Unlockr
1 minute
Breathe
Follow the circle through a guided minute. Returns 5 minutes and unlocks everything at once.
Screen time, earned
Move first.
Scroll on
purpose.
Unlockr puts one healthy decision between you and the feed. Breathe, move, then use the time you earn — only while you are actually using it.
iOS 18+
On-device vision
No ads
1 : 5
One minute of guided breathing returns five minutes of access. Harder challenges return more.
The fair balance
Earned time only moves when you do.
Put your phone down and your balance pauses. Come back later and the minutes you earned are still there — no disappearing countdown.
The Unlockr loop
Impulse in.
Intention out.
Set it up once. Unlockr takes care of the moment where habit usually wins.
01
Pick the apps that take your day
Choose individual apps or whole categories through Apple's own picker. Unlockr never sees which ones you chose, only an opaque token the system hands back.
02
Meet a shield instead of a feed
Opening a locked app shows a quiet screen with one button. No countdown to wait out, no way to tap through by accident.
03
Breathe or move to earn it back
Finish a challenge and the app opens. Your earned minutes sit in a daily balance that only counts down while the app is on screen.
Designed to hold up
Built to be hard to cheat, easy to live with.
Your balance survives a restart
Earned time is tracked against a stable identifier for each app, so force quitting Unlockr, rebooting, or reinstalling does not hand you free access. The balance resets on its own at midnight.
No way around the shield
Enforcement lives in Apple's Screen Time layer, not in a timer Unlockr can be talked out of.
One app at a time, or all of them
Earn access for a single app when that is all you need, or unlock everything at once after the daily breathing session.
Usage you can see
Each app in your list shows how long you have actually used it today.
Streaks that mean something
A day counts once you finish a real challenge, not for opening the app.
Choose your friction
Four ways to earn.
Reps and form are counted on device by the camera. Nothing is recorded.
20 reps
Squats
The camera counts depth and form. Returns 20 minutes for the app you picked.
15 reps
Push-ups
Prop the phone where it can see your shoulders and hips. Returns 20 minutes.
60 seconds
Plank
Hold the line while the timer runs. The longest hold returns the most time, 30 minutes.
The camera never leaves the room.
Counting reps needs a camera. It does not need a server.
Frames stay on device
Pose detection runs through Apple's Vision framework on your iPhone. No frame is written to disk or sent anywhere.
Your app list stays private
Apple hands apps to us as opaque tokens. Unlockr cannot read them back into names, and they are never synced.
No tracking, no ads
There is no advertising identifier, no analytics SDK, and nothing sold to anyone.
Straight answers
Questions people actually ask.
The short answers, before you download.
Can physical exercise actually reduce screen time?
Yes — pairing exercise with app access breaks the automatic habit loop. Unlockr locks the apps that pull you in and only unlocks them after a short breathing exercise or a set of squats, push-ups, or a plank, so opening them takes intention instead of a reflex.
Is there an app that requires a workout before you can use it?
That's Unlockr's core mechanic. Pick the apps that take up your day, and each one stays behind a shield until you complete a quick physical or breathing challenge to earn time back.
How do I set up my phone so apps only unlock after a workout or breathing session?
Install Unlockr, grant Screen Time (Family Controls) access, then choose which apps to protect. From then on, opening one of them shows a shield with a single button to start a challenge instead of the app itself.
Are there screen time blockers that gamify the process?
Unlockr tracks streaks and a weekly breakdown of time you've actually earned, rather than just blocking apps outright — so progress is visible, not just restricted.
How can I gamify my digital wellbeing habits?
Turn screen time into something you earn instead of something you're only denied. Unlockr's balance survives a restart and counts down only while you're actually using the app you unlocked, so the incentive stays honest.
From the App Store
What people are saying.
Real reviews from the App Store.
Really help me reduce screen time 🥹
Very helpful app. Should use this to improve your health and reduce using your phone every day.
This app is very useful. It offers different ways to improve your health, and it also helps curb overusing your phone for entertainment. A great app that supports both health and time management in daily life.
Really suited to helping cut down daily phone use.
Your next open can be different
Put the hard part
before the scroll.
One minute of intention can change the next hour.
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