StudyKey vs why?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StudyKey
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Make a little learning part of your screen-time routine. StudyKey combines app boundaries, flashcards and focused time in one calm space. Choose how you want to study, set your own rules and make room for what matters. LEARN TO UNLOCK Choose apps to protect and the decks you want to practise. Complete a learning challenge in StudyKey to earn access according to your rule. Set the number of cards and the minutes earned per card, or choose a total break duration. FLASHCARDS, VOCABULARY AND QUIZZES Try ready-made examples to find your learning style. Build knowledge cards, practise words with example sentences or answer four-choice quizzes. Review with spaced repetition, edit individual cards and remove cards or whole decks whenever you need. CREATE FROM YOUR OWN MATERIAL Describe a topic, paste notes, attach a PDF or choose a photo. AI helps turn your source into a draft you can review before saving. Preview attachments and add optional instructions. Photos can be up to 10 MB and are optimised before upload; PDFs can contain up to 5 pages and be up to 2 MB. AI can make mistakes, so check every answer. FOCUS AND SEE YOUR RHYTHM Start a focus session with an intention. Build a personal focus tapestry over time and explore your week, month or year. Share the selected period as an image. BOUNDARIES THAT FIT YOUR DAY Use learning challenges, focus sessions, daily app limits or scheduled quiet hours. App protection requires Screen Time permission on a supported device. STUDYKEY PREMIUM Choose the existing weekly or yearly subscription. The weekly plan includes 75 AI generation credits per calendar week, resetting Monday at 00:00 UTC. The yearly plan includes 75 credits per calendar month, resetting on the first day at 00:00 UTC. One generation attempt uses one credit and creates up to 10 cards. Failed generation attempts also use a credit; unused credits do not roll over. Saved cards and manually created cards do not use AI credits. Shared service safety limits may temporarily affect generation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in Apple Settings. Prices and billing periods are shown before purchase. Privacy policy: https://beratonerdev.com/privacy/kotu Terms of use: https://beratonerdev.com/terms/kotu
why?
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why? We don’t think your phone is the enemy. And we don’t think every minute on your screen is a minute wasted. Sometimes you open Instagram because you need to reply to someone. Sometimes you open YouTube because you want to watch something. Sometimes you just want to do nothing. That’s okay. The problem isn’t using your phone. The problem is using it without choosing to. We unlock. We tap. We scroll. And somewhere along the way, we stop knowing why we started. So we built why? Not to block you. Not to shame you. Not to tell you how many hours of your life you’ve wasted. Just one small question, at the moment it matters: Why? Why are you opening this? What are you looking for? What do you actually want to do? Sometimes, asking the question is enough. Sometimes, you’ll realize you do want to continue. Good. Continue. Sometimes you’ll realize you don’t. Good. Close it. Both are wins. Because the goal isn’t less screen time. The goal isn’t perfect discipline. The goal isn’t becoming someone who never scrolls. The goal is something much simpler: To put you back in the driver’s seat. A phone should be a tool you pick up, not a place you disappear into. So pause. Ask yourself. And choose. Why? FREE & PRO why? is free for two apps. Pro removes the two-app limit. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial. Monthly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and, for renewals, within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. REQUIREMENTS why? requires Screen Time access, which iOS requests during setup. You can withdraw this permission at any time. Showing all three answers together requires iOS 26.4 or later. On earlier versions, the question still appears with one answer and a way back. Fifteen minutes is the shortest access window Apple’s system allows. PRIVACY No account. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your device. TERMS Privacy Policy: commalabs.co/why/privacy Terms of Use: commalabs.co/why/terms Apple Standard EULA: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
StudyKey and why? are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. StudyKey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and why? sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StudyKey ships an update every 9 days, why? every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | StudyKey | why? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BERAT ONER | Comma Labs |
In-app purchases
StudyKey
- Weekly Premium$4.997 Days
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
why?
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$24.99








