Comparison

LitLock vs Phone Stop

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

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About

LitLock

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LitLock is a Screen Time blocker that turns each blocked moment into something worth reading. Most tools built to cut screen time are good at exactly one thing: taking something away. Block a distracting app, and what's left is a bare warning screen. It works, but it doesn't give the phone anything better to do. LitLock takes a different approach. It's built on Apple's Screen Time framework, so blocking apps and categories works the normal way. The difference shows up once a session or schedule starts: instead of a warning screen, you get a passage from literature. At the center of the app is a literary clock. Check your phone at 3:47, and the passage on screen is one where that exact time appears in the original text. The library holds more than 1,500 such passages, each credited to its author and title. The result is a small, steady invitation to read: one passage at a time, all day long. WHAT LITLOCK DOES Block, on your terms โ€ข Block individual apps or whole categories instantly โ€ข Run a timed blocking session for as long as you choose โ€ข Set recurring schedules by day and time โ€ข Hard Lock: a stricter session you can't end early Read, instead of stare โ€ข Open a blocked app and see a passage from literature instead of the usual warning โ€ข A literary clock with 1,500+ passages, each matched to the exact time as it appears in the original text โ€ข Every passage comes from a public-domain work, credited to its author and title โ€ข View the clock in portrait, landscape, or full screen โ€ข Works with StandBy โ€ข Home Screen quote widgets in Small, Medium, and Large Built for privacy โ€ข No account required โ€ข No ads. No user tracking. โ€ข Your blocking settings and Screen Time data never leave your device LitLock is for anyone who'd rather their phone feel like a quiet, well-kept library than an endless feed. Access to LitLock requires an active subscription or a lifetime purchase. Eligible new subscribers can try the annual plan free for 7 days. This translation and text refinement were assisted by AI. Privacy Policy: https://litlock.onechunk.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://litlock.onechunk.app/terms

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Phone Stop

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Phone Stop โ€” ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ํƒ€์ž„์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์งœ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋”ฑ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ •ํ•ด ๋‘” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ์•ฑยท์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ iOS ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ํƒ€์ž„(๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ณต์œ )์œผ๋กœ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๋ถ€, ์—…๋ฌด, ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์ „ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋””ํ†ก์Šค์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์„ค่ฎกํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค 1) ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ํƒ€์ž„ ๊ถŒํ•œ ํ—ˆ์šฉ 2) ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•  ์•ฑยท์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์„ ํƒ 3) ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ž ๊ธˆ(๋ถ„ยท์‹œ๊ฐ„ยท์ผ) ๋˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์ž ๊ธˆ(์š”์ผยท์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€) ์‹œ์ž‘ โ–  ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ โ€ข ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ž ๊ธˆ โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ N๋ถ„/N์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์„ ํƒ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ์ฐจ๋‹จ โ€ข ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์ž ๊ธˆ โ€” ํ‰์ผยท์ฃผ๋ง ๋“ฑ ์š”์ผยท์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋ณ„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ฐจ๋‹จ โ€ข ์•ฑ & ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์„ ํƒ โ€” iOS ํ™œ๋™ ์„ ํƒ๊ธฐ ์—ฐ๋™ โ€ข URL ์ง์ ‘ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ โ€” ์›น ์ฐจ๋‹จ ๋ณด์™„ โ€ข ์ž ๊ธˆ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์•Œ๋ฆผ โ€” ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ž ๊ธˆ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ์— ๋กœ์ปฌ ์•Œ๋ฆผ โ€ข ์ž ๊ธˆ ๋ฆฌ๋งˆ์ธ๋” โ€” ์ง‘์ค‘ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์Šต๊ด€์šฉ ์š”์ผยท์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์•Œ๋ฆผ(์„ค์ •) โ€ข ๋‹ค๊ตญ์–ด โ€” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ดยทEnglishยทๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชžยทไธญๆ–‡(็ฎ€ไฝ“) โ–  ์š”๊ธˆ โ€ข ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ž ๊ธˆ: ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ โ€ข ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์ž ๊ธˆ: 1๊ฐœ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ โ€ข ์˜ˆ์•ฝ 2๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒยท๋ฌด์ œํ•œ: ํ‰์ƒ ์ด์šฉ๊ถŒ โ‚ฉ9,900 (๋น„์†Œ๋ชจๅž‹, 1ํšŒ ๊ฒฐ์ œ, ๊ตฌ๋… ์•„๋‹˜) ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ณต์›(Restore) ์ง€์› โ–  ๊ผญ ์•Œ์•„๋‘์„ธ์š” โ€ข iOS 16 ์ด์ƒ, ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ํƒ€์ž„ยทFamily Controls ๊ถŒํ•œ ํ•„์š” โ€ข iPhone ์ „์šฉ โ€ข ์ฐจ๋‹จ์€ Apple ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ํƒ€์ž„ ์ •์ฑ…ยท๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์„ค์ •์— ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ€ข ์ž ๊ธˆ ์ค‘ ์•ฑ ํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ํ•ด์ œ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์€ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์„ค์ •์˜ ์ฐจ๋‹จ ์ƒˆ๋กœ๊ณ ์นจ ๋“ฑ) โ–  ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๊ฒฐ์ œยท๋ณต์›์€ App Store(StoreKit)๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์•ฑ ๋‚ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฐฉ์นจยท์ด์šฉ์•ฝ๊ด€์„ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๋ฌธ์˜: ryussi0925@gmail.com

Screenshots

LitLock4 screens
Phone Stop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Phone Stop at 16.0 against LitLock's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. LitLock sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Phone Stop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 4 level
LitLock versus Phone Stop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLitLockPhone Stop
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size76 MB20 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperONECHUNKJinYouL You You

In-app purchases

4 purchases

LitLock

Subscriptions3
  • LitLock Monthly$7.991 Month
  • LitLock Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • LitLock Yearly 397 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • LitLock Lifetime$79.99
1 purchases

Phone Stop

One-time1
  • Phone Stop Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is LitLock free?
LitLock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Phone Stop free?
Phone Stop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LitLock or Phone Stop have ads?
Neither LitLock nor Phone Stop shows ads.

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