PlainWalk vs ScrollCop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlainWalk
This app transforms your walks into a visual exploration by drawing your path on a blank map in real-time. It highlights newly explored roads and emphasizes frequently traveled routes, encouraging you to discover new streets and alleys. Your location data stays private on your device.
- Real-time trail drawing on a blank map
- Pioneered distance tracking for first-time roads
- Road thickness indicates frequency of travel
- Background recording
- Live Activity and Home Screen widget
- Real-map view overlay
- Pinning spots with photos and notes
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PlainWalk is a walking app where you draw a pure white map with your own feet. Open the app and the map is empty. Start walking, and only the roads you actually walked appear, one line at a time. Roads you take often grow darker and thicker. Roads you walk for the first time are recorded as ground you pioneered. Take a different street home tonight. Turn into the alley you have never tried. Small adventures like these stay on your map. ■ Features ・Your trail is drawn onto the blank map in real time ・Runs, rides and drives are recorded too. PlainWalk tells them apart, and you choose which ones to draw ・First-time roads count toward your pioneered distance ・Roads you walk often grow thicker, revealing the shape of your daily life ・Background recording keeps going after you close the screen ・Live Activity shows your distance on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island ・A Home Screen widget shows today's pioneered distance and your map ・A real-map view overlays your trail on the actual streets ・Daily walk history with trail previews ・Pin "spots" to your map with a photo, a category and a note ・Replay a single walk, or watch your whole map grow as a timelapse ■ Privacy Your location and walking records are stored only on your device. Nothing is ever sent to a server, and no account is required. Why not turn that still-blank corner on today's walk? —————— PlainWalk Plus (auto-renewable subscription) Unlocks map colour schemes, trail and photo pin styles, area badge details with crystal finishes, town replays, cat coats and a hedgehog, automatic recording and recording from home and work, several flags and unlimited Someday places, workouts from Apple Health on your map, your own LUTs, sticker finishes, and the Around you and Your region widgets, and removes ads. The blank map, all statistics and the pioneer ranks stay free. - Monthly and yearly plans. Prices are shown in the app for your region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bitpackman.github.io/plainwalk/privacy.en.html
ScrollCop
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Every app blocker has an off switch. At 11 p.m. you will find it. ScrollCop is a friendly cop for your phone: you decide, before the urge, who gets to let your apps out. BLOCK APPS IN TWO TAPS Tap the apps that eat your time: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, or any app on your phone, plus whole categories and websites. Pick how long. The apps disappear from your Home Screen and won't open until time's up. It runs on Apple's Screen Time, so it holds even if you close ScrollCop. Try to open one and you get pulled over. YOU CHOOSE WHO CAN END IT EARLY Every block starts as "Nobody", so it really holds. Change it with one tap: • Me: end it whenever you want, after a ten-second pause. • Nobody: not even you. It opens when time's up. • A friend: ScrollCop texts them a one-time PIN. Only that PIN ends the block early. Your friend doesn't need the app. Want it even stronger? Give a friend your key, and codes come only from their phone. Locks hold even if you change the date or time, and ScrollCop can't be deleted while a locked block runs. Schedules start locked too. SCHEDULES THAT RUN EVERY DAY Block apps at the same time every day, automatically, even with ScrollCop closed. Give each schedule its own apps: games during study time, social apps at dinner, everything at bedtime. Choose who can switch it off: you, nobody, or your friend. Start from Bedtime, Mornings, Work hours, Study time or Dinner, or make your own. A COP THAT CHEERS YOU ON Over 5,000 short, original lines turn up around the app: on Home, while a block runs, on the screen you see when you try to open a blocked app, and when a block is done. Some are jokes, some are pep talks, all of them are on your side. Every block you finish is a numbered case, and the cop salutes when you close one. 165 THINGS TO DO INSTEAD Bored? Stressed? Up too late? ScrollCop suggests three small things that fit the time you have and the time of day: stretch for three minutes, write a two-line poem, tidy one drawer, lay out tomorrow's clothes. Tap "Show me three others" for more. A PLAN FOR THE URGE Decide once what you'll do when the pull hits: drink a glass of water, do ten squats, text a friend. Your plan shows up on the screen a blocked app opens to, right when you need it. SOS FOR THE MOMENT IT HITS Tap "I feel the urge" and ScrollCop asks what you actually need: bored, stressed, tired, lonely, avoiding something. It gives you one small thing to do instead, then checks whether the pull dropped. BOREDOM GYM Scrolling trained you to fill every gap. This trains the opposite: short exercises in sitting with nothing, thirty seconds first, then longer. YOUR WEEK AT A GLANCE One sentence about your week, a simple chart, an optional weekly goal and three plain numbers, like "45 min blocked today" and "12 days in a row without your blocked apps". Everything else is one tap away, each number with a line saying what it means. Counted on your phone. A slip is data, not failure. No guilt notifications. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No ads, no analytics, no subscription. Apple's Screen Time gives ScrollCop opaque tokens, so it can't see which apps you use. Export or delete everything whenever you like. Free. Made in Canada. A behaviour-change tool, not medical advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ScrollCop at none against PlainWalk's 4. ScrollCop also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. PlainWalk sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per month. ScrollCop asks for nothing beyond the download.
PlainWalk ships an update every 3 days, ScrollCop every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | PlainWalk | ScrollCop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KANTA KOKONNO | Jashandeep Singh |
In-app purchases
PlainWalk
- PlainWalk Plus Monthly$2.691 Month
- PlainWalk Plus Yearly7 Days trial$26.901 Year
- Remove Ads$5.99
- PlainWalk Plus Lifetime$79.99
ScrollCop
No in-app purchases









