Comparison

Remainder vs Screen Time Control for Focus

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

Head to head
About

Remainder

This app helps you plan your day by timeboxing tasks and meetings. It automatically adjusts your schedule based on actual task completion times and can block distracting apps during work periods. Premium features include AI-powered scheduling and advanced analytics.

Highlights
  • Time blocking for tasks and meetings
  • Automatic schedule replanning
  • Distracting app blocking
  • Calendar synchronization
  • Task completion tracking
  • Detailed statistics
Features
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Spend your time on purpose. Keep the Remainder. Remainder is a time blocking or timeboxing to-do list. It plans what and when you will do something, nearly doubling your likelihood of follow-through. Unlike other apps, it follows how long each task actually takes and silently replans your day accordingly. How it works. - Plan your day as blocks: tasks, meetings, breaks - Sync to your calendars, to flow tasks around meetings - Block distracting apps while working on a task, but greenlight the apps when you need them Describe it to plan it. - Braindump everything you need to do - Remainder lays out a full schedule of your day See where your time went. - Remainder manages your estimates and actual time - Track how much time you save - Monitor detailed stats and streaks Sync across devices - Be sure to get the Mac and iPad versions, so you don't always have to run it from your phone - Remainder privately updates in real time REMAINDER PLUS The free app plans your day, runs the timer, syncs your calendars, and blocks distracting apps. Remainder Plus adds AI day planning (describe your day and get a full schedule), per-task app greenlights, and the complete stats suite: time by project, estimate accuracy, and personal records. Plus is $4.99/week, $7.99/month, or $49.99/year. The yearly plan starts with a 1-week free trial. Prices may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; the yearly free trial converts to a paid subscription the same way. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused trial time is forfeited when you purchase a plan. Terms of Use: https://remainder.co/term Privacy Policy: https://remainder.co/privacy It's not that productivity has inherent value. You don't owe the world your output. It's that it feels good to look back and know the day went where you meant it to.

About

Screen Time Control for Focus

This app helps you reclaim your time by blocking distracting applications. It provides insights into your actual screen time and offers customizable blocking schedules and resistance levels to prevent unwanted usage. Reclaim your focus and achieve your goals with a system designed to support your intentions.

Highlights
  • Accurate screen time tracking
  • Customizable app blocking schedules
  • Adjustable exit resistance levels
  • Session pause functionality
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly usage views
  • Goal-oriented planning
Features
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You finally get a moment to yourself. ScrollDam helps keep it yours, blocking the apps that turn a little scrolling into an evening you never meant to spend on your phone. A few pages. An early night. A little time to feel like yourself again. You've done enough today. Let ScrollDam hold the line. Because you know how it starts. You pick up your phone to check one message. Forty minutes disappear, and you surface without a memory of what you saw. That's not weakness - it's apps built, on purpose, to keep you from letting go. You've tried Screen Time settings, maybe another blocker. Still, here you are - tired, but not giving up. ScrollDam won't talk down to you about willpower or pile on to whatever you're already feeling. You've carried enough of that on your own. What it will do is tell you the truth, gently - your real screen time, not the softer number you'd guess. Then hand you something stronger than willpower: a system that holds the line on the nights you're too tired to fight. FIND OUT WHERE YOU REALLY STAND Before anything else, ScrollDam asks you to guess your daily screen time, then shows you the real number next to it. That gap can be the moment it clicks: you can't change a habit you haven't had a chance to see clearly. TELL US WHAT YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR Better focus. Better sleep. Being present with the people in front of you. A calmer mind. Whatever pulled you here, ScrollDam builds your plan around that one thing. BLOCK YOUR WAY Start a block right now, set it to run on a schedule, or give yourself a daily time budget. Name your sessions whatever means something to you: "Sunday Reset," "Work Hours," "No Phone Before Bed." A gentle reminder before a scheduled block starts gives you a moment to wrap up. Small details, but it's yours. CHOOSE HOW HARD IT SHOULD BE TO QUIT Some days, a five-second breath before you open apps is enough to stop you. Other days it isn't. Set the resistance yourself: a short pause, a phrase you have to type to prove you mean it, or a completely locked session - no early exit, no bargaining with yourself at 1am. A REAL PAUSE, NOT A LOOPHOLE Something urgent comes up mid-block - it happens. When your chosen mode allows it, take a short pause instead of ending the session. Blocking resumes automatically when your pause is over. SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE Day, week, and month views of your screen time, your pickups, and exactly which apps are quietly eating your hours. No shame attached. Just the truth. WHO THIS IS REALLY FOR The person who sits down to work and the phone gets there first. The parent who realizes the walk to school, the bedtime story, almost slipped by unnoticed. The one whose mornings used to mean something quieter - a book, a prayer, silence - before a feed took that time. Anyone who misses sitting with a task or a conversation without a phone demanding attention. You didn't need another app to remind you that you have a problem with your phone. You needed one built to actually hold the dam. PRIVACY, HONESTLY We monitor and block the apps you choose - and that's the extent of it. We don't see what you're doing on your phone. Nothing about your activity ever leaves your device. Feel like yourself again. Your mornings, your evenings, every quiet hour in between - they never stopped being yours. ScrollDam just helps you keep them. Subscription Info: Prices depend on your country and are billed to your Apple ID once you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before your current period ends. You can manage or cancel it anytime from your iTunes account settings. EULA: https://scrolldam.store/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://scrolldam.store/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Remainder4 screens
Screen Time Control for Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Remainder at 5.0 against Screen Time Control for Focus's 3.5. Remainder also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Screen Time Control for Focus's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Remainder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Screen Time Control for Focus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Remainder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Remainder versus Screen Time Control for Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemainderScreen Time Control for Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better3.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFilter Company, LLCFocus Control Studio

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Remainder

Subscriptions4
  • Remainder Plus Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Remainder Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Remainder Plus Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Remainder Plus Yearly - First Year1 Year trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Screen Time Control for Focus

Subscriptions2
  • ScrollDam - Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • ScrollDam - Pro Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Remainder free?
Remainder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screen Time Control for Focus free?
Screen Time Control for Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Remainder or Screen Time Control for Focus?
Remainder is rated higher. Remainder averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Screen Time Control for Focus averages 3.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Remainder or Screen Time Control for Focus have ads?
Remainder shows ads; Screen Time Control for Focus does not.

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