Comparison

TimeUp vs Scriven Key

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

Head to head
About

TimeUp

Features
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TimeUp turns your screen time into real rewards. Create your own rules, earn minutes by moving, walking, sleeping, or completing mini-challenges, then use your balance to unlock time on the apps you choose. Every rule is fully customizable: set what earns time, the limits, and track your progress over the days. When your balance is empty, the limit automatically resumes. Protect your sleep, work, or study time with scheduled app blocking. Add multiple schedules and choose the days and hours when selected apps stay blocked, even if you have minutes left. Overlapping schedules work together: apps stay blocked until all active schedules have ended. Outside these hours, access still depends on your available minutes. With TimeUp, you can: β€’ Earn time with your exercise, steps, sleep, or mindfulness minutes, if you allow access to Apple Health. β€’ Launch an express challenge: do 5 push-ups or 5 squats to add 5 minutes. The camera analyzes your movements locally on the iPhone; no images are saved. β€’ Customize rules, time, and limits per activity. β€’ Choose which apps to manage with Apple's Screen Time features. β€’ Schedule app blocking for sleep, work, or study, independently of your minute balance. β€’ View your balance, history, and a summary of the last 7 days. β€’ Use a simple interface, with no account and no ads.

About

Scriven Key

Features
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Type less. Write better. Scriven Key is an intelligent writing keyboard that turns rough notes, fragments, abbreviations, and shorthand into clear, natural prose. Write quickly without worrying about capitalization, punctuation, or perfect phrasing, then let Scriven make your message ready to send. POLISH YOUR WRITING Convert compressed thoughts into concise professional communication. Scriven corrects spelling and grammar, improves clarity and flow, and preserves your intended meaningβ€”including names, dates, times, requests, uncertainty, and responsibility. CHOOSE THE RIGHT STYLE β€’ Polish creates clear, natural professional prose. β€’ Condense removes filler without dropping important details. β€’ Expand turns shorthand into complete prose. β€’ Warm, Formal, Playful, Victorian, and Emoji change the tone without changing the message. β€’ Sarcasm, Absurd, Pun, Anti-Joke, Kid Logic, and Fake Text turn context into concise internet-native humor. Actions are arranged in swipeable 3Γ—3 pages so more useful choices stay within reach. DRAFT OR CONTINUE When no text is selected, Scriven uses the context before your cursor to predict a useful reply or continuation. In an empty reply field, Scriven can use copied messages or on-device text recognition from a copied screenshot. Choose Quick Reply, Agree, Decline, Ask, Buy Time, Empathize, Make a Plan, Make It Funny, or Change Subject. An optional temporary tray combines up to three copied items for conversational context. Select text whenever you want to transform existing writing. PLAY WITHOUT LEAVING Open the Games panel and swipe through focused quick games including Pong, Breakout, Merge Tiles, Four in a Row, Chess with an on-device opponent, verified context-aware AI Trivia, Blocks, 4Γ—4 Mini Sudoku, Minesweeper, Coin Call, and lighter classics. Games respond with animation, haptics, combos, scores, and clear round outcomes. Use Surprise to choose a game at random and insert results directly into the conversation. If a rewrite is not right, restore your original text with one tap. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scriven uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models and Vision text recognition. Your writing, copied text, and copied screenshots used for reply context are processed on your iPhone. Full Access is required only so the keyboard can read the system clipboard. The context tray lasts only for the keyboard-extension session, obvious copied verification codes are ignored, and Scriven does not store or transmit clipboard contents. Scriven has no account, backend, cloud storage, analytics SDK, or network-based AI service. Scriven requires an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone with Apple Intelligence enabled.

Screenshots

TimeUp4 screens
Scriven Key4 screens

Verdict

The call

TimeUp and Scriven Key are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TimeUp versus Scriven Key: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeUpScriven Key
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size16 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGabriel Langon MaomyScriven

In-app purchases

None

TimeUp

No in-app purchases

None

Scriven Key

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeUp free?
TimeUp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scriven Key free?
Scriven Key is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimeUp or Scriven Key have ads?
Neither TimeUp nor Scriven Key shows ads.

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