# Step Scroll: Earn Screen Time — Step to unlock your apps

> Step to unlock your apps (iPhone/iPad app by RYAN LOUIS KRANE.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/step-scroll-earn-screen-time/id6791864617 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [RYAN LOUIS KRANE](https://appshunter.io/developer/1868317299)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-17
- Data updated: 2026-09-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/step-scroll-earn-screen-time/id6791864617/reviews.md

## What is Step Scroll?

Step to unlock your apps.

Step Scroll locks the apps you pick and sells the time back in steps. Walking is the only currency. There is no timer to set and no way to talk your way past the lock.

THE RATE
Three flat rates, and you pick one. Easier: 1,000 steps buys 15 minutes. Recommended: 1,000 steps buys 10 minutes, which is 100 steps a minute. Strict: 1,000 steps buys 5 minutes. The app reads your own step history and arrives with one already selected. Take a different one with a tap, or change it later in Settings. Every step counts the moment you take it. No threshold to clear, no quiet haircut.

HOW IT WORKS
Open TikTok with nothing banked. The lock screen says how many steps buy your next 10 minutes. Walk them. Tap Spend 10 minutes right there, open the app again, and you are in.

- Connect Apple Health for steps and Screen Time for the lock.
- Gate TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, games, whatever eats your day.
- Walk. Minutes bank as you go.
- Spend 10 minutes at a time, on the locked app's own screen.

SPENDING
Time comes in 10-minute blocks. A block burns only while you are inside a gated app. Leave and it stops. Come back within the hour and the rest is still there. After that it expires. At midnight the balance resets. Nothing rolls over, because a balance you can save is a balance you will raid.

EASY AND HARD
Easy opens every day with a 30-minute cushion and two 5-minute emergency passes. Hard opens at zero. Every block is earned on foot, and the one valve is a borrow: 10 minutes from tomorrow, once a day. Tomorrow starts 10 minutes down, and the first block you walk clears it.

THE TOMORROW RULE
Loosening the deal starts at tomorrow's reset. A cheaper rate, Hard to Easy, dropping a gated app: all of it waits. Tightening is immediate. The moment you most want a cheaper rate is the moment you are standing at a locked app wanting in, and that is not the moment to decide.

WHO IT IS FOR
- People whose screen time doubles on the days they never leave the couch.
- People who have installed three app blockers and turned all three off by Thursday.
- People who would walk more if their phone gave them a reason.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- No account, ever.
- Steps are read from Apple Health and stay on your phone.
- Apple's Screen Time system does the blocking. Step Scroll never sees which apps you open or what you browse.
- Anonymous analytics only. Never sold, never linked to you, never tracked across apps.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Step Scroll needs a subscription: $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month. The price comes at the end of setup, after the app has shown you your own numbers.
- Requires iOS 17 or later, plus Health and Screen Time permission.
- iOS does not hand your Screen Time history to apps. Onboarding shows you Apple's own report and asks you to confirm the number.
- Step Scroll is not a medical device and gives no health advice.

TERMS
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Step Scroll Premium | $29.99 | per year |
| Step Scroll Premium | $9.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-17

No release notes.

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