Comparison

Tino vs Barake

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

Head to head
About

Tino

This app helps you reclaim your time by locking distracting applications. Earn in-app currency by completing healthy activities and spend it to access your blocked apps, fostering a better balance between real life and screen time.

Highlights
  • App blocking for time management
  • Earn in-app currency through healthy habits
  • Spend currency to unlock apps
  • Track reclaimed screen time
  • Short educational courses
  • Streak tracking for habit reinforcement
Features
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Meet Tino — a soft little cat who needs your attention more than your feeds do. Tino locks the apps that eat your time. To open them, you pay in Fishies — and you earn Fishies by living: a walk, ten push-ups, a made bed, a page of journaling, a glass of water in the morning or bite-size learning. How it works • Pick the apps that pull you in — Tino keeps them closed • Do small healthy actions, earn Fishies • Spend Fishies for exactly the minutes you want — when they run out, life resumes What you may get back • Up to 90 reclaimed hours a month • Screen-free nights and calmer mornings • Tiny 8-card courses on anything you're curious about — made just for you • Streaks that make good days easier to repeat No shame, no guilt — just a kind cat and a fair trade: real life in, scroll time out. PRIVATE & SAFE Tino uses Apple's Screen Time API to block the apps you choose. Blocking works entirely on your device — Apple never shares your app list with us, and we never see what you browse. Photos you take to verify activities are used only to check that the activity was done, and are never stored or shared. Tino never records audio. TERMS, PRIVACY & CONDITIONS Read on https://tinocat.com/terms & https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tinocat.com/privacy

About

Barake

Features
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Screen time is earned. Barake is a parental control app that ends the nightly bargaining: your kid does their chores and passes their quizzes, you approve, and the minutes they earn unlock their apps. When the counter reaches zero, everything locks again — no stepping in, no reminding. HOW IT WORKS 1. You choose the apps to limit: whole categories (Games, Social media…) or specific apps. 2. Your kid earns minutes: with chores you approve in one tap, and with short quizzes that grade themselves. 3. The minutes unlock their apps. They use them whenever they like. At zero, the apps lock again. CHORES, WITHOUT THE NAGGING • A catalog of everyday tasks with suggested minutes: tidy your room, set the table, homework, reading… • You decide what each task is worth and which days it comes back. • A photo as proof, when you ask for one. • A notification when a task is waiting for you. Declined? Add a note about what's missing, and they send it again. • Gift minutes, no task needed, whenever you like. QUIZZES FOR MINUTES Short multiple-choice quizzes matched to your kid's age or grade, starting with math. A time limit per question, an explanation for every answer, and the minutes land as soon as they pass — nothing for you to check. Didn't pass? Another try later. YOU STAY IN CHARGE • A daily cap on the minutes they can earn. • A bedtime: after that, nothing unlocks until morning. • Apps that are always allowed: Phone, Messages, school apps. • A parent code protects the settings on their phone. • Follow everything from your own phone: minutes earned, used and left. On your kid's iPhone, Barake uses Apple's Screen Time, with your approval as the parent in Family Sharing. Setup takes about ten minutes, step by step. PRIVACY Barake blocks and unblocks apps; it never reads what your kid does in them. On iPhone, Apple doesn't even share the names of the chosen apps with Barake. No ads, no data sold, no tracking on your kid's phone. Task photos are deleted after 30 days. SUBSCRIPTION 7-day free trial, then a monthly or yearly subscription. One subscription covers all your kids. If the subscription stops, every block is lifted on your kid's phone: we don't lock a kid out over a payment. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://barake.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://barake.app/privacy

Screenshots

Tino4 screens
Barake4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tino and Barake 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tino sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Barake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tino ships an update every 2 weeks, Barake weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tino versus Barake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinoBarake
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB65 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperElephant Enterprises LLCOrizon 42

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tino

Subscriptions1
  • Tino Pro3 Days trial$4.997 Days
2 purchases

Barake

Subscriptions2
  • Barake premium3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Barake premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Tino free?
Tino is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Barake free?
Barake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tino or Barake have ads?
Both Tino and Barake show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tino or Barake?
Tino ships an update every 2 weeks, and Barake weekly. Most recently, Tino was updated on October 29, 2026 and Barake on October 31, 2026.

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