Cascade vs Unracked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cascade
This app helps you regain focus by blocking chosen applications and offering mindful exercises when you feel the urge to open them. It allows for scheduled routines, social accountability with friends, and provides weekly progress reports. Additional features include meditations and a course on digital habits.
- App blocking
- Mindful exercises
- Scheduled routines
- Social focus sessions
- Weekly progress reports
- Meditation library
- Lock screen widget
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Cascade blocks the apps you pick, for as long as you pick. The rest of the app is about the moment you want to open them anyway. WHEN THE URGE COMES The feeling you name decides what you get: a short breathing exercise, a small thing to do away from the screen, or a question to think about. Each takes a minute or two. None of them lead back to the feed. ROUTINES Set the days and hours once. Sessions start and end on their own, even when the app is closed. ALWAYS ON Always locked keeps the apps you choose closed until you remove them. Check-ins add a short pause before an impulsive open. FRIENDS Add friends with a code. In the Progress tab you see each other's focus time, longest session and streak. You can invite friends into a focus session, or into a shared routine so everyone focuses at the same hours with their own apps. Every finished session also counts as a vote for the person you are becoming, and your friends can see your votes too. THE WEEKLY LETTER At the end of every week Cascade writes you a short letter: which days you focused, why you stopped, what you finished. Past letters stay in an archive. ALSO INSIDE Short meditations for focus, calm and sleep. Rewire, a course on why feeds are so hard to put down. A lock screen widget and Live Activities for your sessions. PRIVACY The list of apps you block stays on your phone. Blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time framework, on your device. We never see your apps. What you type in Ask Cascade goes to our server to be answered. PRICE Free: unlimited Zen sessions, one meditation, one Rewire lesson. Pro unlocks everything else, as a subscription or a one time purchase. The yearly plan starts with a 7 day free trial. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Unracked
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You've deleted the app before. You had it back by that night. Unracked is the blocker you can't talk your way out of. You choose the apps and the hours. After that it isn't up to you anymore. Force quit it. Restart your phone. The block holds. THREE WAYS TO BLOCK Focus sessions. One tap buys you 15 minutes, two hours, or the rest of the afternoon. Schedules. Pick the hours you always lose. Weekday mornings, dinner, after 11pm. The block arms itself whether or not you open the app. Locations. Blocking starts when you walk into the library and lifts when you leave. Your desk, a classroom, a gym, home. WHY THIS ONE WORKS WHEN THE OTHERS DIDN'T Most blockers give you an out. Two taps, a just-this-once, and forty minutes are gone. Unracked closes the out. That's the entire product. Survives force quits and restarts Runs in the background, so there's nothing to remember and nothing to start Live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen A streak that only counts sessions you finished NOBODY SEES YOUR DATA, INCLUDING US No account. No email. Nothing to sign into. Built on Apple's Screen Time API, which hands us anonymous tokens instead of app names. We couldn't tell you which apps you blocked if we wanted to. Locations are matched on your device and never leave it. Unracked uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) to block apps on your own device. SUBSCRIPTION Unracked Premium unlocks all blocking: $9.99 per month or $49.99 per year, starting with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage your subscription or turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://parallel-groot.github.io/unracked-legal/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cascade at 17.6 against Unracked's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Cascade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Unracked sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Cascade | Unracked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 321 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IDIL CIVEZ | CARLOS EMILI CORTES MARTINEZ |
In-app purchases
Cascade
- Monthly Pro14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Pro14 Days trial$24.991 Year
Unracked
- Unracked Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Unracked Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year









