ScrollOut vs Hitokokyu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScrollOut
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You open a social app for a second and lose two hours to the feed. ScrollOut trades that time for something else: walking to a real place. The apps you choose stay locked. Every time you walk to a park, a café or a viewpoint nearby, you earn minutes to use them. Your screen time is outside. WHO IT IS FOR • You lose hours to feeds and videos without noticing • You want less phone time, but you always switch the blocker off • You want a reason to get outside and move • There are places near you that you have never visited HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps to lock (this uses Apple's Screen Time framework) 2. Pick where to go on the map. Take today's suggestions, filter by mood or walking time, or tap any place you can see on the map 3. Walk there and check in when you arrive. The distance you walked becomes minutes you can spend The minutes are fixed the moment a quest starts. A detour or a run will not change them. FEATURES • Destinations nearby — parks, cafés, viewpoints and more, suggested fresh every day within walking distance • Everything on the map — the route, the distance left and the minutes you will earn. Turn-by-turn navigation hands off to Apple Maps or Google Maps • World — your total distance walked, retold as 20 real routes: bridges, parks and pilgrim paths around the world • Progress — level, streak and totals by period • Only two kinds of notification — when your remaining time first drops below five minutes, and before a free trial ends • 10 languages — Japanese, English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese PRIVACY No account required. Your location, your quest history and your app usage stay on the device. They are never sent to our servers. SUBSCRIPTION Starting quests and earning screen time require an auto-renewing subscription. The map, spot details and history stay open without one. • Weekly plan • Annual plan (3-day free trial for new subscribers) The price for your country or region is shown before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A plan with a free trial becomes a paid subscription automatically when the trial ends. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for the next period within the 24 hours before the current one ends. You can cancel in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://favoriteapp.tech/scrollout/terms Privacy Policy: https://favoriteapp.tech/scrollout/privacy
Hitokokyu
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No Screen Time permission needed. Hitokokyu puts a short pause between you and the apps you open without thinking. The moment you go to open Instagram or X, it asks you to take one breath first. Stopping the "I opened it before I knew it" habit doesn't take a hard block. It takes a few seconds of space. ■ As many apps as you want ・No limit on the number of target apps ・Social, video, news, and games — cover them all ・No "one app only" restriction ■ No Screen Time access ・Most app limiters ask for iOS Screen Time permission ・Hitokokyu runs on Shortcuts automations, so it never asks for it ・The app never learns what you use or for how long ■ Watch the times you turned back add up ・It counts every time you went to open an app and stopped ・The focus is on turning back, not on minutes saved ・See what time of day you reach for your phone on autopilot ・A weekly recap every Monday, which you can share as an image ■ A pause that doesn't wear off ・The more you choose "Open Anyway" in a day, the longer the pause gets ・Set a daily limit per app; past it, you type a phrase instead ・A different short prompt every time, or write your own ・Write down why you want to cut back, and see it when you pause ■ Use it without opening it ・Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for today's turn-backs, rate, and streak ・Start a Focus Session from a widget or Control Center — you'll pause every time until it ends ・Turn on a Focus filter to pause every time during Work or any other Focus ・Grace periods and Focus Sessions count down on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island ■ Private by design ・Everything stays on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere ・No account, no ads, no data collection ■ One thing to know before you start ・You create one automation per target app in the Shortcuts app ・Hitokokyu walks you through it, step by step (about 30 seconds per app) ・That small setup is why you never have to hand over Screen Time access Before you open it, take one breath.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hitokokyu at none against ScrollOut's 3. ScrollOut's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ads, 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. ScrollOut sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Hitokokyu asks for nothing beyond the download.
ScrollOut ships an update every 3 days, Hitokokyu weekly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | ScrollOut | Hitokokyu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shinya Kinjo | HIROMU MORISAKI |
In-app purchases
ScrollOut
- Weekly$5.997 Days
- Annual (Special Offer)3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
Hitokokyu
No in-app purchases









