Comparison

OpenAd vs Storey

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

Head to head
About

OpenAd

This app helps you limit screen time by making distractions inconvenient. Gate specific apps or categories, and watch a short ad to unlock them temporarily. It's designed to create friction, encouraging deliberate choices and helping you regain focus.

Highlights
  • Gate apps, categories, or websites
  • Watch ads to unlock apps
  • Temporary unlocks (5 or 15 minutes)
  • Automatic re-locking
  • Tracks user resistance
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Before you scroll, pay the toll. OpenAd is a free app blocker and screen time tool. Pick the apps that eat your day, and every time you open one, you watch an ad first. It's annoying. That's the point. 100% FREE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. EVER. The ads pay for OpenAd, so you never do. No paywall, no premium tier. HOW IT WORKS • Block any app, category or website • Open a blocked app and you hit OpenAd's block screen • Watch 1 ad for 5 minutes. You also get 2 free passes a day • When time's up, the block comes back on its own • Change your mind? Tap "Not now", and it counts as a win STOP DOOMSCROLLING, AND SEE THE PROOF • Your screen time receipt: tolls paid, ads watched and urges resisted, for this week or all time. Share it in one tap • A Lock Screen countdown while your apps are unlocked • A Sunday recap of your week • A Home Screen widget with today's resisted urges MADE FOR • Cutting back on social media and doomscrolling • Staying focused while you study or work • A digital detox that doesn't depend on willpower GOOD TO KNOW • If an ad can't load, OpenAd offers a short timed wait instead. • You never have to tap an ad, install anything or buy anything. • Screen Time permission is required to block apps. Notifications and tracking are optional. • You can report an inappropriate ad in Settings. YOUR PRIVACY • The apps you block and your Screen Time activity stay on your iPhone. They're never sent to us or to advertisers. • Ads come from third-party ad partners. "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" is in Settings and on by default. • OpenAd collects basic usage analytics to improve the app. See the Privacy Policy for details. The world's most annoying app blocker. You're welcome.

About

Storey

This app visualizes your daily habits and goals as a growing city. Each completed habit adds a brick or a new story to your unique skyline, making progress tangible and rewarding.

Highlights
  • Build a city from daily habits
  • Visualize streaks as skyline
  • Customizable buildings and architecture
  • Smart reminders
  • Weekly recaps
  • Milestone celebrations
Features
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Storey is a habit tracker built around weekly goals. Choose how many days a week you want to exercise, read, meditate or keep any habit, and build a city from your progress. Set a goal from 1 to 7 days a week: exercise 3 days, read 4 days, or meditate 5 days. You choose which days to complete it. Weeks run Sunday to Saturday. Every week you meet a habit's goal adds a permanent floor to its building. Miss a day or a week? The floors you've earned stay. Because your habits deserve more than checkmarks. In Storey, every habit is a building. Keep the habit today and you lay a brick — a lit window in tonight's skyline. Hit your weekly goal and the building tops out: a whole new story rises, permanently. Miss a week and nothing is torn down; your city simply waits for you to build again. Over months, your consistency becomes a place. A street of towers, each one the true record of something you kept doing. BUILD YOUR CITY • Add the habits you want to keep — each one breaks ground as a new tower • Record completed days; every kept day lights a window and every goal-met week adds a floor • A living sky over your skyline: real weather, moon phases, fireworks on big wins SEE YOUR WEEKLY PROGRESS • Streak runs light up entire buildings • Follow weekly goals, goal-met streaks and momentum at a glance in Stats • Calendar views that show every kept day, month by month STAY ON TRACK • Smart optional reminders that skip the nag when you've already built today • A weekly recap of what went up • Milestones for the streaks worth celebrating MAKE IT YOURS • Start with eight building styles and unlock more as your tallest tower grows • Explore your building collection, colors and facade patterns — every tower wears the habit it stands for GO FURTHER WITH STOREY PRO • Unlimited habits — grow your street without limits • Every building style unlocked immediately • All twenty-seven colors, including fifteen animated premium finishes • The Building Studio: reshape any tower — silhouettes, crowns, window cuts, story pitch, pinned ornaments. Your city, your architecture • Time travel: rewrite any past day, not just yesterday Storey Pro offers auto-renewable monthly (with a 7-day free trial) and yearly subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Prices may vary by region. Terms of Use: https://trystorey.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://trystorey.com/privacy Private by design: sign in with Apple, delete your account (and every brick of your data) any time from Settings. Start with one habit. Keep it today. Watch something rise.

Screenshots

OpenAd4 screens
Storey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenAd at none against Storey's 3. Storey's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Storey sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. OpenAd asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OpenAd against 5.0 for Storey. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenAd ships an update weekly, Storey every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OpenAd versus Storey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenAdStorey
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings411 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB33 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSeven Agent Studios LLCBetter World LLC

Customer experience

OpenAd

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Storey

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

OpenAd

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Storey

Subscriptions3
  • Storey Pro7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Storey Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Storey Pro Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is OpenAd free?
OpenAd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Storey free?
Storey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OpenAd or Storey?
OpenAd and Storey are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do OpenAd or Storey have ads?
OpenAd shows ads; Storey does not.
Which is updated more often, OpenAd or Storey?
OpenAd ships an update weekly, and Storey every 2 days. Most recently, OpenAd was updated on October 24, 2026 and Storey on October 24, 2026.

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