Bounce Focus App vs Aloud

Bounce is a minimalist focus app that blocks distracting apps while you do deep work, with an AI assistant in your corner. SET. BLOCK. FOCUS. Pick a duration, choose the apps that pull you away, and press play. Bounce uses Apple's Screen Time technology to keep those apps blocked until your session ends, so your phone works for you instead of against you. DAILY LIMITS Cap how long you can spend in chosen apps each day. Hit the cap and Bounce steps in until tomorrow. INTENT CHECK Choose the apps that pull you in. When you open one, Bounce asks what you came for. Answer in a tap, or take a moment in Bounce first. It checks back in if you are still there later. AN AI ASSISTANT THAT KEEPS YOU HONEST The built-in assistant helps you plan sessions, get back on track after a doomscroll, and build better screen habits. Tap Brain Dump, say everything that is on your mind, and get back a plan, an order to work through it, and the one thing to start now. Connect optional context like your goals, your notes and to-dos, and your Apple Reminders, and the assistant tailors what it says to what is actually on your plate. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Stats, history, and streaks show your focus adding up. Complete at least one session a day to keep your streak alive. SUBSCRIPTION Bounce is a subscription app, and it starts with a 7-day free trial. Bounce Pro is $14.99 per month and includes everything: focus sessions, daily limits, Intent Check, stats and streaks, backup and sync, and the full AI Assistant with Brain Dump. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your blocked-app data stays on your device. Apple's Screen Time framework never shares it with us. No ads, no selling your data, and you can delete your account anytime from Settings. Terms of Use: https://flowtechnicalsolutions.com/bounce/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://flowtechnicalsolutions.com/bounce/privacy/

Natural voices that run on your iPhone or iPad. One download, then no internet needed, no hour caps, nothing expires. Aloud Pro is $49.99 a year after a 7-day free trial, or $9.99 a month, and it reads anything: add a PDF, a Word document, an EPUB, a web page, or plain text and Aloud reads the whole thing back in a voice that sounds like a person. Share a note from the Notes app, a page from Safari, or a file from Mail and it lands in your library, ready to play. SPEED THAT IS ACTUALLY YOURS Listen from 0.5x to 5.0x in 0.1x steps. Change speed while it is playing. No chipmunk pitch, no waiting for the sentence to end. READS ALMOST ANY FILE PDF (including scanned pages), Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, OpenDocument, RTF, HTML, Markdown, plain text, and photos of text. Wrong file extension? Aloud looks at the bytes, not the name. NATURAL VOICES, NO INTERNET Pick a natural voice the first time you open Aloud: Heart, Bella, Michael, Emma, George, and more. They download once (about 120 MB) and then run right on your iPhone or iPad, on a plane, underground, anywhere. Listen as many hours as you like; nothing is metered and nothing expires. Apple's built-in voices are there too. MADE FOR iOS Share sheet, Open in Aloud, Siri and Shortcuts actions (Read Text Aloud, Read Clipboard), background playback, lock screen and AirPods controls. Tap any sentence to jump there. Aloud remembers where you stopped in every document. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR CHOICE Without an account, nothing you read leaves your device. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your library and the place you stopped in sync across your devices, and delete the account any time in Settings. Anonymous usage statistics and crash reports can be turned off in Settings. ALOUD PRO Aloud requires an Aloud Pro subscription: $49.99 per year (7-day free trial for new subscribers) or $9.99 per month, billed through your Apple Account and renewing automatically until cancelled. Cancel anytime in Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions. Prices may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://flowtechnicalsolutions.com/aloud/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/