# Unscreen • Control daily usage

> Limit screen time, app blocker

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1642460506](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1642460506)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1642460506`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Denk Alexandru
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (84 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.2.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-19
- **First published:** 2022-09-27
- **Size:** 19 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unscreen-control-daily-usage/id1642460506)
- **Website:** [https://alexdenk.eu](https://alexdenk.eu/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://alexdenk.eu/privacy-ios-apps.html](https://alexdenk.eu/privacy-ios-apps.html)

## Description

Unscreen helps individuals and families curb screen addiction by locking addictive apps and websites, scheduling sessions, and protecting settings with a password or biometric sign-in. Create multiple profiles, run recurring sessions or quick timers for school, work, or personal time.

Practical use cases include blocking social apps during class hours, starting a focused session for meetings, or restricting notifications and adult sites across browsers. Benefits include improved focus and productivity, better sleep, reduced stress, and healthier digital habits.

## Rankings

- #149,403 — Overall
- #9 — website usage
- #33 — usage
- #54 — usage tracker

## Review summary

Users largely praise the core feature to lock/hide apps, seeing it as a useful tool to curb phone usage, especially after upgrading. However, there are frequent concerns about pricing and licensing, with lifetime purchases not honored and new charges introduced. Reliability is another big issue: scheduling and session triggering are buggy, occasionally causing sessions to fail or not start as planned. Some users feel updates reduced functionality and pushed more features behind payments. Overall, the app shows potential for reducing distraction but payment practices and stability are significant drawbacks.

### Pros

- Core feature to lock/hide apps to reduce distractions.
- Useful after upgrading to the full version/premium.
- Blocking/hiding apps aligns with users' needs.

### Cons

- Pricing/licensing issues: lifetime purchases not honored and new charges introduced, reducing perceived value.
- Reliability and scheduling bugs: sessions often fail to start or run as scheduled, making the tool unreliable.
- Perceived post-update feature reductions and increased gating behind payments, diminishing functionality.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1642460506)