen time. Dopamine Age See how balanced your reward system is compared to your actual age. Updated weekly based on real behavior. Recovery-Based Performance Sleep, consistency, and late-night usage affect how efficiently you earn. Real-Time Feedback Track your dopamine score and unlocked minutes throughout the day. Pattern Insights Understand when your focus drops and why. Who It's For Built for people who want to: • Improve focus • Reduce reactive scrolling • Build discipline without burnout • Operate at a higher level Closing Your brain adapts to what you reward. Reset it. — — — Subscription Details Reset Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Pricing and available plans are shown in-app before purchase and may vary by region. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Screen Time Control + Blocker

This app helps you reclaim your time by blocking distracting applications. It provides insights into your actual screen time and offers customizable blocking schedules and resistance levels to prevent unwanted usage. Reclaim your focus and achieve your goals with a system designed to support your intentions.

Highlights
  • Accurate screen time tracking
  • Customizable app blocking schedules
  • Adjustable exit resistance levels
  • Session pause functionality
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly usage views
  • Goal-oriented planning
Features
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You finally get a moment to yourself. ScrollDam helps keep it yours, blocking the apps that turn a little scrolling into an evening you never meant to spend on your phone. A few pages. An early night. A little time to feel like yourself again. You've done enough today. Let ScrollDam hold the line. Because you know how it starts. You pick up your phone to check one message. Forty minutes disappear, and you surface without a memory of what you saw. That's not weakness - it's apps built, on purpose, to keep you from letting go. You've tried Screen Time settings, maybe another blocker. Still, here you are - tired, but not giving up. ScrollDam won't talk down to you about willpower or pile on to whatever you're already feeling. You've carried enough of that on your own. What it will do is tell you the truth, gently - your real screen time, not the softer number you'd guess. Then hand you something stronger than willpower: a system that holds the line on the nights you're too tired to fight. FIND OUT WHERE YOU REALLY STAND Before anything else, ScrollDam asks you to guess your daily screen time, then shows you the real number next to it. That gap can be the moment it clicks: you can't change a habit you haven't had a chance to see clearly. TELL US WHAT YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR Better focus. Better sleep. Being present with the people in front of you. A calmer mind. Whatever pulled you here, ScrollDam builds your plan around that one thing. BLOCK YOUR WAY Start a block right now, set it to run on a schedule, or give yourself a daily time budget. Name your sessions whatever means something to you: "Sunday Reset," "Work Hours," "No Phone Before Bed." A gentle reminder before a scheduled block starts gives you a moment to wrap up. Small details, but it's yours. CHOOSE HOW HARD IT SHOULD BE TO QUIT Some days, a five-second breath before you open apps is enough to stop you. Other days it isn't. Set the resistance yourself: a short pause, a phrase you have to type to prove you mean it, or a completely locked session - no early exit, no bargaining with yourself at 1am. A REAL PAUSE, NOT A LOOPHOLE Something urgent comes up mid-block - it happens. When your chosen mode allows it, take a short pause instead of ending the session. Blocking resumes automatically when your pause is over. SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE Day, week, and month views of your screen time, your pickups, and exactly which apps are quietly eating your hours. No shame attached. Just the truth. WHO THIS IS REALLY FOR The person who sits down to work and the phone gets there first. The parent who realizes the walk to school, the bedtime story, almost slipped by unnoticed. The one whose mornings used to mean something quieter - a book, a prayer, silence - before a feed took that time. Anyone who misses sitting with a task or a conversation without a phone demanding attention. You didn't need another app to remind you that you have a problem with your phone. You needed one built to actually hold the dam. PRIVACY, HONESTLY We monitor and block the apps you choose - and that's the extent of it. We don't see what you're doing on your phone. Nothing about your activity ever leaves your device. Feel like yourself again. Your mornings, your evenings, every quiet hour in between - they never stopped being yours. ScrollDam just helps you keep them. Subscription Info: Prices depend on your country and are billed to your Apple ID once you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before your current period ends. You can manage or cancel it anytime from your iTunes account settings. EULA: https://scrolldam.store/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://scrolldam.store/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Reset4 screens
Screen Time Control + Blocker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Screen Time Control + Blocker at 100% against Reset's 35%. Screen Time Control + Blocker also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). Reset's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Reset sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Screen Time Control + Blocker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reset holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reset has 254 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Reset's written reviews are positive against 100% of Screen Time Control + Blocker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reset ships an update every 3 days, Screen Time Control + Blocker every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Reset versus Screen Time Control + Blocker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResetScreen Time Control + Blocker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (254 ratings) — better3.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews35.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings254 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size216 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLife Development LLCFocus Control Studio

Customer experience

Reset

All ratings254 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive35.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative64.7%

Screen Time Control + Blocker

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Reset

Subscriptions9
  • Premium Access$4.997 Days
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Premium Access7 Days trial$12.991 Month
Show 6 more
  • Premium Access2 variants$19.991 Year
  • Premium Access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Premium Access$39.991 Year
  • Premium Access$49.991 Year
  • Premium Access$69.991 Year
4 purchases

Screen Time Control + Blocker

Subscriptions4
  • ScrollDam Access7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • ScrollDam Subs1 Month trial$19.991 Year
  • ScrollDam - Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • ScrollDam - Pro Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Reset free?
Reset is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screen Time Control + Blocker free?
Screen Time Control + Blocker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reset or Screen Time Control + Blocker?
Reset is rated higher. Reset averages 4.6 out of 5 from 254 ratings, while Screen Time Control + Blocker averages 3.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Reset or Screen Time Control + Blocker have ads?
Neither Reset nor Screen Time Control + Blocker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reset or Screen Time Control + Blocker?
Reset ships an update every 3 days, and Screen Time Control + Blocker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Reset was updated on November 10, 2026 and Screen Time Control + Blocker on November 10, 2026.

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