Comparison

Sit Still vs Vareio Quest

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

Head to head
About

Sit Still

This app helps you focus by blocking distracting applications and offering a calming timer experience. Earn rewards by staying focused to unlock new cozy rooms and accessories for your virtual cat companion.

Highlights
  • App blocking modes (Companionship, Whitelist, Strict)
  • Scheduled app locking
  • Customizable timer shapes (countdown, open-ended, pomodoro)
  • Collectible illustrated rooms with unique soundscapes
  • Virtual cat companion with unlockable accessories
  • Task list syncing with Reminders
  • Session history and streak tracking
Features
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Sit Still is a focus timer and app blocker that gives you somewhere to be. Most focus apps punish you, Sit Still keeps you company. A cat sleeps in a painted room while you work, and the reward for sitting still is a collection you build. Blocking is real, and as firm as you want it to be. The rooms are the heart of it: watercolour illustrations painted like the pages of a childhood picture book, meant to feel cozy and nostalgic — to stir a memory of being small and safe somewhere — each with its own soundscape. APP BLOCKING FEATURES Three app blocking modes for a focus session: Open, Whitelist and Strict. Additionally, app blocking rules allow you to put away the apps that keep distracting you throughout the day. You can lock the apps on a schedule of your own or hold them to a daily limit. You can also set a bedtime lock on a night schedule you choose. WALLPAPERS AND WIDGETS Any room you have can be saved to your Photos as a wallpaper, drawn at the full resolution of your phone or iPad, with your cat in the corner or without it. There are widgets too: the room you are sitting in with your focus stats under it, the collection with a different room every hour, a calendar of the month with your cat beside it, and your streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. A TIMER WITH THREE SHAPES Countdown, open-ended, or pomodoro. The pomodoro starts at the classic 25 / 5 / 15, and all three lengths are yours to change. A session carries on with the screen locked, and shows itself on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A COLLECTION OF ROOMS A permanent collection of rooms, from a bookshop loft in Porto to a stilt house on the Mekong Delta, and two new rooms on the first of every month that leave with it. Every room has its own illustration and its own ambience loop, levelled against all the others so changing rooms is never a lurch. On iPad, every room opens out into a wide painting, upright or sideways. A CAT, AND THINGS FOR IT TO WEAR Six companions, hand-drawn and animated. Focusing earns whiskers, and whiskers buy cat accessories and the monthly rooms. Pet the cat and it notices. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, AND WHAT YOU DID A task list that stays in sync with your phone's own Reminders. A record of every session — hours, streaks, and the note you left about what you were working on. Sit Still Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in Settings › your Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://alteraapps.com/sit-still/privacy/

About

Vareio Quest

Features
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Turn your life into a quest. Vareio Quest turns goals into contracts you seal with yourself — and every achievement becomes a real 3D object in a hall that grows with you: the violin on the wall, the belt's kimono, the diploma, the new car on its pedestal, trophies on the shelf and the books you've read on the bookcase. THE BOOK OF CONTRACTS Every goal starts with a contract: the achievement you want, the tasks it asks of you each week and the reward you pay yourself when you complete the day. With or without a deadline, your way. Pick the object from more than 100 3D models. TODAY'S TASKS The daily board gathers what each contract asks of you today, by period and time: • Check-off, count, timed or Pomodoro tasks • Pomodoro with focus, short and long breaks — automatic or step by step, with or without breaks • Timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island (Live Activity), with pause, complete and give up • Postpone just today's occurrence, skip a day or fit in an occasional task without breaking the week • Your day turns over at your time, not at midnight A HALL THAT TELLS YOUR STORY Rotate the camera, get close to each piece and open the contract's sheet. What's on track shines; what's forgotten starts to fade. Take the spyglass tour and record a video to share. REPORTS Week, month and year: tasks done over planned, adherence, time spent, Pomodoro sessions and the balance between body, mind, relationships, craft and possessions. SIMPLE AND HONEST • No account, no ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your iPhone, with automatic daily backups and restore • In Portuguese, English and Spanish PREMIUM Your first 2 contracts are free. Vareio Quest Premium unlocks unlimited contracts. • Yearly auto-renewable subscription; the price is shown on the purchase screen, in your account's currency • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings Terms of Use: https://ismaeldf.github.io/vareio-quest/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://ismaeldf.github.io/vareio-quest/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sit Still4 screens
Vareio Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sit Still and Vareio Quest are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Sit Still sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Vareio Quest sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sit Still versus Vareio Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSit StillVareio Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB96 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJohannes ButzkeIsmael Melo

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sit Still

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$34.991 Year
1 purchases

Vareio Quest

Subscriptions1
  • Vareio Quest Premium$6.991 Year

Questions

Is Sit Still free?
Sit Still is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vareio Quest free?
Vareio Quest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sit Still or Vareio Quest have ads?
Neither Sit Still nor Vareio Quest shows ads.

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