HourLimit vs Rack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HourLimit
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Daily screen time limits are easy to break. You burn the whole allowance before lunch, and the rest of the day has no guardrails at all. HourLimit works in hours instead. Give an app 15 minutes per hour, and when those 15 minutes are gone the app is blocked — until the top of the next hour, when the limit resets and you get a clean slate. Every hour, all day. It turns "I've blown it for today" into "I'll get another shot in 20 minutes." HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps that pull you in • Give each one a limit between 1 and 60 minutes per hour • HourLimit blocks the app the moment its limit is spent • At the top of the hour, every limit resets automatically WHAT YOU GET • Hourly limits, not daily ones — a fresh start every 60 minutes • Real blocking through Apple's Screen Time, so it works even when HourLimit is closed • A calm dashboard showing what's left this hour for each app • A heads-up notification when a limit is reached • An optional reminder at the start of each new hour • Quiet hours, so nothing buzzes while you sleep • Adjust or remove any limit at any time — changes apply immediately BUILT TO BE CALM No streaks, no scores, no shaming graphs. HourLimit blocks an app and tells you when it's coming back. That's the whole product. PRIVACY Your limits and Screen Time usage stay on your iPhone. There is no account and no analytics. HourLimit uses Apple's Screen Time framework, which never reveals which apps you limit or how you use them. Purchases are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat. FREE AND PRO Save as many apps as you like. Free lets you keep up to 3 app limits active at once. Pro lets you activate every saved limit, with a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. REQUIREMENTS HourLimit needs Screen Time (Family Controls) permission to block apps. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Rack
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"I have nothing to wear" is almost never true. Rack is a digital closet that dresses you from the clothes already hanging in your room. No shopping feed, no strangers' wardrobes. Just yours. Photograph each piece once. Rack cuts the background out, reads its color and files it away. From then on, getting dressed stops being a decision you make half-awake in front of the mirror. WHAT TO WEAR TODAY Mornings, decided. • The Rack: every morning your outfit hangs on a rail, one hanger per category, picked for the season from clothes you own. • Tap to swap: tap a piece to try the next one, hold to go back, swipe the rail to reshuffle the whole look. • Eight occasions: casual, work, formal, sport, party, loungewear, travel and special. Pick where you're going and Rack pulls from your closet to match. YOUR DIGITAL CLOSET Everything you own, in one place. • Snap and done: take a photo and the background disappears automatically. • Import from a link: paste any product page and it lands on your wishlist with the photo, name, brand and price filled in. • Organized for you: sorted by category, tagged by color, season and occasion. BUILD YOUR OWN LOOKS A blank canvas and your own clothes. • Fit Builder: swipe through tops, bottoms, shoes and extras until it clicks. • Canvas boards: drop pieces onto a board, move them around, draw on it and save the look. • Inspo drawer: save posts from Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest into a mood board of looks to recreate. PLAN THE WEEK Get ahead of Monday. • The Drawer: decide tomorrow's fit tonight, or line up the whole week. • Calendar sync: planned outfits appear in your iCloud, Google or Outlook calendar. • Get-ready reminders: a nudge at the time you choose, with the outfit already picked. KNOW WHAT YOU OWN The honest numbers. • Cost-per-wear: see which pieces pay for themselves. • Closet value: what everything you own is actually worth. • Color palette: the colors your closet really runs on. • Gathering dust: the honest list of what you haven't touched in months. KEEP THE STREAK It gets better the more you wear. • Wear streaks: log today's outfit in one tap and keep the run going. • 30 achievements to earn along the way. • Monthly recap: your month in clothes on one card, made to screenshot and send. SHOW IT OFF Posted, not just planned. • Rack Drop: turn today's fit, a canvas board or your whole closet into a 9:16 story poster. Four templates, as a still or an animated video. • Outfit cards sized for Instagram, iMessage and WhatsApp. MAKE IT YOURS • 14 app icons: six colorways and seven animal characters. • Wardrobe export: an itemized, valued PDF or spreadsheet of everything you own, exactly what a home insurer asks for. • Sync: your closet follows you to every device and survives a lost phone. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads. No trackers. No followers. Your closet is never public and your data is never sold. Delete your account and everything goes with it, straight from Settings. WHAT RACK IS Digital Closet · Virtual Closet · Closet Organizer · Outfit Planner · Outfit Maker · What to Wear · Daily Outfit · OOTD · Outfit Calendar · Lookbook · Mood Board · Fashion Wishlist · Cost-Per-Wear Tracker · Wardrobe Analytics · Capsule Wardrobe SUBSCRIPTIONS Rack is free to download, with a 9-piece sample closet to test-drive every feature. To build your own closet with unlimited pieces, choose Rack Weekly or Rack Monthly. Monthly adds week-ahead planning, the monthly recap, wardrobe export and every app icon. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://rack-backend.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://rack-backend.vercel.app/privacy.html Support: https://rack-backend.vercel.app/support.html Instagram: @therackkapp · X: @therackappp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: HourLimit at 17.0 against Rack's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. HourLimit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Rack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HourLimit | Rack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sercan PASPAL | Khizar Alam |
In-app purchases
HourLimit
- HourLimit Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- HourLimit Pro Lifetime$14.99
Rack
- rack Weekly$4.997 Days
- rack Monthly$9.991 Month









