Scrollar vs ScreenLocation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scrollar
This app helps you manage your phone usage by setting daily screen time goals and budgets for app groups. It offers gentle nudges and multiple blocking methods to reduce distractions, all while keeping your data private on your device.
- Daily screen time goals
- App group budgeting
- Limit blocking
- Scheduled blocking
- CEO Mode focus sessions
- Privacy-focused design
- Progress tracking
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We’ve all been there: You pick up your phone to check one thing… and suddenly an hour is gone. You tell yourself “I’ll cut back tomorrow.” But tomorrow never comes. SCROLLAR WORKS - BECAUSE IT DOESN’T SHAME YOU No guilt trips. No scary warnings. Just a simple idea: give your attention a daily budget — like money. Spend it how you want, just a little more intentionally. YOUR DAILY SCREEN TIME GOAL Start by setting a daily limit based on how you actually use your phone — not some unrealistic target. Every minute you save helps your Pixel Pig grow, evolving through 25 levels from a tiny piglet to a golden bank. CREATE YOUR APP GROUPS, YOUR WAY Organize apps in a way that makes sense to you — social, streaming, gaming, or anything else. Each group gets its own shared daily budget, so you can be strict where it matters and flexible where it doesn’t. THREE WAYS TO BLOCK DISTRACTIONS 1. Limit Blocking Go over a group’s limit? Those apps lock until tomorrow. You set the rules — Scrollar enforces them. 2. Scheduled Blocking Create boundaries that fit your life. No social media during work. No scrolling before bed. Set it once and forget it. 3. CEO Mode Need to focus right now? Start a session that blocks all your tracked apps until you’re done. No shortcuts. GENTLE NUDGES, NOT GUILT TRIPS Get a heads-up right before you hit your limit. No pressure. No shame. Just a moment to decide if you want to keep going. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES Clear, simple insights show your daily and weekly habits. Spot what’s taking your time, track your streaks, and watch your progress build. 100% PRIVATE No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. Everything stays on your device — exactly where it belongs. Scrollar doesn’t judge you. It doesn’t try to control you. It just helps you notice — and makes it easier to put your phone down. Built for people who’ve tried Screen Time and gave up. Built for people who want to scroll less, but don’t know how to start. Built for you. Terms of Use: https://ntudevelop.github.io/Scrollar/ Privacy Policy: https://ntudevelop.github.io/Scrollar/
ScreenLocation
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Block the apps you lose time to, at the places you lose it. ScreenLocation notices the places you go, names them using Apple's own map data, and lets you shut distracting apps off while you are there. Block social media at your desk. Block games at the gym. They come back on their own the moment you leave. You never tag a location, name a place, or confirm anything. SET A LIMIT - Pick a place, pick the apps, done - Those apps are blocked while you are there and released when you leave - Turn a limit off for an afternoon without deleting it - Limits follow the place, not a schedule you have to maintain SEE WHERE IT GOES - Screen time attributed to each place you visit - Ranked, so you can see which places actually cost you - Every day charted by place, over any date range - Every place gets a street address, whether or not a business was identified HOW THE NAMING WORKS Home and Work are worked out purely from your own pattern - where your phone spends its nights, and where it spends weekday working hours. Anywhere else, the app asks Apple's map data what business sits at that spot. If nothing is listed, it uses the street name. It will not guess. If two shops sit side by side and a visit cannot tell them apart, it shows the address and offers you the choice. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no analytics, no ads, no third parties. The only network use is a single map lookup when a brand-new place is first detected, so that it can be given a name. FREE TRIAL, THEN ONE PAYMENT Everything is unlocked for 7 days. After that, tracking and the limits you have already set keep working. Adding new limits and the Trends tab need a one-time $1.99 purchase - kept for good, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. No subscription. WHAT IT NEEDS - "Always" location access, so places can be detected while the app is closed. It uses Apple's low-power visit monitoring, not continuous GPS tracking. - Screen Time access, Apple's own permission for setting app limits and reading usage. A NOTE ON ACCURACY iOS does not give third-party apps a live running total of usage, so per-place minutes are estimated from usage thresholds and will not add up exactly to the figure in Settings. Time spent travelling between places is deliberately left out rather than assigned to whichever place happened to be nearest. Apple's own exact daily total is shown inside the app so you can always compare.
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Verdict
Scrollar and ScreenLocation are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Scrollar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and ScreenLocation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Scrollar | ScreenLocation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nguyen Thao Uyen | Andrew Meyers |
In-app purchases
Scrollar
- Scrollar Premium Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Scrollar Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
ScreenLocation
- Trends$1.99









