# Google Play ratings of every major screen time app

We pull each app's public Google Play rating and re-check it every month, so this is one number you can trust more than a single review: the crowd's, dated.

*Source: https://phonestop.app/screen-time-app-ratings · Last checked September 2026 · PhoneStop — A daily screen time budget that stops you. A free Android app, on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.phonestop.*

There is no single place that lists what people actually rate these apps, so we made one
and keep it current. Each figure is the app's own Google Play rating and rating count, read straight from
its public listing.

| App | Rating | Ratings count | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brick | 4.9 | 4.15K | Google Play |
| BePresent | 4.8 | 9.2K | Google Play |
| one sec | 4.7 | 45.9K | Google Play |
| ScreenZen | 4.7 | 32.2K | Google Play |
| AppBlock | 4.7 | 240K | Google Play |
| StayFree | 4.6 | 277K | Google Play |
| minimalist phone | 4.6 | 50.7K | Google Play |
| Opal | 4.5 | 8.77K | Google Play |
| Freedom | 4.5 | 8.1K | Google Play |
| Unpluq | 4.4 | 1.55K | Google Play |
| Forest | 4.3 | 813K | Google Play |
| Digital Wellbeing | 3.6 | 1.47M | Google Play |
| Cold Turkey Blocker | — | — | Desktop only (Windows, Mac); no Google Play app |
| Apple Screen Time | — | — | Built into iOS; not on Google Play |
| Jomo | — | — | iPhone and iPad only; not on Google Play |
| Foqos | — | — | iPhone only; not on Google Play |
| Locked (NowLocked) | — | — | iPhone only; not on Google Play |

*Verified September 2026.*

## How to read this

A high rating with a handful of ratings is not the same as a slightly lower rating across hundreds of
thousands. Digital Wellbeing sits low partly because it ships on every Android phone and is rated by
people who never chose it; a paid niche app is rated mostly by people who did. Ratings measure
satisfaction among the people who installed, not how much an app actually lowers your screen time, which
no store rating can see.

Three apps have no row because they have no Google Play listing: Cold Turkey is desktop software, Apple
Screen Time is built into iOS, and Jomo is iPhone-only.

## What a rating cannot tell you

Every app in this table works the same way underneath: you pick apps to block or limit, and the phone
stays open for everything you did not pick. That is why [blocking one app rarely lowers your total
screen time](https://phonestop.app/why-blocking-apps-does-not-work) however well it is rated. [PhoneStop](https://phonestop.app/) budgets the whole
phone instead, which is a different measurement, not a higher rating.

*Disclosure: we make PhoneStop. Prices and platforms were checked in September 2026 and change often, so check the vendor before you pay.*

**PhoneStop** is a free Android app: set a daily screen time budget, get warned before it runs out, get stopped when it does. An iPhone version is coming soon. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.phonestop · https://phonestop.app/

## Keep reading

- [All the comparisons](https://phonestop.app/compare)
- [Best-of guides](https://phonestop.app/best)