Uglify Screen Time vs Deny
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Uglify Screen Time
This app helps you regain control of your digital habits by making social media feeds less engaging. It limits your daily time on selected apps, progressively degrading their visual appeal until they become uninviting.
- Progressive visual degradation of apps
- Daily time limits for selected apps
- Works with major social media platforms
- Dynamic Island and Lock Screen integration
- Screen time analytics
- Customizable time settings
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Your feed was built by thousands of engineers to be impossible to leave. Uglify makes it boring. Pick the apps to watch. You get 15 minutes a day in full color, shared across them. Once they're spent, those apps get worse in three steps: 1) Flat Gray. Color is gone. Your feed looks like a newspaper from 1987. 2) Dull Dimmed. The screen darkens, like watching through fog. 3) Nuclear. Colors invert. Genuinely unpleasant. That's the point. » Works with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Threads and Pinterest » Your minutes in the Dynamic Island or on the Lock Screen » Optional mute when the filters kick in » No streaks. No shame. No guilt. UGLIFY PRO »»» Choose your free time, when each level starts, and when your day resets »»» THE DAY: daily, weekly, and monthly screen time analytics »»» Per-app and per-session breakdowns You are not the problem. The platforms are. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Deny
This app helps you regain focus by blocking distracting applications. It requires a friend's approval to unlock apps, fostering accountability and making screen time limits stick. Take back your attention with a collaborative approach to digital well-being.
- Block distracting apps and sites
- Schedule app blocking
- Daily time limits for apps
- Friend approval required for unlocks
- Temporary unlock with countdown
- Collaborative progress tracking
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Deny locks the apps that waste your time — and puts a friend in charge of the key. Most screen-time apps fail for one reason: the moment you want back in, you just tap "ignore limit." Deny removes that escape hatch. Block your most distracting apps, and when you want to unlock them, you have to ask a friend to approve it. HOW IT WORKS • Build block groups — pick the apps and sites to lock, on a schedule or a daily time limit. • Stay locked. Blocked apps are shielded by iOS, so there's no sneaking past them. • Allow temporary unlocks — give yourself a set number of minutes, with a live countdown showing exactly when apps re-lock. • Bring in friends. Connect with an invite code, then ask a friend for screen time. They approve or deny — you stay accountable. • See each other's progress and keep one another honest. WHY DENY • Friends make it stick. Accountability beats willpower. • Honest by design — no one-tap "ignore." • Private. Your data is yours; we never sell it or use it for ads. Deny uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) features to block apps on your own device. Take back your attention — together.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deny at none against Uglify Screen Time's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Uglify Screen Time sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Deny asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Uglify Screen Time against 5.0 for Deny. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Uglify Screen Time | Deny |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MAKSIM HORBIKAU | StepAI K.K. |
Customer experience
Uglify Screen Time
Deny
In-app purchases
Uglify Screen Time
- Uglify Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Uglify Pro Annual$29.991 Year
Deny
No in-app purchases









