Comparison

LockIt vs MacKeymapper

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

Head to head
About

LockIt

This app helps you maintain focus and self-control by temporarily blocking distracting apps, websites, and categories. It offers scheduled locks and usage reports to help you understand and improve your habits.

Highlights
  • Quick Lock distractions
  • Schedule recurring locks
  • Usage reports for habits
  • App removal protection
  • Block specific apps and websites
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LockIt is a self-control app designed for the moments when study, focus, or sleep routines start to slip. You can use every feature without limits, and pause only the apps, categories, and websites you choose so a drifting moment does not turn into a lost hour. When you need to stop now, Quick Lock lets you cut off distractions in a few taps. When the same weak hours keep returning, Pattern Lock helps you secure them in advance. Screen Time-based reports show when your focus breaks, which apps pull you away, and how your habits shift over time, so you can reset your rules with more clarity. LockIt is not built to pressure or over-control you. It is built to help you act on the boundaries you set for yourself and keep them steady. Core features - Quick Lock: Pause selected distractions the moment temptation hits. - Pattern Lock: Schedule recurring lock windows for study sessions, bedtime, or other vulnerable hours. - Usage reports: Review total time, top apps, and category patterns to refine your focus habits. - App removal protection: Reduce the chance of breaking your routine during an active lock. Great for moments like these 1. You want to protect a study block before distractions spread. 2. You want to reduce screen time before sleep. 3. You want recurring rules for the hours when self-control is weakest. 4. You want reports that help you adjust your routines instead of guessing. LockIt applies locks only to targets the user explicitly selects. It does not monitor all foreground activity, control the entire device, or position itself as parental control. It works within Apple's Screen Time APIs to help users follow through on study, sleep, and focus boundaries more consistently.

About

MacKeymapper

Features
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Turn your iPhone into a Mac app launcher. Tap any app icon on your iPhone - it opens instantly on your Mac. No mouse, no Dock scrolling, no shortcuts to remember. HOW IT WORKS Install the free companion app on your Mac. MacKeymapper discovers it automatically over Wi-Fi and shows your Mac apps on your iPhone. One tap launches them instantly. FEATURES - Zero-config connection: auto-discovers your Mac on the same Wi-Fi - Portrait and landscape support: 4-column portrait, 5-column landscape grid - Secure: PIN authentication keeps your Mac exclusively yours - Always ready: Mac companion runs quietly in the menu bar FREE / PREMIUM Free: Up to 4 app shortcuts Premium (one-time purchase): - Unlimited app shortcuts - No ads - Custom wallpaper GETTING STARTED 1. Download the free Mac app at mackeymapper.com 2. Launch MacKeymapper on your iPhone 3. Make sure both devices are on the same Wi-Fi 4. Your Mac appears automatically, tap to connect Requires both devices to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. iPhone์ด Mac ์•ฑ ๋Ÿฐ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. iPhone์—์„œ ์•ฑ ์•„์ด์ฝ˜์„ ํƒญํ•˜๋ฉด Mac์—์„œ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์‹คํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์šฐ์Šค ํด๋ฆญ๋„, Dock ์Šคํฌ๋กค๋„, ๋‹จ์ถ•ํ‚ค ์™ธ์šธ ํ•„์š”๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• Mac์— ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ companion ์•ฑ์„ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. MacKeymapper๊ฐ€ Wi-Fi๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ Mac์„ ์ฐพ์•„ iPhone์— ์•ฑ ๋ชฉ๋ก์„ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ด์ฝ˜์„ ํƒญํ•˜๋ฉด Mac์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ - ์ž๋™ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ: ๊ฐ™์€ Wi-Fi์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ณ„๋„ ์„ค์ • ์—†์ด ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ - ์„ธ๋กœ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์™„์ „ ์ง€์›: ์„ธ๋กœ 4์—ด, ๊ฐ€๋กœ 5์—ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋“œ - ๋ณด์•ˆ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ: PIN ์ธ์ฆ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด Mac์—๋งŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋„๋ก ๋ณดํ˜ธ - ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค‘: Mac companion ์•ฑ์ด ๋ฉ”๋‰ด ๋ฐ”์—์„œ ๋ฐฑ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ์‹คํ–‰ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ: ์ตœ๋Œ€ 4๊ฐœ ์•ฑ ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ (์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๊ตฌ๋งค): - ์•ฑ ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ - ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์—†์Œ - ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝํ™”๋ฉด ์ปค์Šคํ„ฐ๋งˆ์ด์ง• ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• 1. mackeymapper.com์—์„œ Mac์šฉ ์•ฑ์„ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋‹ค์šด๋กœ๋“œํ•˜์„ธ์š” 2. iPhone์—์„œ MacKeymapper๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜์„ธ์š” 3. ๋‘ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ™์€ Wi-Fi์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š” 4. Mac์ด ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒญํ•ด์„œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜์„ธ์š” ๋‘ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋™์ผํ•œ Wi-Fi ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

LockIt4 screens
MacKeymapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MacKeymapper at Free against LockIt's $5.99. MacKeymapper also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). LockIt's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

MacKeymapper is free to download; LockIt costs $5.99 up front. MacKeymapper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LockIt asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LockIt ships an update weekly, MacKeymapper daily. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences ยท 3 level
LockIt versus MacKeymapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLockItMacKeymapper
Price$5.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSori GamesJOOBONG LEE

In-app purchases

None

LockIt

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

MacKeymapper

One-time1
  • MacKeymapper Premium$6.99

Questions

Is LockIt free?
LockIt costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MacKeymapper free?
MacKeymapper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LockIt or MacKeymapper have ads?
MacKeymapper shows ads; LockIt does not.
Which is updated more often, LockIt or MacKeymapper?
LockIt ships an update weekly, and MacKeymapper daily. Most recently, LockIt was updated on August 19, 2026 and MacKeymapper on August 22, 2026.

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