How Stint compares
Stint is for people who want to focus with a group: everyone pays the same entry fee into a prize pool, their phones verify the work, and everyone who qualifies splits it. If you'd rather block apps on your own, work beside a partner on video, or put money behind a goal that isn't screen work, one of these apps may suit you better, and each page says so.
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The comparisons
- Stint vsOpalFor strong, scheduled app blocking on iPhone, Android and Mac, on your own.Read the comparison
- Stint vsBrickFor a physical key you leave across the room, bought once, no subscription.Read the comparison
- Stint vsstickK, Beeminder and ForfeitFor putting money behind any goal, alone, where you pay only if you miss.Read the comparison
- Stint vsFocusmateFor working alongside a live partner on video, in any browser.Read the comparison
- Stint vsForestFor free, gentle focus sessions with a tree to grow and no money involved.Read the comparison
- StintFor groups who want focus their phones verify, only the apps they choose blocked, and a prize pool for everyone who finishes.
How we compare
Every fact about another app comes from that app's own website or App Store page, checked on the date shown. If we couldn't confirm something, it isn't on the page. We don't rank apps, and each page says where the other app is the better pick.
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How Stint works
A group, a daily focus goal and a prize pool. Your phone keeps score.
- Step 1
Join a pool
Every member pays the same entry fee into the prize pool. The goal, length and any platform cut are shown first.
- Step 2
Focus
Time counts only in your work apps. The apps you chose to block stay blocked during a session.
- Step 3
Your phone verifies it
Your phone reports each minute of a session to Stint. No self-reporting.
- Step 4
Qualify and split
Meet the goal on the days the rules require. Everyone who qualifies splits the prize pool equally.
The full rules are on how Stint works, and the arithmetic of the split, with a worked example, is on how prize pools work.
Still deciding?
Stint is free to download, so you can look around before you join a pool.
Try a pool
You pay a pool's entry fee only when you join one. Stint Pro is optional, US$5.99 a month.
