# Balpum - Steps to Unlock — Screen time you walk for

> Screen time you walk for (iPhone/iPad app by Fount Lab.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/balpum-steps-to-unlock/id6811479650 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Fount Lab](https://appshunter.io/developer/6811479652)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English, Korean
- Released: 2026-09-15
- Data updated: 2026-10-13

## What is Balpum?

Want to scroll? Walk for it.

Balpum turns your steps into screen time. 100 steps buys one minute. You get 15 free minutes a day — everything above that, you earn on foot.

How it works
Steps become screen time. The count your iPhone and Apple Watch already keep in the Health app flows straight in, so there is nothing extra to do.
When your screen time runs out, your social apps lock.
Go for a walk, and they open again.

It doesn't block you
The lock screen always has "Open anyway." Tap it and the app opens.
But that day gets a smudge on your record, it counts in your weekly report, and the app locks again after 15 minutes.

Apple Watch
Start a session on your Watch and your wrist is tapped every 100 steps.
Steps taken in heart rate Zone 2 earn 1.5x.
Sessions are saved as workouts, so they fill your Activity rings too.

Weekly Nag
Once a week, a plain account of how far you walked and how often you ignored the lock.

You set the rate
If 100 steps feels too cheap, make it 200. If 15 free minutes feels generous, make it 0.

Private by default
No account, no sign-in, no backup.
Your steps and usage stay on your device and never leave it.

Locking requires Screen Time access. It is used only to manage your own device, and never to supervise anyone else's.

## Is Balpum safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Balpum.

## Is Balpum legit?

Balpum - Steps to Unlock has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Balpum is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.6 — 2026-09-29

See how your walking has changed since Balpum.

- The History card now shows your daily average steps for the 3 months before Balpum and since.
- Streaks now count from the day you started Balpum, on days with 2,500 steps or more. You can change this in Settings.

### 1.1.5 — 2026-09-22

Polished the wording in Weekly Nag.

- A line that didn't fit the week could show up.

### 1.1.4 — 2026-09-21

Fixed issues that could occur with the widget, the lock, and loading your steps.

- Refreshing could keep loading without finishing.
- The widget could show a balance that didn't match the app.
- The lock could take a while to apply after you changed your lock settings.
- Some carried-over time could go missing at midnight.
- The weekly note could read awkwardly.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-09-18

Fixes so the lock and the usage tally actually work.

- Websites you pick as lock targets now count and lock. Before, you could pick them and nothing happened. Websites inside a category you pick are covered too.
- Fixed usage that stopped being recorded partway through the day — especially after changing lock settings.
- Fixed the lock coming on while you still had time left.

### 1.1.2 — 2026-09-17

Send your weekly report out as an image.

- **Share the weekly report** — this week's steps and earned time, as a single card.
- Reworded the Weekly Nag. It sometimes produced a sentence that didn't make sense.
- Choosing "Turn it on now" during onboarding now takes you straight to lock settings. It used to leave you to find them.
- Fixed the button and icon over a locked app being hard to read in dark mode.

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