Comparison

App Blocker & Focus vs ScrollPause

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

Head to head
About

App Blocker & Focus

Features
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A planned day beats a busy one. ARCO puts your day plan, your habits, and an app blocker that actually holds into one app. BLOCKED HOURS — AN APP BLOCKER ON A SCHEDULE Pick your distracting apps once and set the hours: work, study, sleep. ARCO blocks those apps automatically, every day, and there is no ignore button. Three strictness modes decide how many short breaks you get; ending a window early costs a deliberate wait, not a tap. The block holds until the block ends — that is the whole point. FOCUS SESSIONS Start a session and your distracting apps lock for exactly that long. Need a moment? Take a real break — apps unlock, then lock again on their own. Strict mode removes the exit entirely. Your countdown lives on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. PLAN YOUR DAY IN SECONDS Time-block tasks and habits onto one clean timeline. Mirror yesterday's structure in one tap and let recurring tasks handle the chores. Schedule Wake up and a real alarm rings at that time, even on silent. TASKS WITH STRUCTURE Organize tasks into projects with priorities. Capture a thought in two taps, flag what is urgent, and check things off from the same list you planned from. Done tasks stay reviewable — bring one back with a tap. HABITS THAT STICK Track daily habits and build streaks day by day. Timed habits run with a live timer; a monthly grid shows every day you showed up. Science says a habit takes about 66 days to lock in — ARCO counts them with you. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES Insights shows your most-used apps, your focus hours, and how often the wall stopped you reaching a blocked app. Gentle check-ins tell you when an app has had your attention too long. Every Monday you get your week in review; every month, the full picture — including your ARCO score. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays on your iPhone. No account, no feed, nothing watching you. Screen Time permissions are processed entirely on-device — ARCO never sees which apps you use. Stop negotiating with your phone. Plan the day, block the noise, and get your time back. SUBSCRIPTION ARCO Pro unlocks unlimited focus sessions, Blocked Hours and the full insights history. Title: ARCO Pro Length: 1 month, or 1 year with a 7 day free trial Price: shown in the app before purchase, in your local currency Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://chupappi7.github.io/arco-app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://chupappi7.github.io/arco-app/privacy.html

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ScrollPause

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ScrollPause puts one moment of friction between you and the app you open without meaning to. Pick the apps that pull you in. The next time you open one, a pause screen appears first. It tells you which app you are opening and what time it is, and asks whether you really meant to. Tap "I'll pass" and the app closes. Tap through twice and you get five minutes, then the pause comes back. That is the whole idea. No streaks, no lectures, no shame. LOCK SCROLLPAUSE ITSELF WITH A PIN Every screen-time tool has the same weak point: the moment you decide to switch it off. Usually that moment arrives late at night, and it wins. Set a four-digit PIN and ScrollPause asks for it before it opens. Your quiet hours, your paused apps, your settings — none of it can be changed by whoever is holding the phone. Including you, at 1am. • The PIN is asked when the app opens, and again after thirty seconds away • Five wrong tries and the waiting starts: thirty seconds, then five minutes, then fifteen, then an hour • Moving the phone's clock forward does not shorten that wait • The app switcher preview is covered, so a glance at your phone shows nothing • Forgot it? A twelve-character recovery code, saved when you set the PIN and readable again from Settings whenever you want What the PIN honestly does and does not do: it guards ScrollPause. It cannot stop anyone from deleting the app, or from switching Screen Time off in iPhone Settings — no app on iOS can do that, and any app that says otherwise is selling you something. WHAT ELSE YOU GET • A pause screen in front of the apps you choose, drawn by iOS itself • Two taps to get in, so going in is a decision rather than a reflex • A count of how often you paused and how often you walked away • A weekly summary in plain words: when you reach for your phone most, which day was hardest, how you compare to last week • A home-screen widget with the minutes you kept today SCROLLPAUSE PRO • Lock the app with a PIN • Pause up to 50 apps instead of 3 • Quiet hours: the hours where there is no five-minute pass at all • Every past week, not just this one Pro is a yearly plan or a one-time lifetime purchase. There is no free trial that renews behind your back. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No server. No ads. No analytics. No third-party code of any kind. The apps you choose are handled by Apple's Screen Time system, which hands ScrollPause an anonymous token for each one — a value the app cannot read or turn back into a name. Your counts live in a database on your iPhone. Your PIN is stored as a one-way hash in the iOS Keychain and never leaves the device. Delete the app and all of it goes with it. Made by PrimeTruth Team. Questions: zenDesign219@gmail.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://primetruthteam.github.io/scrollpause/privacy/

Screenshots

App Blocker & Focus4 screens
ScrollPause4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ScrollPause at 17.0 against App Blocker & Focus's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. App Blocker & Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ScrollPause sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
App Blocker & Focus versus ScrollPause: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApp Blocker & FocusScrollPause
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHINH TRANNguyen Dinh Chung

In-app purchases

3 purchases

App Blocker & Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$149.99
2 purchases

ScrollPause

Subscriptions1
  • ScrollPause Pro — Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • ScrollPause Pro — Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is App Blocker & Focus free?
App Blocker & Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScrollPause free?
ScrollPause is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do App Blocker & Focus or ScrollPause have ads?
Neither App Blocker & Focus nor ScrollPause shows ads.

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