Comparison

Orient vs Halff

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

Head to head
About

Orient

This app guides users toward a healthier phone relationship through behavioral psychology and ACT principles. It offers interactive tools to interrupt unhealthy habits and build momentum towards personal goals, rather than just blocking apps.

Highlights
  • Interactive 'Stop Distraction' sequence
  • Build momentum with streaks
  • Cultivate self-awareness
  • Enhance impulse control
  • App blocking functionality
Features
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Orient helps you build a healthier relationship with your phone using behavioral psychology and ACT. Instead of relying on willpower or merely app blocking, you’ll learn to interrupt unhealthy habits and make choices that align with what matters most to you. What you get: - Interactive "Stop Distraction" sequence based on ACT (acceptance and commitment training) to help you eliminate distraction and go toward what truly matters to you. - Streaks that help you build momentum - App blocking that helps you cultivate self awareness & impulse control *All features described above require a subscription.* Terms of Use: https://theiliumgroup.net/terms Privacy Policy: https://theiliumgroup.net/privacy

About

Halff

This app helps you track how you spend your time by prompting you every 30 minutes to categorize your activities as valuable or a waste. It provides daily, weekly, and monthly reports to visualize your time usage and identify trends.

Highlights
  • Categorize half-hour time slots
  • Customizable value/waste categories
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly reports
  • Reminder window customization
  • Sync with web and Mac dashboard
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Halff is the honest audit of your day. Your day is 48 half hours. Every 30 minutes, Halff asks what you just did. One tap: it paid you back, or it cost you. No timer to start, nothing to stop. By evening you know where your hours went: a score out of 100, your productive hours, your wasted hours, and what ate your day. WHAT YOU GET • A reminder every 30 minutes, only between the two hours you choose. Never at night. • One tap to score, with your own categories: deep work, content, prospecting, meetings, sport, sleep, and the ones that cost you. • A daily score out of 100, built from four parts: value ratio, volume, completion, streak. • The streak: one scored half hour a day keeps it going. • Your last 30 days, your week and your month, your typical day, your focus blocks, your records. • 18 widgets, three of them on the lock screen. • Sleep read automatically from Apple Health. • Halff for Mac: a light under the notch that asks every half hour. Same account, always in sync. • A discipline report every 30 days. Halff doesn't block anything. It shows you the truth of your day, half hour by half hour. That's enough to change it. Free trial available. Subscription billed through your Apple account, cancel anytime in your settings. Terms: https://halff.io/cgu.html Privacy: https://halff.io/confidentialite.html

Screenshots

Orient4 screens
Halff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Halff at none against Orient's 2. Halff also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orient sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Halff asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orient ships an update weekly, Halff every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Orient versus Halff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrientHalff
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe ilium group LLCUGO STEFANO DI SARIO MULLER

Customer experience

Orient

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Halff

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Orient

Subscriptions2
  • Orient Monthly Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Orient Yearly Plan7 Days trial$44.991 Year
None

Halff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orient free?
Orient is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Halff free?
Halff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orient or Halff have ads?
Neither Orient nor Halff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orient or Halff?
Orient ships an update weekly, and Halff every 5 days. Most recently, Orient was updated on October 9, 2026 and Halff on October 11, 2026.

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