Derot vs DetoxBrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Derot
This app helps you reclaim your time by blocking distracting applications and tracking your screen usage. It offers daily limits, a brain health score, and digital detox challenges to build better habits and improve focus.
- Block distracting apps
- Track screen time with analytics
- Set daily usage limits
- Brain health score
- 7-day digital detox challenges
- Progress tracking
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Fight Brainrot. Reclaim Your Life. You pick up your phone for "just one second" - and 45 minutes vanish. Modern life keeps your brain in a constant loop of scrolling, notifications, and noise. Derot gives you a calm space. A simple timer. A chance to breathe again. WHAT YOU GET: - Block Distractions: Block TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, games, and any app that steals your focus - Track Screen Time: See exactly where your time goes with beautiful, easy-to-read analytics - Set Daily Limits: Choose your limits, get gentle reminders, and stay on track - Brain Health Score: Understand how your phone habits affect your mental clarity - 7-Day Digital Detox: Build streaks, earn rewards, and watch your focus grow - Progress Tracking: See your improvement day by day, week by week WHY DEROT? Most screen time apps just show you data. Derot helps you actually change your habits. We combine app blocking, usage tracking, and daily challenges to help you reduce screen time, stay focused, and feel present again. REAL RESULTS: - Users reduce screen time by an average of 2+ hours daily - 94% of users feel less distracted after one week - Build lasting habits with daily streaks and challenges PRIVATE & SECURE: - No account required - All data stays on your device - We don't collect any personal data Stop scrolling. Start living. Download Derot and take back control of your time today. Website: https://areser.net/derot Terms of Service: https://areser.net/derot/terms Privacy Policy: https://areser.net/derot/policy
DetoxBrain
This app helps you regain control of your digital habits by blocking distracting applications and setting screen time limits. It offers focus sessions, detailed insights into your usage, and privacy-focused architecture that keeps your data on your device.
- Block distracting apps with enforced system-level blocking
- Set daily time and open-count limits per app
- Recurring schedules for bedtime, work, and mornings
- Timed sessions with growing delays before app access
- Focus sessions for uninterrupted work or study
- Detailed usage insights and streaks
- Privacy-first architecture with data stored locally
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You didn't mean to spend two hours on that app. DetoxBrain puts a moment of friction between the reflex and the scroll — and makes blocking that actually holds. 1. Block distracting apps - Pick the apps that pull you in. DetoxBrain shields them — enforced by your phone's own system, so it works even when DetoxBrain isn't open, even offline, even after a restart. - Multiple independent block groups: your bedtime rules don't have to fight your work rules. - A "Fix blocking" button and self-healing shields, because a blocker that silently stops blocking is worse than no blocker. 2. Screen-time limits that fit a real life - Daily time budgets per app, plus open-count limits — for the apps you don't spend long in, you just open forty times. - Recurring schedules: bedtime, mornings, work hours. - A pause and an intention prompt before you go in, with a delay that grows as the day's opens add up: 10 seconds, then 30, then a minute. - Need in anyway? Take a timed session — 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes — and it re-locks itself. A decision, not a slip. 3. Focus sessions - Start a 25, 50, or custom-length session. Your blocked apps stay blocked; the timer keeps running in the background. - Finish, and your streak grows. 4. Insights & streaks — free, all of it - Today's total, per-app breakdown, pickups, yesterday's comparison, a 7-day chart, a calendar heatmap. - Distraction-only mode: only the apps you chose count. Maps, music and messages don't get held against you. - A brain-health score with real long-term progression — yesterday's discipline doesn't get erased overnight. 5. Private by default — not as a promise, as an architecture Your usage data never leaves your device. Not "we don't look at it" — we can't. Apple's Screen Time framework confines your screen-time data to a sandbox on your phone, and we built no server that could receive it. Your app list, your blocklist, how long you spend where: all of it stays on the device. Nothing to sell, nothing to leak. No account required to use any of it. 6. Premium The free tier is meant to be genuinely useful — full stats, three blocked apps, the friction layer, streaks, and your emergency pass are free forever. Upgrade for: - Block as many apps as you want, organized into separate groups — and block a whole category, like Social, in one tap - Strict mode: once a focus session starts, you can't switch it off from inside the app. Your weekly emergency pass still works, and "Remove all shields" is always there — it just takes two hours to land. - Custom shield screens - Detailed weekly insights Monthly, annual (with a 7-day free trial) and lifetime plans. No full-screen ads, ever — an app about protecting your attention has no business interrupting it. 7. There's always a way out An emergency pass, once a week. A "Reset all shields" button that's never behind a paywall. If your subscription lapses, everything you set up keeps running exactly as it was — nothing is switched off, nothing is deleted. To change it you'd come back to Premium or trim down to the free tier, but the way out is never for sale. Getting locked out of your own phone is a bug, not a feature. Built with care by a solo developer in Hanoi. Email me — I actually reply: support@detoxbrain.web.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Derot at every 4 days against DetoxBrain's every 2 weeks. Derot also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). DetoxBrain's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Derot sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and DetoxBrain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Derot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DetoxBrain has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Derot ships an update every 4 days, DetoxBrain every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Derot | DetoxBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anh Nguyen | Duc Hoan Nguyen |
Customer experience
Derot
DetoxBrain
In-app purchases
Derot
- Derot Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Derot Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Derot Annual Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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- Derot Annual Subscription1 Year trial$59.991 Year
- Derot Lifetime$99.99
DetoxBrain
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$69.99
- Premium Lifetime$119.99









