YourHour vs HourLimit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YourHour
Gain control over your digital life by tracking phone usage, setting app limits, and blocking distractions. This tool helps you understand your habits, reduce unwanted scrolling, and build healthier digital routines for better focus and productivity.
- Screen time dashboard
- App blocker and limits
- Focus sessions
- Mindful pause feature
- Digital habit score
- Time budgets
- Custom challenges
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Take control of your screen time with YourHour - a powerful Screen Time Tracker and App Blocker Designed to help you understand your phone habits, reduce distractions, stay focused, and build healthier digital routines. See where your time goes. Set meaningful limits. Break automatic scrolling habits. Make your phone work for you. ◆ SCREEN TIME DASHBOARD Understand your daily phone use at a glance. • Track total Screen Time • See pickups and phone activity • Discover your most-used apps • View weekly Screen Time trends • Explore detailed app usage Turn raw usage data into something you can actually act on. ◆ APP BLOCKER & APP LIMITS Set limits for the apps that take the most of your attention. • Create daily limits for individual apps • Choose when limits are active • Block apps when your limit is reached • Manage distracting social, entertainment and gaming apps • Adjust or disable limits whenever you need to Use app limits to protect time for work, study, family and things that matter most. ◆ FOCUS SESSIONS Protect focused time from distracting apps and websites. Choose what to pause, set a focus duration, and stay on track while YourHour helps reduce interruptions. With supported iPhone features, you can track Focus Sessions from the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and Control Center. ◆ MINDFUL PAUSE Interrupt automatic phone checking before it becomes another scrolling session. Mindful Pause guides you through a short breathing exercise before opening distracting apps, giving you a moment to decide whether you really want to continue. ◆ DOOMSCROLLING & DIGITAL DETOX Trying to spend less time on social media? YourHour helps you create boundaries around the apps and habits that consume your attention. Use Screen Time insights, App Limits, Focus Sessions and Mindful Pause to reduce unnecessary phone use and make your daily screen time more intentional. ◆ TIME BUDGETS Group apps, categories and websites into shared time budgets. Create a single daily allowance for a group of distractions and manage your time across them more intentionally. ◆ RECLAIM PLAN Set a personalized 7-day Screen Time reduction goal. YourHour tracks your progress and shows whether you're on track, at risk, or exceeding your target. ◆ DIGITAL HABIT SCORE Go beyond a simple Screen Time number. YourHour analyzes your recent phone usage and creates a personalized Digital Habit Score so you can see how your digital habits are changing over time. Track your progress and work toward healthier, more balanced phone use. ◆ CHALLENGES Turn reducing Screen Time into a measurable goal. Create structured challenges with custom durations, schedules, reminders and progress tracking. Choose from different challenge types or create your own routine. ◆ CATEGORY INSIGHTS See how much time you spend across categories such as: • Social • Entertainment • Games • Productivity • Education • Utilities Identify the categories consuming your attention and decide where you want to make a change. ◆ BUILT FOR FOCUS & PRODUCTIVITY YourHour can help you protect time for: • Studying • Work • Reading • Exercise • Family time • Personal goals • Digital detox Whether you're trying to reduce social media use, stop doomscrolling, improve focus, or simply understand your phone habits better, YourHour gives you practical tools to take control. ◆ PRIVACY BY DESIGN YourHour is built using Apple's Screen Time framework. • No account is required to get started • You choose what to monitor • Screen Time access is requested only when needed • Your usage data stays on your device where supported Your privacy matters, and YourHour is designed to help you manage your digital life without unnecessary complexity. Start by understanding your current Screen Time. Then set one limit, protect one focus session, & begin building a healthier digital routine Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
HourLimit
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Daily screen time limits are easy to break. You burn the whole allowance before lunch, and the rest of the day has no guardrails at all. HourLimit works in hours instead. Give an app 15 minutes per hour, and when those 15 minutes are gone the app is blocked — until the top of the next hour, when the limit resets and you get a clean slate. Every hour, all day. It turns "I've blown it for today" into "I'll get another shot in 20 minutes." HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps that pull you in • Give each one a limit between 1 and 60 minutes per hour • HourLimit blocks the app the moment its limit is spent • At the top of the hour, every limit resets automatically WHAT YOU GET • Hourly limits, not daily ones — a fresh start every 60 minutes • Real blocking through Apple's Screen Time, so it works even when HourLimit is closed • A calm dashboard showing what's left this hour for each app • A heads-up notification when a limit is reached • An optional reminder at the start of each new hour • Quiet hours, so nothing buzzes while you sleep • Adjust or remove any limit at any time — changes apply immediately BUILT TO BE CALM No streaks, no scores, no shaming graphs. HourLimit blocks an app and tells you when it's coming back. That's the whole product. PRIVACY Your limits and Screen Time usage stay on your iPhone. There is no account and no analytics. HourLimit uses Apple's Screen Time framework, which never reveals which apps you limit or how you use them. Purchases are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat. FREE AND PRO Free covers up to 3 apps. Pro removes the cap so you can limit as many apps as you like, as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. REQUIREMENTS HourLimit needs Screen Time (Family Controls) permission to block apps. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: YourHour at none against HourLimit's 2. HourLimit's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. HourLimit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. YourHour asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | YourHour | HourLimit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mindefy Technologies Private Limited | Sercan PASPAL |
In-app purchases
YourHour
No in-app purchases
HourLimit
- HourLimit Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- HourLimit Pro Lifetime$14.99









