Comparison

Push Up Time vs ChessScroll

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

Head to head
About

Push Up Time

This app helps you break free from endless scrolling by requiring you to complete quick exercises before unlocking distracting apps or websites. Earn temporary access to your chosen apps by doing push-ups, squats, or planks, fostering healthier screen time habits.

Highlights
  • App and website blocking
  • Exercise-based unlocking (push-ups, squats, planks)
  • Camera-based exercise detection
  • Temporary unlock sessions
  • Screen time balance tracking
  • Distraction-free design
Features
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Push Up Time: App Blocker helps you stop endless scrolling with a simple rule: move first, unlock later. Choose the apps and websites that distract you, block them with Screen Time, then earn temporary access by completing quick exercises like push-ups, squats, and planks. It is a focus app, app blocker, and digital wellness tool built for people who want less scrolling and more movement. HOW IT WORKS • Select the apps or websites you want to block • Complete short exercise sessions • Earn unlock time after each workout • Use your earned time to access blocked apps • Build better screen time habits day by day WHY PUSH UP TIME? Traditional app blockers only lock you out. Push Up Time gives you a healthier way back in. Instead of opening distracting apps automatically, you pause, move your body, and unlock access intentionally. FEATURES • App and website blocking with Apple Screen Time • Push-up, squat, and plank based rewards • Camera-based exercise detection • Temporary unlock sessions • Screen time balance tracking • Simple onboarding • Clean, distraction-free design • No account required CAMERA PRIVACY The camera is used only to detect exercise movement and count reps or hold time. Camera video is not recorded, stored, or uploaded. SCREEN TIME PRIVACY Push Up Time only manages the apps and websites you choose through Apple’s Screen Time picker. You can change your selections or revoke permissions in iOS Settings. BUILT FOR • Reducing social media scrolling • Staying focused while studying or working • Building healthier phone habits • Turning screen time into movement • Replacing impulse unlocks with intentional breaks Push Up Time is not a medical or fitness coaching app. It is a productivity and digital wellness app that uses simple movement to help you take control of your screen time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://ismailfatihbirak.github.io/ruisPrivacyPolicy/push-up-time-term-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://ismailfatihbirak.github.io/ruisPrivacyPolicy/push-up-time-privacy-policy.html

About

ChessScroll

This app locks distracting applications behind chess puzzles. Solve a puzzle to earn minutes of screen time for your chosen apps. It aims to reduce screen time by integrating practice into existing habits.

Highlights
  • App locking with chess puzzles
  • Customizable scroll time per puzzle
  • Offline puzzle functionality
  • Personalized puzzle difficulty
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
  • Reduces screen time through habit integration
Features
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Your feed costs a move now. ChessScroll seals the apps that eat your evenings — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whichever you choose — behind a chess puzzle at your level. Solve it and you earn minutes of scroll. Fail it and the position waits. That's the whole app. That's the whole deal. THE DEAL 1 puzzle = minutes of scroll. You set the exchange rate. HOW IT WORKS 1. Seal your apps. Pick the ones that eat you. 2. Reach for one, and a puzzle appears instead. 3. Solve it. The app opens and your clock starts running. 4. Minutes run out mid-scroll? In chess we call that flagging. Solve another. WHY IT WORKS You already reach for your phone dozens of times a day. ChessScroll doesn't fight that urge — it reroutes it. Every reach becomes one tactic at your level: twenty to forty seconds, and a real fight. It's the training every coach prescribes and nobody actually does, attached to a habit you already have. TWO NUMBERS, FACING EACH OTHER — Your puzzle rating, climbing. — Your daily screen time, falling. Everything else is supporting cast. REAL PUZZLES, AT YOUR LEVEL Nearly fourteen thousand positions from real games, each one rated by the players who tried it before you, and served at your rating rather than under it, so the rating you build is earned. Works fully offline. From 400 to 2700, the puzzle fits. THE CLIMB Fourteen chapters, one for each master: Morphy, Anderssen, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Nezhmetdinov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov. Every six puzzles you solve lays a stone on their road, and the one you solved at midnight to get into Instagram counts the same as the one you chose to play. The road stops at twenty-eight of their own games, and every one you solve goes into your album as a card. You never have to open the tab for it to move. NO NEW ADDICTION Training sessions end by design. No infinite puzzle feed, no guilt notifications, no nagging. Paul Morphy said in 1859 that chess should never engross the mind. We're inclined to agree. PRIVACY Your app choices and screen-time data never leave your device — Apple's Screen Time framework enforces that by design. No account needed. MEMBERSHIP ChessScroll requires a membership: yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in Settings. Terms: https://chessscroll.com/terms — Privacy: https://chessscroll.com/privacy Earn your scroll.

Screenshots

Push Up Time4 screens
ChessScroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Push Up Time at 4.9 against ChessScroll's 3.0. Push Up Time also leads on monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Push Up Time sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and ChessScroll sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Push Up Time holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Push Up Time has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Push Up Time ships an update every 10 days, ChessScroll fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Push Up Time versus ChessScroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPush Up TimeChessScroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (15 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISMAIL FATIH BIRAKMICHAŁ ROSTKOWSKI

Customer experience

Push Up Time

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ChessScroll

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Push Up Time

Subscriptions2
  • Quit Scroll Premium3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Quit Scroll Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

ChessScroll

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$7.991 Month
  • Annual Membership3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Push Up Time free?
Push Up Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChessScroll free?
ChessScroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Push Up Time or ChessScroll?
Push Up Time is rated higher. Push Up Time averages 4.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while ChessScroll averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Push Up Time or ChessScroll have ads?
Neither Push Up Time nor ChessScroll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Push Up Time or ChessScroll?
Push Up Time ships an update every 10 days, and ChessScroll fortnightly. Most recently, Push Up Time was updated on October 7, 2026 and ChessScroll on October 15, 2026.

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