SecondCue vs ScreenSunset
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
SecondCue
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Be ready when the moment opens. SecondCue helps you rehearse ticket sales, presales, limited releases, reservations, and registration openings before real inventory is at risk. Practice a complete local simulation, then save the announced date, time, time zone, and page. WHY SECONDCUE ⢠Rehearse selection, order review, and a zero-charge simulated checkout ⢠Train portal, queue, seat-map, fan-presale, and show-calendar layouts ⢠Recover from synthetic verification and simulated availability conflicts ⢠Review stage times, retries, recoveries, and improvement trends ⢠See event time and local time together ⢠Count down with a network-synchronized foreground clock ⢠Check source, offset, latency, samples, and precision ⢠Open your saved HTTPS page with one tap ⢠Keep an event visible with Live Activities on supported iPhones FREE, AD-SUPPORTED PRACTICE Every layout, Pressure Mode, training insight, saved event, alert, and supported Live Activity is open without a purchase. You can hold five practice passes; one pass recharges every two hours. If you want to practice sooner, one voluntary rewarded ad adds three passes. Ads never interrupt an active rehearsal or the protected final 15 minutes before a saved event. HONEST ABOUT ACCURACY SecondCue uses multiple NTP samples and a monotonic countdown anchor. Network conditions and public services have no accuracy or availability guarantee. Website Date headers are only second-granular and may represent a CDN or cache, so they are always labeled Approximate. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account is required. Your events, URLs, settings, practice-pass balance, and practice results stay on your device. SecondCue uses Google ads after the applicable consent flow. It never logs in, clicks, joins a real queue, solves a real CAPTCHA, reserves a seat, or makes a purchase for you. SecondCue can help you arrive prepared. It cannot change inventory, queue order, website behavior, or purchase success.
ScreenSunset
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ScreenSunset is one app for the whole family's screen time. Install it on your own iPhone to run the family, and on your child's iPhone or iPad to carry out the rules you set. On first launch it asks who uses the device: - "Me, the parent": the full parent dashboard. - "My child": this device follows the rules a parent sets. - "Both": manage the family and put limits on your own phone too. FOR PARENTS: SEE THE DAY AT A GLANCE - Today's screen time for every child, against the limit you set - Top apps, websites and searches, and which devices are online - 7-day and 30-day trends, with school-hours time counted separately - Alerts for blocked sites, risky searches and devices that stop reporting - An optional AI daily summary in plain language SET THE RULES ONCE - A daily screen-time limit, with a different limit per weekday - Per-app time limits, required breaks and blocked apps - Bedtime and school-hours windows - Website filtering by category, plus always-allow and always-block lists - Ready-made templates for preschool, primary, middle and high school ACT IN THE MOMENT - Pause the internet, lock or unlock a device, or grant 15, 30 or 60 extra minutes - Approve or deny a request for more time, and read the reason your child gave - See each device's last known location, with the past 24 hours as a trail ON YOUR CHILD'S DEVICE 1. Choose "My child". The app shows a QR code; scan it from your dashboard (Add device). 2. Allow Screen Time (Apple's Family Controls) and pick the apps each rule covers. 3. From then on you change the rules from your own phone or computer, and this device applies them within seconds. When an app is paused the block screen offers "Ask for more time", and your child can add a reason. ScreenSunset itself stays open during lock and bedtime, so asking is always possible. The child cannot change the rules; sensitive actions, including the parent dashboard on a child's device, need the parent's PIN. THE WEBSITE FILTER STAYS ON THE DEVICE On a child's device ScreenSunset installs a local VPN profile. It is a DNS-only filter that runs entirely on the device: it looks at website names to decide whether a site is allowed, and never proxies, records or forwards browsing traffic through our servers. A parent-only device never asks for Screen Time or VPN access. WHAT IS COLLECTED A child's device reports coarse app-usage totals, the website domains visited and its location to the family's own ScreenSunset account, so the parents can see them. Nothing is sold or shared, there are no ads and no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Deleting your account in the app deletes your family's data. WORKS ACROSS DEVICES Sign in with email, Apple or Google. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: one child, one device, 7 days of history and every protection feature. ScreenSunset Premium (monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription) adds unlimited children and devices, 90 days of history, location and AI daily summaries. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://screensunset.com/support Privacy Policy: https://screensunset.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ScreenSunset at none against SecondCue's shown. SecondCue's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SecondCue ships an update every 2 days, ScreenSunset every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SecondCue | ScreenSunset |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days ā better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No ā better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HANSAE LEE | fly sky pty ltd |
In-app purchases
SecondCue
No in-app purchases
ScreenSunset
No in-app purchases





