Unglue blocks distracting apps, lets you set goals, and hands back screen time when you complete healthy habits or tasks you needed to do anyway. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what Unglue does better.
| Unglue | Paused | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | Unglue blocks distracting apps, lets you set goals, and hands back screen time when you complete healthy habits or tasks you needed to do anyway. | 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 | Task-linked unlocks. Unglue ties the reward to real to-dos, so the chores get done before the scrolling starts. | Paused is not tied to your to-do list — the block is on during your schedule, full stop. |
| Day to day it feels like | Distracting apps stay locked until you have done something else first — exercise, steps, a habit, a task, reading — and you spend what you earned in minutes. | 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. |
…earning screen time from your task list is the motivation you need.
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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