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App blocker

  1. Market

    Installs
    36.8M

    Across 9 of 16 apps we could match.

    • BlockSite: 12,597,635 installs
    • AppBlock: 10,772,143 installs
    • BlockerX: 7,127,229 installs
    • Freedom: 2,002,724 installs
    • one sec | screen time + focus: 1,960,644 installs
    • ScreenZen- Screen Time Control: 1,225,226 installs
    • Opal: 832,097 installs
    • BePresent: 151,549 installs
    • Brick: 139,112 installs
    • 34% leader share. BlockSite, by Google Play installs, across the 9 of 16 apps we could match
    • #37 Productivity rank. BePresent, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $4.99 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 13 apps that list one. 13 of 15 charge.
    • 15 of 16 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Opal26 Sep89k ratings$99.99 a year
    2. BePresent2 Oct66k ratings$24.99 to $59.99 a year
    3. Brick2 Oct56k ratings
    4. ScreenZen- Screen Time Control6 Sep51k ratings$5.00 to $40.00
    5. App Lock25 Sep25k ratings$19.99 to $39.99 a year
    6. one sec | screen time + focus29 Sep24k ratings$19.99 to $29.99 a year
    7. PushUp Time30 Sep12k ratings$14.99 to $59.99 a year
    8. Refocus16 Sep12k ratings$7.99 to $59.99
    9. BlockerX11 Sep8k ratings
    10. App Lock1 Jun8k ratings$9.99 to $23.99 a year
    11. AppBlock2 Oct7k ratings$29.99 to $59.99 a year
    12. BlockSite6 Sep6k ratings$17.99 to $59.99 a year
    13. Freedom22 Sep6k ratings$39.99 to $59.99 a year
    14. Focus Plant：forest app blocker21 Sep5k ratings$0.99 to $39.99
    15. DetoxLock14 Sep493 ratings$13.99 to $39.99 a year
    16. OpenAppLock13 Sep7 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 7,001 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Limits & caps+0.8%16 of 16 apps
    2. UX+0.2%13 of 16 apps
    3. Content−0.3%10 of 16 apps
    4. Sync & data−1.1%10 of 16 apps
    5. Wishlist−1.5%15 of 16 apps
    6. Ads−1.7%16 of 16 apps
    7. Login & auth−2.1%15 of 16 apps
    8. Support−2.3%12 of 16 apps
    9. Performance−2.4%15 of 16 apps
    10. Billing−3.8%15 of 16 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
    With
    Without

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 10 September 2026.

  6. Your test

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    What to call it. Where to launch. What a user costs.

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    • Where to launch
    • What a user costs
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Is there a market for a new app blocker?

16 apps compete here. They hold 36,808,359 installs on Google Play, counted across the 9 we could match. We hold 7,001 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do app blockers charge?

13 of the 15 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $4.99 or less. 1 more app has no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want an app blocker?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing app blocker completes to “finite: app blocker” in 40 of them. Then “breathgate: app blocker” in 39, “the experiment: app blocker” in 34. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in app blockers?

1. Limits & caps: in 16 of 16 apps, 3.4% of reviews (2.6% in Productivity apps). Counted from 7,001 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures for Productivity apps

  • the monthly-first category

    77% of subscriptions sold are monthly · 91% of revenue from monthly (different denominators, both true)

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 779 Productivity apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap.