Comparison

Impedo vs Jeolmi

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

Head to head
About

Impedo

Features
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Blocking an app is easy. The hard part is not unblocking it five minutes later. Impedo was built for that second part. Pick the apps, pick a duration, tap BLOCK. They stop opening. When the urge to quit early hits, the Insistent Shield steps in and rolls a task: wait it out, solve a sum in your head, shake your iPhone, walk a few steps, or clear a memory game. You can still quit — just not on impulse. All of it runs on Apple's own Screen Time. No VPN, no third-party profile, no data leaving your iPhone. THE BLOCK TURNS ITSELF ON • By place: pin your work, your school, the gym. Arrive and it's on. Leave and it's off. • By schedule: recurring windows for sleep, work, or study. Set once, forget. • By Focus: turn on an iPhone Focus and Impedo's block turns on with it. WITHOUT OPENING THE APP • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with the time left. • Home Screen widget and a Control Center control to start, stop, or check. • Apple Watch: pick a duration and block from your wrist, with a watch face complication. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Block my apps with Impedo". THE BLOCK SCREEN IS YOURS Color, icon, title, subtitle, and button of the screen that covers a blocked app. You decide whether the button just closes the app or opens the way out — through the Insistent Shield when it's on. YOUR TIME, IN NUMBERS A report with your screen time by hour and by day, the apps that pull you in most, the time you got back, and your day streak. LOCK IMPEDO ITSELF Face ID or a passcode to open the app, so no one turns off your block for you. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE: EVERYTHING Impedo uses Apple's FamilyControls — neither the app nor anyone here can see which apps you use. The report's figures are drawn by an isolated Apple extension: the app shows them on screen but never receives the data. No account, no sign-up, no ads. FREE TO START One manual block a day and one place, no card needed. Premium unlocks unlimited blocks, recurring schedules, up to 20 places, the custom block screen, and blocked-attempt history — yearly or lifetime.

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Jeolmi

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Jeolmi is a focus timer and to-do list with a small paper seal that copies whatever you write. Type "read chapter 4" and the seal picks up a book. Type "pay rent" and it brings a wallet (empty, it apologizes). Tap start, lock your phone, and the seal is on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, holding the prop next to your task while the timer runs. Every real 25 minutes of focus inks one grape on today's bunch. Checked-off tasks add grapes too, drawn dotted so you can tell them apart. Fill the day's grape slots and the seal sits up and claps. Once a day. What the seal does Ā· Copies your task with a paper prop, live as you type. There are 32 props to find, and the ones you find stay on your prop shelf. Ā· Stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you focus. Done, Pause and +5 work without opening the app. Ā· Says one dry line per state. It never coaches and never guilts. Ā· Wears what you give it: outfits, body colors, a four-slot desk. Outfits, desk items and two of the body colors cost Jelly, which you earn by focusing and finishing tasks. Nothing is random. Ā· Goes for a swim once today's grapes are filled and comes back with one line. If you take a few days off, it folds you a paper crane. It never counts the days you missed. Everything below is free Ā· Timer: count up with no cap, a 25-minute countdown, or any length from 5 to 240 minutes. Keeps running if the app is closed Ā· Tasks: tap to check one off, or make it timed and see today's minutes on it. Today, tomorrow, weekday routines, subjects with colors Ā· D-day: finals, SAT, ACT, custom dates, D+ after the day Ā· Widgets: Home Screen and Lock Screen, with today's tasks, grapes and your D-day. Check tasks off right on the widget Ā· Live Activity with the seal and your task, also in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one Ā· Stats: a month of grapes, hours per subject, days showed up, lifetime hours Share, if you want A card of today's grapes, a mirror card with your task and the prop, a transparent sticker of your seal for notes apps and Stories, and a three-second clip of the flop or the clap. Nothing is posted anywhere by itself. Quiet by design One note a day at most, in the seal's voice, at a time you pick (8 p.m. unless you change it). A heads-up when a countdown ends. Quiet Mode is one tap. Days showed up are counted, never used against you: two freezes refill on their own, and no message ever says something is at risk. Stays on your phone Everything stays on your phone. There is no sign-up and no email, and your tasks and records never leave the device unless you share a card yourself. The app sends only anonymous usage statistics, never what you write, to help improve it. Your records are part of your iPhone's own backup (iCloud Backup or a computer backup), so restoring or moving to a new iPhone brings them along. In English, Korean and Japanese: it follows your iPhone, and you can switch any time in Settings → Language. Jeolmi is a spotted seal pup named after injeolmi, the Korean rice cake it resembles. It insists it is a seal, not a sea lion. This matters to it.

Screenshots

Impedo4 screens
Jeolmi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jeolmi at none against Impedo's 2. Impedo's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Impedo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year. Jeolmi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Impedo versus Jeolmi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpedoJeolmi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.226.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiMonster Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA.Jaewook Jung

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Impedo

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Subscription$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Impedo Premium Lifetime$24.99
None

Jeolmi

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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