Compared
Dwar and one sec
A pause before the app, or a gate until you’ve moved. Here they are side by side.
one sec puts a breath between you and a distracting app, then lets you decide. Dwar keeps the apps you pick shut, during the hours you pick, until your steps, a workout or your rings say you’ve moved. Everything in the one sec column comes from one sec’s own App Store page, read on the day shown.
| What | Dwar | one sec |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Keeping the apps you choose shut until you’ve moved | A pause before a distracting app opens: “a deep breath animation”, then the choice to go on |
| How it holds | Apple’s Screen Time shield, with Check again and Close as the only buttons | A delay rather than a block; Re-Intervention asks again after a set number of minutes |
| What opens the apps | Steps, distance, a workout, exercise minutes, active calories, stand hours, daylight, Activity rings, or a score read through the WHOOP API | Finishing the pause. Its page names no steps, workouts or rings; it can write mindful minutes to the Health app |
| Hours | Any hours you choose, per gate | Scheduled blocking and a bedtime mode |
| Commitment mode | Hard mode: longer pauses earned by moving, a day to switch off | Settings Lock, so the interventions cannot be switched off |
| Account | None | Not stated on its App Store page |
| Price | Free with one gate; Pro $0.99 a month or $5.99 a year | Pro at $6.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $99.99 once; family plans too |
| Platforms | iPhone | iPhone, iPad and Mac |
Checked against one sec’s App Store page on 2026-10-08. Tell us if it has changed.