Comparison

HourLimit vs WidgetAim

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

Head to head
About

HourLimit

Features
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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/

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WidgetAim

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Put your aims where you look 100 times a day. WidgetAim turns what you're working toward into a living widget: a trip fund, an exam date, 500 Spanish words, a moving checklist, this month's bills. Tap +1, tick an item or flip a card right on your Home Screen, and watch it move. EIGHT KINDS OF AIM • Countdown: days until the trip, the exam, the launch. With Pro, link it to a calendar event and it stays right. • Numbers: money saved, miles run, pages read. Add to it from the widget with one tap. • Daily check-ins: tap the check. The widget shows your week and your pace. • Flashcards: a new card on your Home Screen every day. Tap to see the answer. • Sentences: real sentences for a situation you pick. Listen, say them out loud, and keep the words you don't know as flashcards. • Lists: packing, moving, a reading list. Tick items off from the widget. • Bills: rent, utilities, subscriptions. See what's paid and what's left this month. • Apple Health (Pro): steps, sleep and weight fill themselves in. EVERY AIM GETS ITS OWN SCENE 26 hand-made scenes: a jar that fills with coins, a plane that lands, a sprout that grows. A scene plays once when your progress changes, then rests. Nothing loops in the background. Every kind has a free scene; Pro unlocks all 26. MAKE IT YOURS Widget Studio shows 28 styles, your own colors, six typefaces and four layouts as live previews before you pick. Free includes 8 styles, 2 typefaces and 2 layouts; Pro unlocks the rest. Small, medium, large and extra-large Home Screen widgets, plus Lock Screen widgets. ON YOUR WRIST An Apple Watch app that stays in sync with your iPhone. Check in, add to a number, tick a list item, answer a flashcard or mark a bill paid. Complications included. Free shows your first aim on your watch; Pro shows them all. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. Your aims live on your iPhone, with an automatic backup in your own iCloud. Anonymous usage statistics never include what's in your widgets, and you can turn them off in Settings. 11 LANGUAGES English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Português (Brasil), العربية, 日本語, 한국어 and 繁體中文. Switch languages inside the app. FREE AND PRO Free, with nothing that expires: up to 3 widgets, 8 styles and a scene for every kind, Lock Screen widgets, iCloud backup, and the flashcards, sentences and lists you write yourself. Free also shows your first aim on Apple Watch, and lets you set up one widget from a sentence to try AI. WidgetAim Pro adds: • All 28 styles and 26 scenes, your own colors, every typeface and layout • Every aim on Apple Watch • Apple Health and Calendar links • Unlimited widgets • Set up a widget from one sentence • Fill in a form from a sentence • AI flashcard decks on any topic • AI sentence sets, every word explained • Edit a widget by chatting • A weekly summary of your aims AI features ask for your permission first and send only what each request needs. Widgets you made keep working, and keep their look, if Pro ends. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS WidgetAim Pro is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://widgetaim.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://widgetaim.com/privacy

Screenshots

HourLimit4 screens
WidgetAim4 screens

Verdict

The call

HourLimit and WidgetAim 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. HourLimit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and WidgetAim sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HourLimit ships an update weekly, WidgetAim every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HourLimit versus WidgetAim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHourLimitWidgetAim
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSercan PASPALAimPoly LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HourLimit

Subscriptions1
  • HourLimit Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • HourLimit Pro Lifetime$14.99
2 purchases

WidgetAim

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is HourLimit free?
HourLimit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WidgetAim free?
WidgetAim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HourLimit or WidgetAim have ads?
Neither HourLimit nor WidgetAim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HourLimit or WidgetAim?
HourLimit ships an update weekly, and WidgetAim every 5 days. Most recently, HourLimit was updated on October 24, 2026 and WidgetAim on October 16, 2026.

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