Comparison

Tonic vs ShareDrop.org

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

Head to head
About

Tonic

This app helps you build good habits by making them unlock your other apps. It allows you to set limits on distracting apps and rewards productive behavior. You can customize rules to integrate with your existing life and achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Habit-based app unlocking
  • Customizable screen time limits
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • Flexible rule setting
  • Productive minute banking
  • Escalating pause feature
Features
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Your phone works in the wrong order. Tonic isn't just another app blocker: your good habits unlock your apps, and the ones that only need boundaries get limits that fit. You bought the books. You downloaded Duolingo. You signed up for the meditation app. Tonic puts those things first, and lets your phone cooperate with the life you're already building. HOW IT WORKS Set any app as a reward for your good habits. Tonic tracks what would be too hard to log yourself: your progress in apps like Kindle or Duolingo, calories burned, whether you meditated this morning, even whether you've gotten outside. Require your habits each day, or bank productive minutes to spend later. For apps that only need boundaries, Tonic adapts to the problem: screen time limits by hours or by visits, cooldowns between sessions, or moments of pause that escalate the more you reach for it. You choose what locked looks like: a gentle nudge toward the good thing, a strict wall, or a pause that grows each time you haven't earned it. WORKS WITH THE APPS YOU ALREADY LOVE Reading, workouts, meditation, steps, sunlight, and sleep come straight from Apple Health and your Apple Watch, or from time spent in the productive apps you choose. No logging, no proof photos, no check-ins. And the unlock is real: when your habit counts, the shield lifts on its own. You don't open Tonic to prove anything or unlock anything by hand. Finish your reading, and your apps are simply open when you reach for them. WHAT YOU CAN SET UP Every app is a different problem. Rules can look like: "Don't let me into social media for longer than five minutes at a time until my watch has registered 20 minutes of sunlight." "Make it harder each time I reach for Instagram if I've used it more than Duolingo today." "After 5 visits on the weekend, make me pause when I reach for Slack or Teams." "When I reach for social media in the morning, redirect my phone to my journaling app." "Hard block mobile games until I've worked out three times in the last week, then give me an hour each earned day." YOURS TO CONTROL Tonic is self-directed and built for adults. You pick the apps, you set the rules, and you can change them whenever you want. No account. No parent. No lock you can't open. Your habits stay on your device. Tonic never sees which apps you chose, and your rules never leave your phone. Pick one app that gets in your way and one habit you keep meaning to do. Start there. A tonic for your habits. Break the bad, build the good. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tonichabits.com/privacy

About

ShareDrop.org

Features
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ShareDrop.org transfers large files from one device to another the private way — directly, over an encrypted peer-to-peer link, with no account and nothing parked on a server. HOW IT WORKS • Open the app on both devices. One taps Send and picks files; the other scans the QR code (or types the short code). • Your files travel straight between the two devices over an encrypted WebRTC channel. • When a direct link isn't possible, an encrypted relay forwards the packets — it can't read them and keeps nothing. The app shows you which mode you're on, in real time. WHAT YOU CAN SEND • Photos and videos, straight from your photo library • Music, straight from your library • Any file — documents, audio, archives BUILT FOR PRIVACY • No account, no sign-up, no profile. • We don't store your files — there is no upload endpoint on our servers at all. • Session data expires on its own; there's nothing to look up after a transfer ends. • Your files are never collected and never used for advertising: file names, contents and checksums stay between your two devices and never reach us or anyone else. SHAREDROP PRO The free app is supported by ads. Pro removes them completely — a Pro device makes no ad requests at all, rather than just hiding them. Payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. WORKS WITH ANY DEVICE The other device doesn't need this app — any modern browser at app.sharedrop.org can send and receive. Move files from your iPhone to a laptop, a desktop, or another phone, without cables and without a cloud account. HONEST BY DESIGN We don't claim files "never touch a server" unconditionally. In relay mode, encrypted packets do pass through a relay — and the app tells you so. The same standard applies everywhere else: the free app shows ads, Pro removes them for real, and no claim on this page goes further than what the app actually does. Not affiliated with the earlier open-source ShareDrop or Snapdrop projects. Privacy policy: https://sharedrop.org/privacy-policy/ Terms of service: https://sharedrop.org/terms/

Screenshots

Tonic4 screens
ShareDrop.org4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShareDrop.org at none against Tonic's 2. Tonic's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tonic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ShareDrop.org asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tonic ships an update every 4 days, ShareDrop.org every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tonic versus ShareDrop.org: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTonicShareDrop.org
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSets Studio LLCAI4U LIMITED

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tonic

Subscriptions2
  • Tonic Unlimited7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Tonic Unlimited7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

ShareDrop.org

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tonic free?
Tonic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShareDrop.org free?
ShareDrop.org is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tonic or ShareDrop.org have ads?
ShareDrop.org shows ads; Tonic does not.
Which is updated more often, Tonic or ShareDrop.org?
Tonic ships an update every 4 days, and ShareDrop.org every 8 days. Most recently, Tonic was updated on October 17, 2026 and ShareDrop.org on October 15, 2026.

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