LitLock vs Phone Stop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
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 โข Block individual apps or whole categories instantly โข Run a timed blocking session for as long as you choose โข Set recurring schedules by day and time โข Hard Lock: a stricter session you can't end early Read, instead of stare โข Open a blocked app and see a passage from literature instead of the usual warning โข A literary clock with 1,500+ passages, each matched to the exact time as it appears in the original text โข Every passage comes from a public-domain work, credited to its author and title โข View the clock in portrait, landscape, or full screen โข Works with StandBy โข Home Screen quote widgets in Small, Medium, and Large Built for privacy โข No account required โข No ads. No user tracking. โข 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
Phone Stop
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Phone Stop โ ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ ํ์์ผ๋ก ์ง์ง ์ง์คํ๋ ์๊ฐ ๋ฑ ํ ๋ฒ ์ค์ ํ๋ฉด, ์ ํด ๋ ์๊ฐ ๋์ ์ ํํ ์ฑยท์น์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ iOS ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ ํ์(๊ฐ์กฑ ๊ณต์ )์ผ๋ก ์ฐจ๋จํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ณต๋ถ, ์ ๋ฌด, ์๋ฉด ์ ๋์งํธ ๋ํก์ค์ ๋ง์ถฐ ์ค่ฎกํ์ต๋๋ค. โ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ค 1) ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ ํ์ ๊ถํ ํ์ฉ 2) ์ฐจ๋จํ ์ฑยท์น์ฌ์ดํธ ์ ํ 3) ์ฆ์ ์ ๊ธ(๋ถยท์๊ฐยท์ผ) ๋๋ ์์ฝ ์ ๊ธ(์์ผยท์๊ฐ๋) ์์ โ ์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ โข ์ฆ์ ์ ๊ธ โ ์ง๊ธ๋ถํฐ N๋ถ/N์๊ฐ ๋์ ์ ํ ํญ๋ชฉ ์ฐจ๋จ โข ์์ฝ ์ ๊ธ โ ํ์ผยท์ฃผ๋ง ๋ฑ ์์ผยท์๊ฐ๋๋ณ ๋ฐ๋ณต ์ฐจ๋จ โข ์ฑ & ์น์ฌ์ดํธ ์ ํ โ iOS ํ๋ ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ฐ๋ โข URL ์ง์ ์ถ๊ฐ โ ์น ์ฐจ๋จ ๋ณด์ โข ์ ๊ธ ์ข ๋ฃ ์๋ฆผ โ ์ฆ์ ์ ๊ธ ์ข ๋ฃ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ก์ปฌ ์๋ฆผ โข ์ ๊ธ ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ธ๋ โ ์ง์ค ์์ ์ต๊ด์ฉ ์์ผยท์๊ฐ ์๋ฆผ(์ค์ ) โข ๋ค๊ตญ์ด โ ํ๊ตญ์ดยทEnglishยทๆฅๆฌ่ชยทไธญๆ(็ฎไฝ) โ ์๊ธ โข ์ฆ์ ์ ๊ธ: ๋ฌด๋ฃ โข ์์ฝ ์ ๊ธ: 1๊ฐ๊น์ง ๋ฌด๋ฃ โข ์์ฝ 2๊ฐ ์ด์ยท๋ฌด์ ํ: ํ์ ์ด์ฉ๊ถ โฉ9,900 (๋น์๋ชจๅ, 1ํ ๊ฒฐ์ , ๊ตฌ๋ ์๋) ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ณต์(Restore) ์ง์ โ ๊ผญ ์์๋์ธ์ โข iOS 16 ์ด์, ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ ํ์ยทFamily Controls ๊ถํ ํ์ โข iPhone ์ ์ฉ โข ์ฐจ๋จ์ Apple ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ ํ์ ์ ์ฑ ยท๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฆ ๋๋ค โข ์ ๊ธ ์ค ์ฑ ํ๋ฉด์์ ์ฆ์ ํด์ ๋ฒํผ์ ์ ๊ณตํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค(์๊ฐ ์ข ๋ฃ ๋๋ ์ค์ ์ ์ฐจ๋จ ์๋ก๊ณ ์นจ ๋ฑ) โ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๊ฒฐ์ ยท๋ณต์์ App Store(StoreKit)๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ฑ ๋ด ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฐฉ์นจยท์ด์ฉ์ฝ๊ด์ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋ฌธ์: ryussi0925@gmail.com
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Verdict
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.
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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.
| Parameter | LitLock | Phone Stop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ONECHUNK | JinYouL You You |
In-app purchases
LitLock
- LitLock Monthly$7.991 Month
- LitLock Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- LitLock Yearly 397 Days trial$39.991 Year
- LitLock Lifetime$79.99
Phone Stop
- Phone Stop Lifetime$5.99









