Screen Time vs app blocker
App Limits, Downtime, Focus and a selected-app blocker are often confused. The right choice depends on whether you need a budget, a schedule, fewer alerts, or to make selected apps unavailable by default.
Use Screen Time for reports, App Limits and Downtime; Focus for notifications and Home Screen; a selected-app blocker when a few apps need to be blocked by default while the rest of your phone stays useful.
Use the screen time calculatorApp Limits set a daily allowance, Downtime sets a schedule, and Screen Time shows where time goes. Great for awareness, budgets and predictable windows.
For random, automatic opens of the same 1–2 apps, a time budget may be easy to extend — a default block is more direct.
A blocker asks: which installed apps create the problem, and can the rest stay useful? Fella keeps the apps you select blocked by default; unselected apps stay available.
It is not a website blocker or MDM system. It is a narrow boundary for the habit you named in how to reduce or your detox plan.
A practical next step
Alerts, daily total, schedule or repeated automatic opens?
Focus, App Limits/Downtime or a blocker.
Leave useful apps available.
It has App Limits and Downtime. Use them for budgets/schedules; a blocker is for default-unavailable selected apps.
Focus quiets notifications and can hide pages, but generally does not block opening an app.
Yes. With a selected-app approach, only the apps you select are blocked.
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Klippy stays free and private. If you decide you need a stronger boundary for a few apps, Fella blocks selected iPhone apps while leaving the rest of your phone usable.