Aliver blocks distracting apps at specific times or once you reach a daily limit, and pairs that with screen-time tracking and daily-routine features. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what Aliver does better.
| Aliver | Paused | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | Aliver blocks distracting apps at specific times or once you reach a daily limit, and pairs that with screen-time tracking and daily-routine features. | Block Schedules that switch your chosen apps off at set times and back on afterwards, one-tap Focus sessions for right now, and a streak that counts the days you kept the block. |
| Genuinely better at | Daily allowances. Aliver can block an app after you have used it for your chosen amount that day, alongside time-of-day blocks. | Paused blocks by schedule and by session — the wall is about when, not how much — and adds a streak to keep you at it. |
| Day to day it feels like | You pick apps and rules — times, sessions, sometimes a daily allowance — and the app shields them. The differences are in how strict the rules can be made and how hard they are to undo. | A small, boring wall. You pick the apps, pick the hours, and they stop opening — no coins, no plants, no hardware, no reasons to type. A calm Paused screen where the app used to be. |
…a per-day allowance is the mechanic you want. Paused’s Daily Limits are on hold on iOS 18.
We would rather you kept an app that fits than switched and quietly turned it off after a fortnight. A blocker you have disabled is not a blocker.
Said up front, because this is the part comparison pages usually leave out.
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