# EarnLock: App Blocker & Focus — Your steps unlock screen time > Your steps unlock screen time (iPhone/iPad app by Antti Aittamaa.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earnlock-app-blocker-and-focus/id6771099230 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Antti Aittamaa](https://appshunter.io/developer/1855943133) - Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 11 MB - Languages: Australian English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany) and 23 more - Released: 2026-05-25 - Data updated: 2026-08-23 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earnlock-app-blocker-and-focus/id6771099230/reviews.md ## What is EarnLock? 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. —— 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. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | EarnLock Premium Monthly | $1.99 | per month | | EarnLock Premium Yearly | $9.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | EarnLock Premium Lifetime | $19.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6.1 — 2026-08-21 A year of showing up, one square at a time. You already know what a good streak feels like. Now you can see the shape of the whole thing — every day you earned, twelve months back, sitting on your Home Screen where the apps you locked used to be. NEW — Contributions One square per day, filled in by what you actually did. Every shade is a real threshold: a day still locked, a half-earned hour, a goal met, a day you went far enough to bank a rest day. Choose a year, six months or three — one long ribbon, or two roomy rows. NEW — Streak Your current run, your longest ever, and the rest days you've banked. The flame only lights when you've kept it going. NEW — Summary Two views in one widget: your headline numbers at a glance, or the last few days told day by day. NEW — Control Center Put today's progress in Control Center, on the Lock Screen, or on the Action button, and see how close you are without opening anything. BETTER EVERYWHERE • The whole widget family redrawn on one type and spacing system — sharper at small sizes, calmer at large. • Tinted Home Screens: the grid now reads as a real ramp instead of a wall of identical squares. • The grid is a single VoiceOver element that reads like a sentence, not 371 separate squares. • Days we never measured stay honest — hollow, never quietly turned into a zero. • Right-to-left layouts: month labels now run the same direction as the grid beneath them. • Every new word translated into all 39 languages, plurals included. Still free, still yours: every widget, every size, no subscription. Nothing leaves your iPhone. Move first. Scroll later. Built by one independent developer who reads every message. Thank you for being here. ### 1.5 — 2026-07-19 Your effort, finally visible. Three new widgets put your history on your home screen — so the days you earned are something you can see, not something you have to remember. Because the streak you can see is the one you keep. NEW — History widgets • This Month — a real calendar that fills in as you earn, and starts fresh on the 1st. • Last 30 Days — a rolling window that never resets, showing exactly where you're trending. • This Year — every month in one quiet ring. Every size, every screen • Home screen: small, medium, large — plus Extra Large on iPad. • Lock screen: your progress, right above the clock. • Your history isn't behind a paywall. Every widget, every size, no subscription. Also better • Today's ring now wears the full EarnLock gradient. • Your last 7 days read honestly: earned days stand out, missed days stay calm, and days we never measured are never faked into zeros. • Numbers, dates and weekdays now read correctly in all 39 languages. • Widgets turn over cleanly at midnight, so today is always today. Move first. Scroll later. Built by one independent developer who reads every message — your feedback shapes what comes next. Thank you for being here. ### 1.4 — 2026-07-01 Earn your screen time — don't just spend it. EarnLock turns your real-world activity into the key that unlocks the apps that pull at your attention. Move more, scroll less, and take your day back — one earned unlock at a time. New in this version • Siri & Shortcuts — ask EarnLock how close you are to unlocking, or start a focus session, completely hands-free. • Smoother, calmer, and quieter throughout, tuned to stay out of your way. Built by one independent developer who reads every message — your feedback shapes what comes next. Thank you for being here. ### 1.3 — 2026-06-11 Earn your screen time — don't just spend it. EarnLock turns your real-world activity into the key that unlocks the apps that pull at your attention. Move more, scroll less, and take your day back — one earned unlock at a time. New in this version • Milestone cards — a calm, shareable moment when your streak reaches 7, 30, or 100 days. • Smoother, faster, and quieter throughout, tuned to stay out of your way. Built by one independent developer who reads every message — your feedback shapes what comes next. Thank you for being here. ### 1.2 — 2026-06-10 Earn your screen time — don't just spend it. EarnLock turns your real-world activity into the key that unlocks the apps that pull at your attention. Move more, scroll less, and take your day back — one earned unlock at a time. New in this version • Milestone cards — a calm, shareable moment when your streak reaches 7, 30, or 100 days. • Smoother, faster, and quieter throughout, tuned to stay out of your way. Built by one independent developer who reads every message — your feedback shapes what comes next. Thank you for being here. ## More apps by Antti Aittamaa - [GymLogger X: Workout Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gymlogger-x-workout-tracker/id6755734580) - [AfterShift: Sleep & Shift Work](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aftershift-sleep-and-shift-work/id6757163182) - [AllPaid – Bill Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/allpaid-bill-tracker/id6757253009) - [RightSplit: Bill Splitter Tip](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rightsplit-bill-splitter-tip/id6757268612) - [Soon. - Days Until Big Events](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/soon-days-until-big-events/id6757280643) - [Taskful Day: Day Planner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/taskful-day-day-planner/id6757345400) All apps by Antti Aittamaa: https://appshunter.io/developer/1855943133 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*