RetroFold vs Dotwave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
RetroFold
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Pause social. Keep calls, texts and a bedside alarm. Need to stay reachable without getting pulled into a feed? RetroFold combines selected-app blocking with a retro phone keypad, clock and local alarm. Use your phone for what you need, then put it down. CHOOSE WHAT TO BLOCK Allow Apple Screen Time access, choose distracting social apps or websites, select a duration and start. Keep Phone and Messages out of your selection if you want to use them. Pick 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or a custom duration. These are times for the same blocking feature, not separate modes. Shields lift at expiry, and you can end early. KEEP IMPORTANT PEOPLE CLOSE Use the retro keypad, system contact picker and Apple's message composer. To receive alerts only from chosen people, configure allowed people and callers separately in iPhone Focus. RetroFold does not read communications, judge their importance or switch iPhone Focus on or off. A BEDSIDE CLOCK, NOT ANOTHER FEED See a large clock and date. Schedule a local alarm with optional daily repeat. The alarm requires notification permission and follows Silent, Focus and other device settings; it does not behave identically to the built-in Clock alarm. A LITTLE RETRO CHARACTER Choose pink or white LCD styling, tap the keypad with sound and haptics, and keep a private note. A completed focus session earns an in-app letter card you can save or share. Letters are a bonus for any completed duration, not a 15-minute-only feature. No actual SMS is sent as a reward. YOUR PHONE, YOUR CHOICE Screen Time permission is required for app blocking. RetroFold does not replace iOS, the Home Screen, Phone, Messages or incoming-call screens. Phone and message actions finish in Apple system interfaces. iPhone Focus notification filtering must be turned off separately. No account, ads, analytics SDK, subscription or in-app purchase. App settings, notes and session records stay on your device. Sharing is optional and uses the destination you select. App interface languages: English and Korean.
Dotwave
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์คํธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์๋ ์๋, ๋ด ๋์งํธ ์จ๋ฒ ์ปฌ๋ ์ [์จ๋ฒ ํ๋ ์ด์ด] - ํ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์จ๋ฒ์ ๊ณก์ ์๋์ผ๋ก ํ ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌถ์ด์ - ์ปดํ๋ ์ด์ ยทOST๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ํฐ์คํธ๊ฐ ์ค๋ ค๋ ํ ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ํด์ - ์จ๋ฒ์ ์ด๋๊น์ง ๋ค์๋์ง ๊ธฐ์ตํ๊ณ , ๋ค์์ ์ด์ด์ ๋ค๋ ค์ค์ - ๋ง์์ ๋๋ ์จ๋ฒ๊ณผ ๊ณก์ ํํธ๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒจ ๋์ธ์ [๋๊น ์๋ ์ฌ์] - ๊ณก ์ฌ์ด์ ํ์ด ์๋ ๊ฐญ๋ฆฌ์ค ์ฌ์(์จ๋ฒ ์ด์ด๋ฃ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์) - ์ ํยท์ ์ฒด ๋ฐ๋ณตยทํ ๊ณก ๋ฐ๋ณต - ์ด์ /๋ค์ ๋ฒํผ์ ๊ธธ๊ฒ ๋๋ฅด๋ฉด 2๋ฐฐ์์ 5๋ฐฐ๊น์ง ์ ์ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง๋ ํ์ - ํ๋ฉด์ ๊บผ๋, ์ ๊ธํ๋ฉดยท์ ์ด์ผํฐยท์ด์ดํฐ ๋ฒํผ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์กฐ์ [๋ฃ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ํ์] - ํ์ผ์ ์ํ๋ ์ดํธ์ ์ค์ ์ถ๋ ฅ ์ํ๋ ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ํ ํ์ - ์ด์ดํฐยท๋ธ๋ฃจํฌ์คยทDAC ๋ฑ iPhone์ด ์ฝ๋ ์ถ๋ ฅ ์ฅ์น ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ํ์ - 5๋ฐด๋ ์ดํ๋ผ์ด์ ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ , ๋ถ์คํธ์ ๋ง์ถ ์๋ ํค๋๋ฃธ [์ง์ ์ธ์ด] - ํ๊ตญ์ดยทEnglishยทๆฅๆฌ่ช
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RetroFold at daily against Dotwave's every 2 days. RetroFold also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RetroFold ships an update daily, Dotwave every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetroFold | Dotwave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily โ better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeongyun Hur | HYEONSEONG HWANG |
In-app purchases
RetroFold
No in-app purchases
Dotwave
No in-app purchases









