Comparison

Pull to Refresh vs Tandivo

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

Head to head
About

Pull to Refresh

This app locks your most time-consuming applications until you complete physical exercises. Earn back minutes for your apps by doing push-ups, sit-ups, or other movements, with the camera accurately counting your reps. Your exercise data can be saved to Health.

Highlights
  • App time allowance setting
  • Exercise-based rep counting
  • Pose detection for accurate reps
  • Health app integration
  • Optional public leaderboard
  • Strict mode for enhanced blocking
Features
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Pull to refresh. Actually pull. Pick the apps that eat your day, give them an allowance, and when it runs out they lock. To get back in, you do reps. The camera counts them on your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps. Instagram, TikTok, X, games — whatever you actually lose hours to. 2. Set the allowance. So many minutes a day, a few minutes an hour, or nothing at all. 3. Run out, and they shut. 4. Do a set. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups or jumping jacks. 5. Spend what you earned, on whichever app you were reaching for. THE COUNTING IS HONEST Reps are scored from your body's joint positions, not from your phone shaking in a pocket. A rep only counts on a full movement — down to depth and back — so half-reps score nothing, and the app tells you why instead of leaving you guessing. Shaking the phone pays exactly zero. Time is measured in real use of those apps, not on a clock. Put the phone down mid-scroll and the minutes you paid for wait for you — for at least half an hour, and four times as long as the unlock for bigger ones, up to 22 hours. NO VIDEO LEAVES YOUR PHONE Pose detection runs on the device. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no account to make. iOS hands the app opaque tokens rather than names, so it can tell that you picked an app — never what you do inside it. What does leave goes through Apple: rep counts and badge progress to Game Center once you say yes, your name and numbers to the iCloud board if you join it, and a copy of your history to your own iCloud. IT COUNTS TWICE Finished sets can be saved to Health as workouts, so reps done here go to your Move ring and show up in Fitness with everything else. RACE SOMEONE Signed in to Game Center, you get its leaderboards — this week and all time — and nine badges to earn, under your Game Center name. Nothing is sent until you say yes. On iOS 26 and later, start a Rep Race with a friend from Game Center: the biggest single set done during the race wins. Not on Game Center? Join the iCloud board under any name you like; leaving deletes your row. PRO Free covers a whole working loop: one group of apps on a daily allowance, every exercise, rep counting, Health and the leaderboards. Forever. Pro makes the lock harder — it never makes it softer: - Strict mode. A rule you cannot switch off the moment you want to. Changing it costs a cooling-off period first, which is exactly when you would have caved. - Minutes per hour. Short check-ins instead of one long sitting. - As many rules as you like, with different limits for different apps. - Your whole history, with streaks. Money never buys screen time here; reps do. Pro is a subscription, renewing until cancelled, or a one-off payment for good. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. WORTH KNOWING Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. You will be asked to grant it on first launch, and the camera when you do your first set. Deleting the app removes every lock, whatever you have bought — this is a speed bump you chose, not a cage. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/privacy

About

Tandivo

Features
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Turn conversations into notes you can return to. Tandivo brings recordings, transcripts and AI summaries together for meetings, lectures and interviews. Record on iPhone or Apple Watch, mark important moments and review time-stamped transcripts. Find decisions and next steps in summaries, ask questions about a meeting and create study material from your transcript. Add documents, adjust playback speed and export a branded PDF with or without the transcript. Transcription and AI processing run on your device. Apple model availability depends on your device, system and language; compatible downloadable local models offer another option. Model downloads require internet and storage. AI can make mistakes: review important details. Long AI tasks may require keeping the app open. Free use has limits and may show ads. Optional monthly or annual Tandivo Pro subscriptions provide additional features and remove ads. Prices and terms are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in App Store settings. https://mehmetefeaytas.github.io/tandivo-support/#privacy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pull to Refresh4 screens
Tandivo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pull to Refresh at none against Tandivo's shown. Pull to Refresh also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). Tandivo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pull to Refresh sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Tandivo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pull to Refresh ships an update every 4 days, Tandivo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pull to Refresh versus Tandivo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPull to RefreshTandivo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan ChernoknizhnikovMehmet Efe Aytas

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pull to Refresh

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Yearly$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Forever$49.99
2 purchases

Tandivo

Subscriptions2
  • Tandivo Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Tandivo Pro Yearly$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Pull to Refresh free?
Pull to Refresh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tandivo free?
Tandivo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pull to Refresh or Tandivo have ads?
Tandivo shows ads; Pull to Refresh does not.
Which is updated more often, Pull to Refresh or Tandivo?
Pull to Refresh ships an update every 4 days, and Tandivo every 2 days. Most recently, Pull to Refresh was updated on October 29, 2026 and Tandivo on October 24, 2026.

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