Focus Lock (“Limit Screen Time”) blocks social media, games and websites by schedule or by location, with focus sessions, background music and detailed usage statistics. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what Focus Lock does better.
| Focus Lock | Paused | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | Focus Lock (“Limit Screen Time”) blocks social media, games and websites by schedule or by location, with focus sessions, background music and detailed usage statistics. | 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 | Location rules. Focus Lock can apply a block when you arrive somewhere — office, school, home — and it blocks websites as well as apps. | Paused keeps the rule to time and tap: a Block Schedule for the hours you choose, a Focus session for right now. |
| 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. |
…you want blocks that follow your location or reach websites. Paused blocks apps by time.
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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