Comparison

Feedlock vs FeedOff

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

Head to head
About

Feedlock

This app helps you regain control over your phone usage by creating intentional barriers to distracting applications. It offers a unique 'breathing gate' before app access and a 'strict mode' for unbreakable blocks, with an optional accountability partner feature.

Highlights
  • App and site blocking
  • Breathing gate before app access
  • Strict Mode for unbreakable blocks
  • Recurring schedules
  • Accountability partner feature
  • Adult-site filtering
  • Stats and history
Features
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You don't decide to lose an hour. You just open the app. Feedlock puts a wall in front of the apps that eat your evenings and a slow breath in front of the wall. Not a timer you'll ignore. Not a limit you'll tap past. A real stop. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick what pulls you in. Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, news whatever your thumb goes to without asking. 2. Feedlock shields them using Apple's own Screen Time lock. 3. When you reach for one anyway, you get a breath and a question: what are you actually here for? Most of the time, that's enough. You put the phone down. WHEN A BREATH ISN'T ENOUGH Strict Mode locks a block so that even you can't lift it early. Pick an hour, an evening, or until 7 AM, hold to confirm, and it's done. No settings menu to sneak into at 1 AM. That's the point. Schedules put it on rails sleep hours, work hours, every weekday so you stop having to decide. THE PART NOBODY ELSE DOES Name a friend as your witness. If you override a block, they're told. That's it. No lectures, no dashboards — just someone who knows. It turns out that being seen is the cheapest willpower there is, and it changes what you do at 1 AM more than any app ever will. They can send you a nudge back. You can drop them any time. WHAT YOU GET FREE - Block as many apps and sites as you want - The breathing gate before every one - 7 days of stats: what you dodged, and the time you got back FEEDLOCK PRO - Strict Mode blocks you can't lift early - Recurring schedules - Your accountability partner - Full history, trends and patterns - Adult-site filtering across the whole phone - Alternate app icons PRIVACY Feedlock can't see what you browse, and doesn't want to. Your quiz answers never leave your phone. There is no ad tracking, no advertising SDK, and no data sold ever. Sign in with Apple or an email address. Your blocks, streak, schedules and witness live on your account, so they follow you to a new phone. --- Feedlock Pro is available as a yearly subscription that renews until you cancel, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

FeedOff

This app provides a calmer browsing experience for social media and video platforms by hiding distracting elements like feeds, recommendations, and ads. It allows users to customize which features are visible for each platform, offering a more focused and private way to access content.

Highlights
  • Hide Reels, Shorts, and For You pages
  • Block ads and autoplay
  • Customize platform views
  • Schedule app blocking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Instagram without the Reels. YouTube without the Shorts. X without For You. Free. FeedOff opens Instagram, YouTube, X, Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook in a calmer browser with the parts built to keep you scrolling hidden: Reels, Shorts, Explore, For You, suggested posts, ads and autoplay. Your DMs, stories, profiles, search, subscriptions and posting all keep working. It's the real site, with less of it. THE CALM BROWSER • Instagram: no Reels tab, no Explore, no suggested posts, no ads. Home feed of people you follow, stories, DMs, profiles and posting stay. Optional: hide AI-labelled posts, hide reposts, or hide the whole feed and keep only stories. • YouTube: opens on your Subscriptions. No Shorts, no Home recommendations, no autoplay-next, no video ads. Search, watch, history and playlists stay. • X: opens on Following. No For You, no trends, no promoted posts. • Reddit: your communities, no Home or Popular feed, no ads, no "Open App" prompts. • LinkedIn: messages, notifications and jobs, no feed. • Facebook: groups, Marketplace, messages and events. No News Feed, no Reels, no 'People you may know'. • Every one of these is a toggle. Want Explore back? Flip it. • Grayscale per app, if colour is what pulls you in. THE SHIELD • Block the real apps on a schedule, or always. They open to a calm block screen that points back to FeedOff. Works for TikTok and any other app too. • Built on Apple's Screen Time, so it's reliable and private: FeedOff never sees which apps you pick or how long you use them. • Notifications from the real apps still arrive, so you never miss a message. • Someone sent you a link? Copy it and open FeedOff: the post opens here, without the feed. WIDGETS • Each platform as a Home Screen and Lock Screen widget. Put them where the real icons used to be. One tap, no feed. • Control Center buttons and Siri shortcuts too. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up. You log in to each site directly, in Apple's standard web view. FeedOff never sees your password. • Everything stays on your phone. No analytics, no tracking, no server. • The only thing FeedOff downloads is a small public file of filter rules, so fixes reach you without waiting for an app update. Read it on GitHub. FREE No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. The paid apps in this category charge monthly for app blocking and ad hiding. FeedOff includes both. FeedOff is an independent app. It isn't made by or connected to Instagram, YouTube, X, Reddit, LinkedIn or Facebook. Made for people who want their evenings back.

Screenshots

Feedlock4 screens
FeedOff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Feedlock at 5.0 against FeedOff's 4.2. FeedOff's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Feedlock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. FeedOff asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Feedlock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FeedOff has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Feedlock versus FeedOff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeedlockFeedOff
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB2 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKarim KhaledPeter Khalil

Customer experience

Feedlock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FeedOff

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Feedlock

Subscriptions1
  • Feedlock Pro — Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Feedlock Pro — Lifetime$79.99
None

FeedOff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Feedlock free?
Feedlock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FeedOff free?
FeedOff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Feedlock or FeedOff?
Feedlock is rated higher. Feedlock averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while FeedOff averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Feedlock or FeedOff have ads?
Neither Feedlock nor FeedOff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Feedlock or FeedOff?
Feedlock ships an update weekly, and FeedOff weekly. Most recently, Feedlock was updated on October 31, 2026 and FeedOff on November 6, 2026.

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