Comparison

ScreenLocation vs Locked Inn

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

Head to head
About

ScreenLocation

Features
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Block the apps you lose time to, at the places you lose it. ScreenLocation notices the places you go, names them using Apple's own map data, and lets you shut distracting apps off while you are there. Block social media at your desk. Block games at the gym. They come back on their own the moment you leave. You never tag a location, name a place, or confirm anything. SET A LIMIT - Pick a place, pick the apps, done - Those apps are blocked while you are there and released when you leave - Turn a limit off for an afternoon without deleting it - Limits follow the place, not a schedule you have to maintain SEE WHERE IT GOES - Screen time attributed to each place you visit - Ranked, so you can see which places actually cost you - Every day charted by place, over any date range - Every place gets a street address, whether or not a business was identified HOW THE NAMING WORKS Home and Work are worked out purely from your own pattern - where your phone spends its nights, and where it spends weekday working hours. Anywhere else, the app asks Apple's map data what business sits at that spot. If nothing is listed, it uses the street name. It will not guess. If two shops sit side by side and a visit cannot tell them apart, it shows the address and offers you the choice. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no analytics, no ads, no third parties. The only network use is a single map lookup when a brand-new place is first detected, so that it can be given a name. FREE TRIAL, THEN ONE PAYMENT Everything is unlocked for 7 days. After that, tracking and the limits you have already set keep working. Adding new limits and the Trends tab need a one-time $1.99 purchase - kept for good, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. No subscription. WHAT IT NEEDS - "Always" location access, so places can be detected while the app is closed. It uses Apple's low-power visit monitoring, not continuous GPS tracking. - Screen Time access, Apple's own permission for setting app limits and reading usage. A NOTE ON ACCURACY iOS does not give third-party apps a live running total of usage, so per-place minutes are estimated from usage thresholds and will not add up exactly to the figure in Settings. Time spent travelling between places is deliberately left out rather than assigned to whichever place happened to be nearest. Apple's own exact daily total is shown inside the app so you can always compare.

About

Locked Inn

Features
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Lock Inn eliminates all distractions by disabling all apps for users. Users are able to customize how long they want to stay locked in for.

Screenshots

ScreenLocation4 screens
Locked Inn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Locked Inn at none against ScreenLocation's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. ScreenLocation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Locked Inn asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 4 level
ScreenLocation versus Locked Inn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenLocationLocked Inn
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew MeyersJameszhi Liu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ScreenLocation

One-time1
  • Trends$1.99
None

Locked Inn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ScreenLocation free?
ScreenLocation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Locked Inn free?
Locked Inn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ScreenLocation or Locked Inn have ads?
Neither ScreenLocation nor Locked Inn shows ads.

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