NoRot vs ScriptBeam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoRot
This app helps you reduce screen time and break phone addiction. It offers powerful app blocking, focus sessions, and gamified tools to build healthier digital habits. Take back control of your attention and live more.
- Screen Time Control
- Powerful App Blocker
- Focus Score
- Focus Sessions
- 7-Second Pause
- Daily Streaks
- Detailed Insights
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Reduce your screen time, block distracting apps, and take back control of your phone. NoRot helps you beat phone addiction with a powerful app blocker, Focus Score, focus sessions, and smart screen time controls that make building healthy habits easier than ever. A thousand engineers built social media to keep you scrolling. Fighting them with willpower alone isn't a fair fight. NoRot fights back for you. It blocks the apps stealing your attention, helps you stay focused, and turns reducing screen time into a game you'll actually enjoy. Instead of simply showing screen time statistics, NoRot helps you build healthier habits that last. WHY NOROT? Unlike traditional screen time apps that only show usage reports, NoRot combines powerful app blocking, screen time control, productivity tools, and gamification to help you spend less time on your phone and more time living your life. FEATURES • Screen Time Control Reduce screen time with smart app limits, schedules, and customizable blocking rules. • Powerful App Blocker Block distracting apps completely, on a schedule, or after reaching your daily usage limit. • Focus Score Track your daily focus with a unique 0–100 score based on your actual screen time and app usage. • Focus Sessions Stay productive with distraction-free focus sessions that keep distracting apps locked until you're done. • 7-Second Pause Stop mindless scrolling with a short pause before opening distracting apps, giving you time to make a better choice. • Daily Streaks Build consistency and stay motivated by maintaining focus streaks every day. • Detailed Insights Understand your habits with screen time reports, usage trends, and productivity insights. • Home Screen Widget See your Focus Score, daily progress, and mascot directly from your home screen. PERFECT FOR • Reducing screen time • Breaking phone addiction • Stopping doom scrolling • Blocking social media apps • Improving productivity • Staying focused while studying • Building healthier digital habits • Completing a digital detox 100% PRIVATE Your Screen Time data never leaves your device. No accounts, no sign-ups, and no personal data collection. Everything stays private on your iPhone. Take back your attention. Reduce screen time, stay focused, and build healthier habits with NoRot. SUBSCRIPTION NoRot Premium unlocks all features with Monthly, Yearly, and Lifetime purchase options. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime from your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://getnorot.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://getnorot.com/privacy-policy/
ScriptBeam
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ScriptBeam is a voice-follow teleprompter for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Speech recognition keeps your place as you speak. Prompt and record video together, mirror text for professional teleprompter rigs, and control prompting from another nearby Apple device. Choose Lifetime Pro once to unlock all three platforms with the same Apple ID. Write in the app or import from Files and iCloud Drive. Prompt at a fixed speed, finish on time, follow a target speaking pace, or let Apple Speech keep your place as you read. Voice Follow highlights your current line and keeps it comfortably in view. Professional prompting features: • Independent horizontal and vertical mirroring for beam-splitter rigs • Font size, weight, alignment, spacing, margins, focus position, and colors • Countdown, progress, elapsed and remaining time, chapter markers, and paragraph jumps • Front/rear camera recording with simultaneous Voice Follow, take review, Photos save, and system sharing • Private iCloud sync for scripts and settings across your Apple devices • One app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with encrypted nearby-device remote control • Controls compatible with keyboards, presentation remotes, and foot pedals • Plain-text export and versioned full-library backup and restore • Local-first script storage with no app-owned transcription server Eligible customers can try Monthly Pro free for 7 days, then it renews monthly unless cancelled. Lifetime Pro is a separate full-price, one-time purchase, available during the trial or a paid monthly period; prior monthly payments are not credited. Buying Lifetime Pro does not cancel an existing subscription; manage and cancel it through your Apple account to avoid overlapping charges. Prices are localized by Apple, and eligible purchases can be restored. Speech recognition is provided by Apple Speech. On-device availability depends on the selected language, device, and installed system models. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ScriptBeam at weekly against NoRot's every 2 months. ScriptBeam also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. NoRot sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ScriptBeam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NoRot ships an update every 2 months, ScriptBeam weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | NoRot | ScriptBeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harshavardhan Arimanda | 津 罗 |
In-app purchases
NoRot
- NoRot Premium (Monthly)3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- NoRot Premium (Monthly)$11.991 Month
- NoRot Premium (Yearly)3 Days trial$38.991 Year
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- NoRot Premium (Yearly)$48.991 Year
- NoRot Lifetime Offer$98.99
- NoRot Lifetime$128.99
ScriptBeam
- ScriptBeam Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- 7-Day Pro TrialFree
- ScriptBeam Pro Lifetime$19.99
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