SweatLock
Waitlist — not shipped

Screen time is no longer free.

You get a small daily allowance on the apps you pick. It shrinks every week. Everything past it, you buy — with your body.

The rate
Minutes, per unit paid
Push-upsCounted on-device by the camera
10 min / 30
SquatsCounted on-device by the camera
10 min / 50
StepsOnly the ones above your own baseline
10 min / 2,000
Rates are provisional and will move during testing. Reps are counted on your phone — no video leaves the device, and none is stored.
01 — LOCK

Pick the leech

Choose the apps eating your day. They close at the operating-system level when the allowance runs out. No "remind me in 15 minutes" button.

02 — PAY

Buy the overtime

Past the allowance, minutes cost something. Push-ups and squats counted by the camera, or steps logged through Apple Health. Output buys access.

03 — TAPER

The allowance shrinks

Each week the free portion steps down toward a floor you set on day one. The same habit costs more over time, on a schedule you agreed to while motivated.

On steps

You don't get paid for walking to the fridge

A sedentary adult already walks somewhere between four and seven thousand steps a day without trying. If those counted, you'd unlock most of a scrolling habit by doing precisely nothing — which would make this whole app a decoration.

So they don't count. We read your last fourteen days from Apple Health, set that as your baseline, and only pay out on steps above it. Walk what you always walk and you earn nothing. Walk further than yesterday's version of you and the minutes start.

Your baseline recalculates as you get fitter. Get in better shape and the price goes up, not down.

Example — 6,000 step baseline
Baseline — earns nothing6,000
What you actually walked9,000
Counted: 3,000 steps. Earned: 15 minutes.
The first 6,000 were always going to happen.
Your price

Name what it costs to walk away

A blocker only works while quitting is inconvenient. That's the thing you're actually buying — not a feature list. Pick the number you'd rather not write off. There's no wrong answer here, and a smaller one isn't a smaller person.

$43.99
per year — billed once
Enough to think twice

Nothing is charged today. You're reserving a spot and telling us what it's worth.

You're on the list

One question, one tap. Where does most of the scrolling you want to stop actually happen?

Read this before you sign up

What this isn't

01

It is not a lock you can't open

Settings → Screen Time → toggle off. Two taps, and every block on this phone drops instantly. No app sold on the App Store can prevent that — not this one, not the ones you've already tried. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying to you.

What we can do is make quitting a decision instead of a reflex, and cost you your streak when you make it. If you need something you physically cannot switch off, you need different hardware, not a different app.

02

It's the whole app or nothing

Apple gives third-party apps no way to block Reels without blocking Instagram, or Shorts without blocking YouTube. It's per app, all of it. If you genuinely need one for work, leave it off the list — and be honest with yourself about the word "genuinely."

03

The reps are awkward on purpose

Push-ups need the phone propped where the camera can see you. That works at home. It does not work in bed, in a bathroom stall, or on a packed train — which is where a lot of scrolling happens.

Steps cover some of that gap, but only above your baseline, so sitting still earns nothing no matter how long you sit. If most of your scrolling happens somewhere you can't move, this app will annoy you more than it helps.

04

None of this exists yet

There's no app to download. This page is us finding out whether enough people want the thing before we spend a year building it. If the answer is no, we'd rather learn that now — and you'll get an email saying so.