Comparison

Sapiens vs DetoxBrain

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

Head to head
About

Sapiens

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Sapiens is a powerful screen time and app blocker designed for people who want to stop doomscrolling, protect their focus, and take back control of their phone. Whether you want to block distracting apps, reduce endless scrolling, or build better digital habits, Sapiens helps you stay focused with simple tools and a gamified evolution system. From people trying to spend less time on social media to focused users building a healthier relationship with their phone, Sapiens gives you the tools to block distractions, track your progress, and become the strongest version of yourself. “Exactly what I needed to stop opening distracting apps without thinking.” “The evolution system makes screen time control feel motivating, not boring.” “Simple, clean, and perfect for blocking apps when I need to focus.” “Finally an app blocker that feels personal and fun to use.” Whether you're trying to study, work, sleep better, or simply scroll less, Sapiens makes it easy to block apps, create focus schedules, and stay consistent with your goals. Unlike many productivity apps that feel complicated or stressful, Sapiens keeps things simple: block distractions, reclaim your focus, and evolve. Sapiens is built for people who want more control over their screen time. Your digital habits shape your evolution state — from instinctive scrolling to full focus. The less you let your phone control you, the closer you get to becoming Sapiens. FEATURES: • Simple and intuitive app blocker designed to reduce distractions • Block distracting apps when you need to focus • Create focus schedules for work, study, sleep, or personal time • Set app limits to control how much time you spend scrolling • Track your screen time and see your progress over time • Gamified evolution system that reflects your digital habits • Visual evolution states that make focus feel motivating • One-tap blocking for quick focus sessions • Stay consistent with healthier phone habits • Reduce doomscrolling and mindless app opening • Build better routines around social media and entertainment apps • Clean and minimal design made for everyday use • Perfect for students, professionals, creators, and anyone who wants more focus • Protect your attention during deep work, studying, or rest • Take back control of your phone and spend time more intentionally Sapiens is free to use and built with privacy in mind. Your screen time activity, app blocking settings, schedules, and focus progress stay on your device. We do not sell your data, track you across other apps, or send your personal screen time information to external servers. Sapiens helps you control your phone while keeping your data private and safe. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://amber-pixie-75a.notion.site/Sapiens-Privacy-Policy-396d7c6987ca804eaf85cc4d65325501?source=copy_link

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Sapiens4 screens
DetoxBrain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sapiens at none against DetoxBrain's 4. DetoxBrain's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DetoxBrain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sapiens asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sapiens versus DetoxBrain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSapiensDetoxBrain
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKalybay ZhalgasbayDuc Hoan Nguyen

In-app purchases

None

Sapiens

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

DetoxBrain

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Lifetime$69.99
  • Premium Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Sapiens free?
Sapiens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DetoxBrain free?
DetoxBrain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sapiens or DetoxBrain have ads?
Neither Sapiens nor DetoxBrain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sapiens or DetoxBrain?
Sapiens ships an update every 2 weeks, and DetoxBrain every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sapiens was updated on October 25, 2026 and DetoxBrain on October 31, 2026.

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