Company Name: Smolworks Inc
About: Reclaim your day with Brainrot, a playful screen time control, app blocker, and
focus coach. Pick the apps and sites to block, set schedules, and watch your
cute brain avatar decay as you doom scroll.
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by Dr.A1313
I downloaded the app to help with my screen time. I was surprised and a bit annoyed when a subscription was needed. I wasn’t going to pay but when exiting out there was a 50% off the annual plan. 1) that feels scammy. Just offer the $25/year subscription straight away instead of baiting people in with the higher rate. 2) $5/week is insane! For a screen time app that is available default on iPhone? Either way I decided to try since my screen time is out of control. The interface is a bit clunky and there’s a lot of tabs at the bottom that can be confusing to navigate. The default start is to brick your phone. I don’t find this helpful or useful. I think it’s an exaggeration to expect people to brick their phone. I tried to set up some automations for when to limit my screen time. None of them would stay. I had multiple instances of automations I set up disappearing or reverting back to the default. Super annoying! I decided to add the widget to my Home Screen but it would never update. It would always stay at 99 even if it was something much lower. I tried restarting the app but that didn’t help. There were multiple times where the app would say it could not connect to the apps and I needed to refresh things. I really was hoping this could be useful. But with the scammy feeling with the discount, the automations not working or resetting, the broken widget, and the clunky interface, it’s not good.
by Juan E.C
The app idea is genuinely compelling, and I really wanted it to work. Unfortunately, the ongoing bugs with Screen Time make it completely unusable. Apps get blocked at the start of the day, the usage tracking is consistently inaccurate, and as a result I can’t rely on the app at all.
It’s frustrating because the whole purpose is to reduce phone use, yet I’ve ended up spending far more time trying to troubleshoot the issues or figure out how to request a refund. At this point, I feel I’ve received no value from the purchase and wish I could get my money back.
by 19mason96
The concept of this app is fantastic, but the app itself is barebones, full of bugs, and has no right to cost money at this unfinished stage. It is not integrating well with iOS so the widget doesn’t work, minor issue. I scheduled my blocked app times and it makes you go through several steps to access them (as it should). Tried to access Instagram to look at a business’s page, but when you follow those steps, Brainrot doesn’t actually give you access. At this unfinished stage, even the discounted $25/year is an absolute scam.