ValidTill vs Blackout Mode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ValidTill
Organize and track gift cards, coupons, and vouchers to prevent them from expiring. Receive timely reminders and easily access important details. Keep your savings organized with local storage and a clean interface.
- Manage coupons, gift cards, and vouchers
- Record value, expiry date, and notes
- Mark items as starred or used
- Search and sort items
- Expiry reminder notifications
- Home screen widget for quick access
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ValidTill helps you keep track of coupons, gift cards, and vouchers before they expire. Store the details that matter, stay organized, and get timely reminders so your savings do not go unused. Features: • Add and manage coupons, gift cards, and vouchers in one place • Record amount or value, expiry date, notes, links, source, and card number • Mark items as starred or used for better organization • Search and sort your coupons quickly • Receive local reminder notifications before expiry • View important coupon information from the home screen widget ValidTill is designed for simple everyday tracking with a clean interface and local storage. Your data stays on your device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://validtill.oaky.ltd/en/privacy/
Blackout Mode
Instantly dim your screen, silence all audio, and disable your camera flash with a single tap. Perfect for dark environments like concerts or cinemas, ensuring you don't disturb others.
- Screen blackout
- Volume zero
- Flash locked off
- Single-tap activation
- In-app camera with disabled flash
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You know that person. Phone blazing in a dark cinema. Ringtone cutting through a piano concerto. Flash firing at a concert. Don't be that person. Blackout is a single-tap utility that does three things the moment you activate it: Dims down your screen brightness, silences your volume to zero, and locks your camera flash permanently off within the in-app camera. No settings to dig through. No toggles to remember. Just tap, and disappear into the dark. What Blackout does: Screen blackout. No blinding brightness in the dark, no light pollution for the people around you. Volume zero. Drops to silent instantly. No surprise notifications, no accidental sounds, no embarrassing ringtones mid-performance. Flash locked off. Built-in camera keeps flash disabled permanently. Shoot the moment freely without blinding anyone around you. Made for: Concerts, live music, classical performances, theatres, cinemas, comedy shows, sports events, opera, ballet, lectures, religious services, anywhere you need to be invisible. One tap. That's it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Blackout Mode at daily against ValidTill's every 3 weeks. Blackout Mode also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). ValidTill's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. ValidTill sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Blackout Mode sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ValidTill against 5.0 for Blackout Mode. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackout Mode has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ValidTill ships an update every 3 weeks, Blackout Mode daily. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ValidTill | Blackout Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 一晟 沈 | Alp Avanoglu |
Customer experience
ValidTill
Blackout Mode
In-app purchases
ValidTill
- Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$14.99
Blackout Mode
- Unlock Blackout Mode$4.99





