# Hardline: Screen Time Lock — Locks that don't bend.

> Locks that don't bend. (iPhone/iPad app by Matthew Berendt.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hardline-screen-time-lock/id6820647863 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Matthew Berendt](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792338648)
- Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is Hardline?

Your phone wins because it's easy. Hardline makes it hard.

Most screen time apps give you a limit and a button to ignore it. Hardline gives you locks that don't bend.

LOCKS DON'T BEND
• Set a daily limit for the apps that eat your time, in 5-minute steps. Hit it and they lock until midnight.
• Schedule locks for class, study or sleep: weekdays 9 to 5, every night 23:30 to 07:00.
• A running lock can't be paused, edited or deleted. That's the point.

UNLOCKING COSTS YOU
Pick how hard it is to break a lock:
• Firm: wait 5 minutes, then type a sentence to get in for 5 minutes.
• Hard: wait 10 minutes, type the sentence, and lose your streak.
• Brutal: no unlocks at all. Locks end when they end.
You can raise the strictness any time. Lowering it takes 24 hours.

FOCUS SESSIONS
Lock every distracting app for 25 minutes to 3 hours. No early exit. Breaking a session costs your streak.

ONE EMERGENCY PASS A WEEK
For the moments you really need your phone: everything opens for 15 minutes, then every lock comes back by itself.

STREAKS ARE EARNED
Every clean day counts. Stay clean and rank up from Recruit to Vault. Break a lock and you start from zero.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Blocking runs on your iPhone, through Apple's Screen Time.
• Hardline sees how long, not what you do inside apps.
• No account, no servers, no tracking. Nothing is sold. Ever.

FREE. ALL OF IT.
• Unlimited locks and schedules
• EXAM mode: locks with no unlocks that can't be switched off
• Weekly report: daily average, top time sinks and your worst hour
• Website blocking in Safari
No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no ads.

Privacy Policy: https://hardline.berendt.ai/privacy

## Is Hardline safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Hardline.

## Is Hardline legit?

Hardline: Screen Time Lock is no longer available in the App Store. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hardline is 33 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-12

No release notes.

## More apps by Matthew Berendt

- [Ironset](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ironset/id6792506938)

All apps by Matthew Berendt: https://appshunter.io/developer/6792338648

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