Unlockr
Unlockr is an iPhone app blocker that locks distracting apps until you earn time back with a short movement or mind challenge.
What is Unlockr?
Unlockr is an app blocker for iPhone that locks the apps that pull you in during the hours you set. To get back in, you complete a short challenge: squats, push-ups, a plank counted by the camera, or a round of Math or Memory. Earned minutes count down only while you are using the protected app, and unused minutes reset at midnight.
It is built for people who want a little more distance from endless scrolling without giving up their phone entirely. Each rule can follow work hours, wind-down hours or your own schedule, with its own apps, challenge and reward. The free plan covers one rule protecting one app, and Premium adds more apps, whole categories, websites and up to 8 rules.
Privacy is central to the design. Pose detection runs on your iPhone through Apple's Vision framework, frames are not saved or uploaded, and your app choices reach Unlockr only as opaque tokens that cannot be read back into app names. Math, Memory and Breathe work without camera access, and there are no ads or ad tracking. The app requires iOS 18 or later.
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