EarnLock: App Blocker & Focus

It's 11pm again, and you couldn't name a single thing you saw.

You didn't decide to spend two hours there. Nobody does. Those apps are built by people whose whole job is to decide it for you, and they are very good at it.

So EarnLock takes the decision out of the moment and hands it to the one thing that can't be talked around: your body.

MOVE FIRST. SCROLL LATER.

Pick the apps that keep eating your evenings. Pick what a day of effort looks like — steps, active minutes or calories. Until you get there, those apps don't open. When you get there, they open by themselves, for the rest of the day.

No timer to wait out. No "five more minutes." No argument at all, because there's nobody to argue with. Apple Health keeps score, and steps are hard to fake from the sofa.

WHY THE LAST ONE STOPPED WORKING

Every blocker you've tried left the key in your pocket: a password you chose, a delay you can sit through, a screen you dismiss twice and never see again. It holds for a week — until the one night it doesn't. After that it never holds again.

EarnLock puts the key where your 11pm self can't reach it: a few thousand steps away. You can still get in. You just have to briefly become the kind of person who goes outside.

That's the whole idea. Not discipline. A price.

WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGES

For the first week, EarnLock blocks nothing. It watches, so you see the real number before you judge yourself by it. Most people are surprised, and not pleasantly.

Then the locking starts, and something quiet happens. You head out at 8pm meaning to check one thing, and come back having forgotten. Days stack into a streak. The grid on your Home Screen fills in, square by square, with proof that isn't a feeling.

Half-days count too: reach 50% and an hour opens immediately. Effort always buys something.

HONEST BY DESIGN

Nothing leaves your iPhone. Not a step, not an app you locked, not a streak. No account, no login, no server, no analytics — there is nowhere for it to go. Health data is read-only and stays where it was.

The free tier is a real one: one blocked app, real step tracking, your streak and every widget, forever. No trial that bills you on day three. No countdown invented to hurry you. If you upgrade, it's on a day you chose.

WHAT'S INSIDE

· Lock any app or category with Apple's own Screen Time controls
· Earn with steps, active minutes or active calories
· Halfway to your goal opens an hour, right now
· Separate goals for workdays, evenings and weekends
· Rest days you bank by going further — a streak that survives real life
· A contribution grid of every day you earned, on your Home Screen
· Apple Watch app, Live Activity and a Dynamic Island countdown
· One tap to answer "what am I actually looking for right now?"
· Siri, Shortcuts and a Control Center button for today's progress
· 39 languages, full VoiceOver, text that scales to the largest sizes

IF YOU'VE UNINSTALLED ONE OF THESE BEFORE

Then you know how it goes: two good weeks, one bad night, gone. That isn't a character flaw. It's what happens when the only thing standing between you and the app is you.

Put something real in the way — something you can always get past, on foot.

Move first. Scroll later.

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Free forever: one blocked app, steps, streaks and every widget. Premium adds unlimited apps, every activity unit, Apple Watch, Live Activity, Smart Schedules, insights and rest-day shields — monthly, yearly, or one payment for life. Family Sharing included on every paid plan, for up to 6 people.

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