Built for one problem.
Your iPhone.

Freedom covers everything you own. Phone, laptop, browser, all locked down together through sessions you schedule or start yourself. It's built to be comprehensive, which means it's also built around upkeep: sessions to plan, start, and remember to keep running.

Fella covers the one device that actually gets you. No sessions, no scheduling, nothing to start each morning. Pick your apps once and the block just runs, every day, with one 5-minute emergency unlock per session if you truly need in.

Freedom's sessions can typically be ended early or skipped when you decide you've had enough. Fella's unlock re-locks itself the moment the 5 minutes are up. Both sit on top of Apple's Screen Time tools on iPhone, and Fella runs $9.99 a month or $34.99 a year, with a 3-day free trial.

A normal Freedom session is easy to quit. End it early, edit the blocklist mid-session, or just not start one in the first place, and the block was never really there. Freedom knows this, which is why it built Locked Mode: turn it on, and you can't end the session early or touch the blocklist until the timer runs out.

That's a genuinely strong feature, and it's also opt-in. Locked Mode has to be switched on before each session starts, the same way Opal's Deep Focus or ClearSpace's Strict Mode require arming in advance. On a day you're already tempted, remembering to lock yourself in is exactly the step most likely to get skipped.

Fella has no unlocked state to forget to lock. There's no toggle called "Locked Mode" because the block doesn't have an unlocked mode to begin with. It's simply on, every day, and the one 5-minute emergency unlock per session is the only planned exception.

Freedom's real strength is genuinely rare: one blocklist across your phone, Mac, PC, and browser at once. If your distraction follows you from your laptop to your phone and back, that reach is not something Fella tries to compete with. Freedom also sells a one-time "Forever" plan for anyone who wants to stop the subscription clock entirely.

But more surfaces means more places for a gap to hide. A session started on your Mac doesn't automatically mean your phone is covered unless you set it up that way too. An unsynced blocklist, a device you forgot to add, or a session you only started on one of your four devices are all small, human ways the same blocklist stops being the same everywhere.

Fella only has one device to get right. There's no cross-device sync to configure and nothing to verify is running on a second screen, because there's only the one screen this was ever built for.

Nothing to schedule. No sessions to start before you're tempted, extend when you're not ready to stop, or forget to renew until the block has quietly lapsed. Fella just runs, every day, whether you remembered to think about it or not.

One unlock, not an early-end button. Fella's 5-minute unlock per session is the only exception, and there's no button waiting nearby for the moment you decide the session's gone on long enough. When the 5 minutes end, the lock comes back on its own, no matter how badly you want otherwise.

Simpler by design. No cross-device account syncing, no session management to keep straight across three different apps. Just your iPhone, blocked, and one less thing pulling at your attention before you've even opened it.

If your distraction lives on more than your phone, Freedom's ability to enforce one blocklist across iPhone, Mac, PC, and browser at once is a real, meaningful advantage Fella doesn't try to match.

Fella is for a narrower problem. If the iPhone itself is where the habit actually happens, and cross-device coverage isn't the gap you're trying to close, that's the specific case Fella is built around.