Comparison

Cascade vs Panezo

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

Head to head
About

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 you to set up automated focus routines and track your progress with friends.

Highlights
  • App blocking
  • Mindful exercises
  • Customizable routines
  • Social focus tracking
  • Weekly progress reports
  • 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/

About

Panezo

Features
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Panezo puts two websites on one iPhone screen, one above the other, with a notebook built in. Read in one pane while you write, search or compare in the other — no more switching back and forth between tabs and apps. NEW IN 1.3 • Tabs in each pane and a floating mini browser (Panezo Pro): move it, resize it from the corner, go full screen, or shrink it to a bubble while the audio keeps playing. • A new Liquid Glass look on iOS 26 and later, plus themes: Automatic, Panezo, Light and Dark. • Page tools with Apple Intelligence, such as summaries. They run on the device and only on supported devices and languages. • One-page mode with a bottom address bar, and a list of your downloads. • Link menu: open a link in a new tab or in the floating browser (Panezo Pro). • Keyboard and edge-to-edge screen fixes, and many small improvements. FREE AND PANEZO PRO Free: two panes, themes, one-page mode, downloads, favorites, history, 2 saved pairs, 3 notes, 3 Compare runs and 3 summaries. Panezo Pro adds tabs in each pane, the floating mini browser, and unlimited saved pairs, notes, Compare runs and summaries. Panezo Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. Details are shown in the app before you subscribe. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. EVERYDAY USE • Compare two products, hotels or recipes side by side • Read an article above and look up words or places below • Follow a map while you check opening hours or reviews • Study with your source above and your notes below • Keep a quick Scratch note beside any website FOR WORK • Keep two sources open while you research • Write notes beside the page you are reading, then save them to Notebook • Compare the readable text of two pages and keep the findings you choose in Research • Save a workspace — both pages, pane types and layout — and restore it later • Use two web-based work services at the same time BUILT FOR ONE HAND AND A SMALL SCREEN • Drag the divider to resize, swap the panes, or focus on one pane • Each pane has its own back, forward and reload, and scrolls and types independently • Controls stay out of the way until you tap a pane's small handle YOUR WORK STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE • Scratch notes, Notebook, Research, favorites, history and saved workspaces are stored locally • No Panezo account, no ads, no analytics • A Scratch note saved to Notebook stays linked: later edits update the same note Good to know: Panezo shows websites and its own native notes; it does not embed other installed apps. Website sign-in, video and downloads depend on each website. Both panes share website data such as cookies. Panezo is not affiliated with the websites you visit. Browsing connects to the websites you choose; it is not anonymous browsing. https://ilyasaalmadani.github.io/panezo-site/privacy.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Made by PT JIJI LABS DIGITAL

Screenshots

Cascade4 screens
Panezo4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cascade and Panezo are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Cascade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Panezo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cascade versus Panezo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCascadePanezo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size322 MB10 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperIDIL CIVEZPT JIJI LABS DIGITAL

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cascade

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro14 Days trial$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Panezo

Subscriptions2
  • Panezo Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Panezo Pro Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Cascade free?
Cascade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Panezo free?
Panezo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cascade or Panezo have ads?
Neither Cascade nor Panezo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cascade or Panezo?
Cascade ships an update every 2 weeks, and Panezo every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cascade was updated on November 5, 2026 and Panezo on November 13, 2026.

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