Looking for a No Scroll alternative?

No Scroll asks you to choose a time limit before you open TikTok, Instagram or any app, then locks the app for five minutes when time is up. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what No Scroll does better.

No Scroll vs Paused, side by side

	No Scroll	Paused
Known for	No Scroll asks you to choose a time limit before you open TikTok, Instagram or any app, then locks the app for five minutes when time is up.	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	The pre-commitment moment. No Scroll makes you decide how long before every open, which is a different lever from a schedule.	Paused removes the decision entirely during the hours you chose — the app simply is not there — and keeps a streak for the days that held.
Day to day it feels like	The apps still open, but not instantly: a pause, a breath, a question or a reason first. It lowers the number of impulse opens rather than switching anything off.	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.

Stay with No Scroll if…

…you want to keep opening the apps and just cap each visit. Paused is about when, not how long.

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.

What Paused does not do

Said up front, because this is the part comparison pages usually leave out.

iPhone and iPad only — no Android, Mac or browser extension.
No daily usage allowance right now: Paused blocks by schedule or by session, not by “30 minutes a day” (Daily Limits are on hold because of an iOS 18 Screen Time bug that affects every app in this list).
Nothing to earn, grow or scan — if that mechanic is what keeps you honest, several apps above do it better.
Self-control for your own phone, not a tool for managing someone else’s.

What you get if you do switch

Block Schedules. Pick the apps, pick the days and hours — 10pm–7am, 9–5, dinner — and they switch off and back on by themselves. Set once.
Focus sessions. One tap blocks your chosen apps for 25 minutes, two hours, or until dinner is over.
A streak. Every day the block holds, the count goes up. That is the whole reward system.
A calm block screen. Open a blocked app and you get a quiet Paused screen, not the feed.
Privacy by construction. Paused blocks through Apple's Screen Time framework, which enforces the block without the app reading your messages, browsing or anything inside the apps. Usage stays on your phone.