Dopamine Guard vs Omphalis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dopamine Guard
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**Dopamine Guard is a focus-protection app built around the intent you want to protect.** Most screen-time tools start with what to block. Dopamine Guard starts with what you're protecting — launching your app, learning a language, sleeping better — and builds your protection around it. **Protected Intent** — A short quiz captures what you're trying to protect, what steals your best hours, and when you lose control most often. **Your Personal Guard Plan** — Get a plan matched to your risk window and triggers: a recommended guard mode, focus block size, and the companion that fits your style. **Protected Focus** — Run calm, distraction-aware focus sessions with a drift-proof timer, pauses that don't cheat you, and honest completion summaries. Ending early still counts what you protected — no shame mechanics, ever. **Guard Companions** — Kiro, Nara, and Miko grow with your focus energy. Bond levels, habitats, and achievements reward protection, never punish slips. **Reports** — See your protected minutes, strongest days, and weakest windows from your real local data. **Private by design** — Dopamine Guard is local-first. Everything works without an account. If you sign in, only safe data syncs (your plan, focus history summaries, companion progress). Which apps you select for protection stays on your device — always. Dopamine Guard Pro unlocks unlimited guard modes, strict protection modes, longer focus blocks, and more. Monthly, yearly (7-day free trial), and lifetime options. *Dopamine Guard supports focus habits. It is not a medical product and does not diagnose or treat any condition.* Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Omphalis
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Omphalis is a calm home for the things you want to understand, not just get through. Save an article, a podcast, a YouTube talk, a PDF, or a voice note. Every one of them becomes the same clean, readable page, with structure you can actually use. What you get on the very first item Clean reading. Articles arrive without banners, popups, or clutter. PDF layouts are untangled. Podcasts and videos are transcribed. One calm page, whatever the source. Strata. Each piece is broken into typed moments, as many as its length and density call for, so you can see the shape of something before you read it and go straight to the part you came for. Marks. Omphalis quietly underlines the few things worth a second look: a source worth checking, a term worth defining, a claim worth following up. Keep the ones that earn it, dismiss the rest. Listen. Any saved item can be read aloud in a voice you pick, with lock screen controls. What you get as your library grows Connections. Omphalis surfaces what your own library already knew: a piece that echoes something you saved months ago, a claim that sits against another, a bridge between two topics you never filed together. It is descriptive, not predictive. It shows you your library, not a feed. Today. A short daily loop with a clear place to start and a clear place to stop. How it is built Your own thinking and other people's work go through the same pipeline and connect to each other equally. There is no separate bucket for your notes. Omphalis is custodial software. There is no trending tab, no infinite scroll, and no streak to keep alive. Today finishes. Suggestions, not verdicts. The system that picks moments and marks is fallible, and the app is built to show you that rather than hide it. Every suggestion has a keep or a dismiss beside it, and Settings names the substrate plainly. Your library, your data Sign in with Apple or Google. Export or delete your account and its contents from inside the app, at any time. What you can do Omphalis lets you save, read, and listen across your Library, Inbox, and Today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Omphalis at none against Dopamine Guard's 3. Omphalis also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Dopamine Guard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Omphalis asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dopamine Guard ships an update every 2 weeks, Omphalis every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dopamine Guard | Omphalis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roman Lakusta | Voxiven, LLC |
In-app purchases
Dopamine Guard
- Dopamine Guard Pro — Monthly$5.991 Month
- Dopamine Guard Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$69.99
Omphalis
No in-app purchases









