Refocus: Block Apps & Websites

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Didn’t do anything. This app doesn’t help and charges you 40 dollars after having it for a week with no notice. Terrible experience

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   I hate this app. Ok so i wanted to get this app because idk but then i can’t remember the password so if you can help pls halp me find that password

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Obnoxious. Costs money buy tries to hide it. They should just be upfront. Waste of time.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t work unless your phone has a passcode. I hate putting in a passcode or facial ID so I don’t have them. App, for whatever reason, can’t work unless you have them enabled. Stupid requirements.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Persistent review requests. Honestly I just get super annoyed with how often this app asks you to review it. If you ignore the request, it continues to prompt you almost daily—so then you finally submit one, and then you get maybe two weeks before it starts prompting you for a review again. If I submit a review, it should be over with, no more requests or prompts.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Not helpful. for an app that constantly begs users for reviews, it’s a pretty terrible app. If you use free you’re basically not accomplishing anything. You’re only allowed TWO block sessions ever and you can unblock them so easily it doesn’t te en make sense to have the app anymore. Deleting in favor of Opal

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Apple 26.4 update destroyed this. The new update makes it beyond easy to bypass any screentime restrictions.. all these productivity blocker software is now obsolete

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Worst app. It’s wonderful when you want to block apps. But the moment you want to actually delete refocus it becomes a nightmare, im literally up at 1 in the morning trying to fix my phone because of how it’s acting. Don’t download this dumb app

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Giving up. The set up is so intensely NOT antagonistic to users, that I can’t imagine the actual usage is great. “Select which apps/websites within each category you want to block!” Cool, but why did you (1) make the categories selectable, and not visibly different from the items within that category, and then (2) make it so it dumps all previous selections every time a category is selected by mistake? Along with a big notification to “NOT SELECT A CATEGORY!”? Just awful, awful design.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bad. Sucks

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Dangerous, brick maker. This app is not compatible with most recent Apple updates. Bricks most reading apps, magazines, Kindle, Libby, Atlantic, etc, etc. Dangerous and hella frustrating

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Hard to delete. It’s probably a good app, but it makes you go though a whole process of setting it up before you telling how much it costs. Then it makes it extremely hard to delete off your phone. It firsts makes you sign-up/ enter you card information before you can go into the app to delete it, and from there it’s a whole navigation of inconvenience to delete.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    7 day trial only. Please always note down it is an only 7 day trial option as I didn’t know until I completed the whole profile process to only find out the app cannot be used after the 7 days since you’ll be charged around 40 something.

14. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    broken. it keeps blocking even when it’s not supposed to.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can no longer use the app. I used to use this app to put screen times on different apps. Now everything is blocked and you have to pay money. It has become a useless app.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Blocking apps not on my list. My whole phone is blocked right now and I only blocked social media

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Most sus app of all time. Prompts for payment but you don’t rlly need to give it. Warming/ things you have to do before deleting in case it stays that way cuz the app is glitchy as hell

18. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Worst experience ever. DO NOT INSTALL.. This app completely ruined my phone experience. I enabled the blocking feature for a few apps, and even after turning everything off, the apps stayed permanently restricted. I deleted the app, turned off Screen Time, restarted my phone, reset all settings — nothing worked. The restrictions stayed on my device even after uninstalling because the app was running in “guest mode” and never warned me that these changes would remain. In the end, I had to factory reset my entire iPhone just to remove the mess this app created. This app applies system-level restrictions without clearly explaining the consequences. Save yourself the stress and frustration — do NOT install this app.

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Pointless. It’s way too easy to go around the block. It worked for about a week but then I realized you can just refresh the blocks and get unlimited unblocks. It’s so dumb. I need something that will TRUELY lock me out. Don’t make it so easy to bypass. Apple has the same feature for free why should I continue paying for this when it’s just as easy to go around. Frustrating.

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    asking for $49.99 after paying for 1 month. I just paid for this app and tried to use it and it won’t let me go past the sign up for one year for $49.99. I signed up for one month to see if I liked the app before committing to one year. Geesh how do I get my money back if they won’t let me use the app?

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Refocus. They didn’t put in enough blocking measures very easy to unblock 😔

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bad. Does not work well at all I think it’s horrible

23. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    DO NOT USE!!!. The app malfunctioned and I was completely unable to unblock anything, and deleting the app risked bricking my phone indefinitely. NOT WORTH THE RISK. Had to do several workarounds to safely delete the app without permanently blocking selected apps, huge hassle. Will NOT be redownloading.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App crashed. All my apps were locked as usual, and I went to sleep and all my apps were still locked and I could not open the app to unlock them.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Unless if your not spending money. Unless you pay money you can easily just go into the app and add down time, absolutely nothing stopping you. I mean it kinda works but there are a lot more better apps out there

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Super good. This app is really helpful, and has helped me quite a lot cutting down my screen time totally recommend

27. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Let you delete the app so you don’t have to pay. The app is really great for stuff but it won’t let me delete the app

28. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Keeps asking me to review even after I cancel. That’s why it gets 3 stars

29. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    5/5 stars. It’s pretty good, no complaints

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Review. Only thing that I don’t like is that the restrictive options cost money. Let’s be real, people get this to stop gooning, the lower level things help but for high level gooners, not so much. But other wise pretty good app.