DetoxBrain vs NoScroll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
NoScroll
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About to open a short-video or social app? Pause first. Returning counts as a real win. NoScroll is a screen time control app for people who already set limits but still tap Ignore when willpower is low. It adds friction before the app opens, then turns avoided opens and focus time into progress you can actually feel, not another anxious screen-time leaderboard. System limits usually show up after you are already scrolling. NoScroll moves the reminder to the moment you open the app: pause first, then return or continue with intention. It is a lighter app blocker for autopilot opens, doomscrolling, late-night social feeds, and the habits that pull you out of work or study. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that pull you in: short video, shorts, social feeds, Reels-style apps, or any app you open on autopilot 2. Opening those apps shows a pause screen first. Return or continue, your choice in the moment 3. Return counts as an avoided open; Focus adds time you actually settled in. Home keeps those wins visible CORE: INTENTIONAL OPEN Pause before you open. Return is a win; continue brings another reminder later, so "just a bit more" is no longer effortless. WHEN YOU NEED MORE • Focus Mode: lock and block distraction while you work or study, and keep the focus time you earned • Sleep Schedule: auto-limit at bedtime and release in the morning, including overnight schedules • Digital Detox: whitelist-only mode for days when you want to unplug COUNT WINS, NOT HOURS NoScroll does not lead with shame about how long you scrolled. It helps you see how many impulse opens you stopped, how long you stayed focused, and when a mindful pause changed the next minute. STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Intent events and settings stay on your phone by default. Screen Time selections are managed by the system; we do not get an uploadable feed of what you watched. Privacy Policy: https://noscroll.1024ideas.com/privacy Terms: https://noscroll.1024ideas.com/terms Support: moreless1025@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DetoxBrain at Free against NoScroll's $0.99. DetoxBrain also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 weeks). NoScroll's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads and device support 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
DetoxBrain is free to download; NoScroll costs $0.99 up front. DetoxBrain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. NoScroll asks for nothing beyond the download.
DetoxBrain ships an update every 2 weeks, NoScroll every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DetoxBrain | NoScroll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Duc Hoan Nguyen | 福荣 贺 |
In-app purchases
DetoxBrain
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$69.99
- Premium Lifetime$119.99
NoScroll
No in-app purchases









