Comparison

ScreenDetox vs BoxFlow

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

Head to head
About

ScreenDetox

This app helps you reclaim time spent on your phone by setting daily intentions and logging your progress. It offers tools to manage cravings and understand your usage patterns, fostering healthier digital habits without blocking apps.

Highlights
  • Set daily if-then intentions
  • Log daily progress with one tap
  • Streak repair with reflection
  • Track reclaimed hours
  • Identify personal danger windows
  • Urge surfing and habit swaps
Features
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ScreenDetox helps you take back the hours that disappear into the scroll — not by locking you out of your phone, but by making one honest promise each morning and keeping it. SET A DAILY INTENTION Build a simple if-then plan: the situation, what you'll do instead, and a time cap. It becomes today's contract, right on your home screen. CLOSE THE DAY IN ONE TAP Every evening, log whether you kept it or slipped, and how long you actually spent. No tracking software, no permissions — just your own honest number. KEEP A STREAK THAT FORGIVES Kept days chain into a streak. Slip, and you can repair it within 24 hours by writing a short reflection, so coming back after a bad day feels safe instead of shameful. WATCH THE HOURS ADD UP The Reclaimed Ledger banks your estimated saved time against the baseline you set, and turns it into things you can picture: books read, walks taken, evenings returned. FIND YOUR DANGER WINDOW The Tide Clock maps every slip onto a 24-hour dial and names your personal high-risk window in plain language — "4 of your last 5 slips: in bed after 10pm" — then turns that pattern into tomorrow's plan in a single tap. REACH FOR A TOOL, NOT THE APP Ride out a craving with the 60-second urge surfer, or trade the habit for something better with swap cards and daily rituals. SCREENDETOX PRO (optional subscription) Unlock your full history instead of 14 days, the complete Tide Clock with trigger correlations and danger-window alerts, the whole swap deck and all six rituals, and the multi-month presence trend with export. - Monthly ($3.99) or annual ($24.99), each with a 14-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; the subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel anytime in Settings Free forever: daily intentions, check-ins, your streak and its repair, the reclaimed-hours counter, the urge surfer, three swap cards, one ritual, and this week's patterns. ScreenDetox works only from what you log yourself. It does not read your device's Screen Time data and does not block any app. Reclaimed hours are an estimate based on the baseline you enter. It is a habit tool, not medical or mental-health treatment. Privacy Policy: https://azapgibkha.accountnotify.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://azapgibkha.accountnotify.app/terms Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BoxFlow

This app guides users through shadow boxing rounds with timed work and rest periods. It paces breathing exercises and provides a single focus cue for each session. Users can track progress and access a library of boxing techniques.

Highlights
  • Timed boxing rounds
  • Paced breathing exercises
  • Daily focus cue
  • Technique library
  • Progress tracking
  • Unlimited rounds
Features
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BoxFlow runs your shadow boxing rounds, paces your breathing in the rest, and gives you one thing to work on. Built for beginners who shadow box at home. Unlike boxing apps that claim to watch your form, it has no camera and no sensors, and it never watches you train. It counts what it called and records what you told it — and it says which is which on every screen. THE ROUND BoxFlow calls the tempo and the combinations, so it knows exactly how many punches it asked for. Work and rest are timed against the plan, and the bell is a full-screen colour change you cannot miss. THE SIXTH BREATH A one-minute rest paced at six breaths a minute is exactly six breaths. BoxFlow paces them, you tap the ring at the end of each exhale, and every confirmed breath prints a mark on the ring. Six a minute beat both box breathing and free breathing on heart rate and perceived effort in a randomised trial of exactly this rest interval. ONE CUE, CHOSEN BY YOU Coaches at a national championship averaged eight instructions a round. You get one, you pick it from three, and it is phrased as something to do out in the world rather than something to think about inside your body — the phrasing that measurably improves punch speed and force. THE LADDER Six rungs of round structure. You move up when your last three sessions say you are ready, not when the calendar says so. TECHNIQUE, WITH ITS SOURCE SHOWN Teaching points and common mistakes taken from the international amateur boxing coaching manual, plus a plain answer to the claims this sport repeats — box breathing, 10,000 hours, 300 reps a day, and apps that say they can measure your form. FREE, FOREVER The whole training loop: unlimited rounds, every ladder rung, the breath pacer, the daily cue, the full technique library, your streak, and your last 14 sessions. The timer is never paywalled. BOXFLOW PRO (optional subscription) Unlimited history, the breath and cue trends, effort-versus-output insights, unlimited custom combinations, and CSV export of your own log. - Monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in Settings BoxFlow is training practice, not medical advice. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/778/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/778/terms

Screenshots

ScreenDetox4 screens
BoxFlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

ScreenDetox and BoxFlow are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. ScreenDetox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and BoxFlow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ScreenDetox against 5.0 for BoxFlow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ScreenDetox versus BoxFlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenDetoxBoxFlow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeneva McClendonASHOK KUMAR

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ScreenDetox

Subscriptions2
  • ScreenDetox Pro Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • ScreenDetox Pro Annual14 Days trial$24.991 Year
2 purchases

BoxFlow

Subscriptions2
  • BoxFlow Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • BoxFlow Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is ScreenDetox free?
ScreenDetox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoxFlow free?
BoxFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ScreenDetox or BoxFlow?
ScreenDetox and BoxFlow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ScreenDetox or BoxFlow have ads?
Neither ScreenDetox nor BoxFlow shows ads.

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