“Makes me pay — Why do I have to pay for this I won’t let me use the app to lower my screen time like I want to be getting told to pay to do it it’s stupid I looked through and didn’t see a single go for free”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 523 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★56,848 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
194 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Your scrolling has a battery now. Scroll less without giving up the apps you enjoy. Unrot is a screen time app blocker with one shared battery for the apps you choose. Using those apps drains it. When the battery is empty, they lock. Time away from those apps recharges it.
HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your apps. Put the apps you want to use less on one shared battery. 2. Scroll. It drains. Your available time goes down as you use your selected apps. 3. Empty? Those apps lock. Your scrolling gets a stopping point. 4. Step away. It recharges. Spend time outside your selected apps to restore charge. Come back before it is full and use the time that has recharged. YOUR GOAL: HALF AS MUCH SCROLLING Start near your current use, then choose when to reduce your allowance. Work toward half as much time on your selected apps, one smaller battery at a time.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.0.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.0.3, updated 2026-10-03.
What we measured
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Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.5% of 523 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Good in theroy — I would love this but it is locked behind a paywall and in general there should be a free version so I don’t have to pay to disconnect”
“Locked behind paywall — Hi. I downloaded this app to control my screentime, so I gave it access to block my most used apps. Little did I know you have to pay for it, and they had already locked my apps. I couldn't delete it because of the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.0.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.