Scope vs Sit Still
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scope
This app automatically builds your daily schedule hour by hour based on your tasks, goals, and events. It's designed to reduce decision fatigue and help you start working immediately, especially for those with ADHD or anxiety.
- Auto-scheduling of daily tasks
- Distraction-free focus mode timer
- Google and Apple Calendar sync
- Weekly goal setting and scheduling
- Long task breakdown and tracking
- Focus statistics and productivity heatmap
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Scope is a free study planner, automatic scheduler, and focus timer for iPhone. Turn homework, assignments, projects, and weekly goals into a daily plan built around your deadlines, calendar events, and sleep. Know what to work on next. Add your tasks, estimated durations, and deadlines. Scope finds time for them, then guides you through each scheduled focus session. PLAN YOUR DAY AUTOMATICALLY • Schedule short tasks for a specific day. • Spread longer projects across multiple days before a deadline. • Set weekly study or work targets and schedule time throughout the week. • Build your plan around events and a protected sleep window. • Edit a task or event to review your updated schedule. FOCUS ON ONE TASK AT A TIME Follow a live countdown with your upcoming tasks in view. Pause, complete, skip, or jump to a task as you work. Choose distracting apps to block automatically during focus sessions. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Track focus time with a 13-week activity heatmap, hourly charts, weekly totals, and a breakdown by task type. INCLUDE YOUR CALENDAR EVENTS With your permission, Scope imports events from iPhone Calendar. Google Calendar events can be included when they already appear in iPhone Calendar. OPTIONAL ACCOUNT SYNC Sign in with Apple and enable Sync data to save your Scope data to Scope's servers and restore it when switching iPhones. One active device is supported at a time. Imported calendar events stay on the device. FREE AND AD-FREE No subscriptions, ads, or paywalls. Use Scope to plan study sessions, manage assignments, make progress on projects, and build a more structured day. Learn more at scopeapp.dev.
Sit Still
This app helps you focus by blocking distracting applications and offering a calming timer experience. Earn rewards by staying focused to unlock new cozy rooms and accessories for your virtual cat companion.
- App blocking modes (Companionship, Whitelist, Strict)
- Scheduled app locking
- Customizable timer shapes (countdown, open-ended, pomodoro)
- Collectible illustrated rooms with unique soundscapes
- Virtual cat companion with unlockable accessories
- Task list syncing with Reminders
- Session history and streak tracking
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Sit Still is a focus timer and app blocker that gives you somewhere to be. Most focus apps punish you, Sit Still keeps you company. A cat sleeps in a painted room while you work, and the reward for sitting still is a collection you build. Blocking is real, and as firm as you want it to be. The rooms are the heart of it: watercolour illustrations painted like the pages of a childhood picture book, meant to feel cozy and nostalgic — to stir a memory of being small and safe somewhere — each with its own soundscape. APP BLOCKING FEATURES Three app blocking modes for a focus session: Open, Whitelist and Strict. Additionally, app blocking rules allow you to put away the apps that keep distracting you throughout the day. You can lock the apps on a schedule of your own or hold them to a daily limit. You can also set a bedtime lock on a night schedule you choose. WALLPAPERS AND WIDGETS Any room you have can be saved to your Photos as a wallpaper, drawn at the full resolution of your phone or iPad, with your cat in the corner or without it. There are widgets too: the room you are sitting in with your focus stats under it, the collection with a different room every hour, a calendar of the month with your cat beside it, and your streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. A TIMER WITH THREE SHAPES Countdown, open-ended, or pomodoro. The pomodoro starts at the classic 25 / 5 / 15, and all three lengths are yours to change. A session carries on with the screen locked, and shows itself on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A COLLECTION OF ROOMS A permanent collection of rooms, from a bookshop loft in Porto to a stilt house on the Mekong Delta, and two new rooms on the first of every month that leave with it. Every room has its own illustration and its own ambience loop, levelled against all the others so changing rooms is never a lurch. On iPad, every room opens out into a wide painting, upright or sideways. A CAT, AND THINGS FOR IT TO WEAR Six companions, hand-drawn and animated. Focusing earns whiskers, and whiskers buy cat accessories and the monthly rooms. Pet the cat and it notices. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, AND WHAT YOU DID A task list that stays in sync with your phone's own Reminders. A record of every session — hours, streaks, and the note you left about what you were working on. Sit Still Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in Settings › your Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://alteraapps.com/sit-still/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scope at 5.0 against Sit Still's 4.5. Scope also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Sit Still's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Sit Still sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Scope asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scope holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Scope ships an update monthly, Sit Still every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Scope | Sit Still |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Derek Li | Johannes Butzke |
Customer experience
Scope
Sit Still
In-app purchases
Scope
No in-app purchases
Sit Still
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$34.991 Year









