Comparison

Attention Fund vs PenSign

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

Head to head
About

Attention Fund

This app helps you reduce screen time by blocking distracting apps once a daily limit is reached. It displays your commitment on a block screen and rewards clean days with earned coins, fostering streaks and a sense of accomplishment.

Highlights
  • App blocking after daily limit
  • Customizable daily limits
  • Commitment goal display
  • Earnable in-app coins
  • Streak tracking
  • Rankings and leagues
  • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
Features
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Stay off your phone. Keep your word. Attention Fund is a screen time app with teeth. You pick the apps that take your time, set a daily limit, and when you hit it, those apps stop. Not a reminder. A block. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that actually take your time. 2. Set your daily limit. 3. Write one sentence about what you will do with the time instead. That sentence is on your block screen, on your Lock Screen widget, and on your Home Screen widget. It is there every time you reach for the phone. THE BLOCK SCREEN When you hit your limit, your apps stop. The screen shows your goal, your streak, and two buttons. Put it down, or end today's limit. Ending it counts the day as lost. Nobody has to judge whether you followed through. Your phone already counted. HITTING YOUR LIMIT IS NOT FAILING Cap reached, day still safe. Nothing is lost unless you choose to push through, and you get warnings before you get anywhere near it. THE FUND Every clean day earns coins. Coins are never bought, only earned, and they cannot be spent or cashed out. They are a score of how many days you kept your word. Collect them and they grow on their own. Keep a streak going and they grow faster. Your fund climbs through seven stages, from a piggy bank to a hedge fund, and nobody can ever knock you back down a stage. RANK Everyone with a fund is on the board. Your league is your stage, and your place in it is decided by the coins you earned this month, so a new user can top their league in their first month. It resets on the first of every month. ONE STREAK, ACROSS EVERY WEEK Your streak counts clean days back to back. Only ending your own limit early breaks it. WIDGETS A ring on your Lock Screen showing how much of today's limit is left. A Home Screen tile with your goal, your streak, and a countdown to the new day. YOUR SCREEN TIME STAYS YOURS Your per app breakdown opens in Apple's own on-device report. Those numbers never leave your phone and we never see them. YOUR COMMITMENT The app is free to download. Your weekly commitment is set up and managed on attentionfund.app, outside the app. The app handles your limit, your block, your coins, and your rank. Attention Fund needs an iPhone with Screen Time and uses Apple's Family Controls framework to block the apps you choose.

About

PenSign

Features
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Make a signature you're proud of, then sign anything with it. Type your name and watch the pen write it in one of 12 signature styles or set it in 8 designer lettering styles, draw your own with a finger or Apple Pencil, or photograph the one you already sign on paper. Then scan a document and sign it in seconds. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no uploads: your signature stays yours. SIGNATURE STYLES • Type your name and watch it signed stroke by stroke, the way a pen writes • 20 styles in six groups: business, elegant, casual, bold, printed and lettering • Not quite right? Tap for another version of the same style • Five ink colours, from classic black to navy and coral • Save it like any signature and use it everywhere DRAW OR CAPTURE YOUR OWN • Draw with your finger or Apple Pencil, with three pen styles and a guide line • Photograph the signature you already write: PenSign squares up the paper, lifts the ink off the page and removes the background • Refine it: ink strength, thickness, specks and crop, with a before-and-after view • Keep initials alongside full signatures SCAN AND SIGN • Scan paper documents right in the app. PenSign finds the signature line and puts your signature on it • Or import a PDF, or a photo of a document: photos are cropped and squared up just like a scan • Add initials, text, dates and checkmarks, then tap Sign to flatten everything into the page • Sign every page at once; rotate, reorder, add and delete pages • Open password-protected PDFs • Scans stay small, so signed copies fit easily in an email OWN IT AS A FILE • Transparent PNG at print resolution • True SVG vector, built from the real strokes, so it stays sharp at any size • PDF stamp for documents that expect one • Save to Photos, copy it into Mail, Notes or Pages, or share it to any app PRIVATE BY DESIGN Capture, scanning, signing and export all run on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create. Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on your own devices, in your own private iCloud, not on our servers. • Face ID vault locks your signature library • Every edit is kept in version history, so an earlier version is always one tap away AUTOMATE IT Shortcuts actions sign a PDF or fetch your signature image from anywhere in iOS: the Share sheet, Siri, Spotlight and your own automations. Long-press the PenSign icon to scan a document or start a new signature. FREE TO TRY, ONE PRICE TO UNLOCK PenSign is free to try: keep one signature, sign up to three documents and use 13 of the 20 signature styles. The one-time unlock, a single purchase and not a subscription, adds unlimited signatures and initials, unlimited signed documents, every signature style, SVG export, iCloud sync, Shortcuts and the Face ID vault. Buy it once and it's yours. Terms of use: https://muxtor141.github.io/pensign-legal/terms.html Privacy policy: https://muxtor141.github.io/pensign-legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

Attention Fund4 screens
PenSign4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Attention Fund at none against PenSign's 2. PenSign's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. PenSign sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Attention Fund asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Attention Fund ships an update monthly, PenSign every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Attention Fund versus PenSign: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAttention FundPenSign
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon SchwartzAbdumukhtor Turgunboev

In-app purchases

None

Attention Fund

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PenSign

One-time2
  • PenSign Lifetime$9.99
  • PenSign Unlimited$14.99

Questions

Is Attention Fund free?
Attention Fund is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PenSign free?
PenSign is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Attention Fund or PenSign have ads?
Neither Attention Fund nor PenSign shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Attention Fund or PenSign?
Attention Fund ships an update monthly, and PenSign every 2 weeks. Most recently, Attention Fund was updated on November 5, 2026 and PenSign on November 6, 2026.

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