# Stride: App Lock & Screen Time — Stop Doomscrolling, Walk More

> Stop Doomscrolling, Walk More (iPhone/iPad app by Yash Jain.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stride-app-lock-and-screen-time/id6767678750 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yash Jain](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896499200)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.4 · 19 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-01
- Data updated: 2026-10-22

## What is Stride?

Stride is an app lock you open by walking. Pick the apps you doomscroll, and they stay locked until you earn them back with steps: every 500 steps unlocks 15 minutes.

Willpower loses to an endless feed. Stride puts a short walk in the way, so you scroll less and walk more without fighting yourself.

WALK TO UNLOCK YOUR APPS
• Every 500 steps, counted by Apple Health, earns 15 minutes of app time.
• Walk to the shop, take the stairs, pace during a call: it all counts.
• Wear an Apple Watch? Steps from your iPhone and Watch are merged the way the Health app merges them, so a walk never counts twice.

AN APP BLOCKER THAT FEELS FAIR
• Open a locked app and Stride's shield appears instead. Tap once to start a pass with your earned minutes, with no detour through another app.
• Out of time? The shield shows how many more steps you need.
• Minutes are metered by actual use. Close the app and the clock stops.
• Minutes you don't use stay banked for the rest of the week.
• When your time runs out, your apps lock again on their own.

SEE YOUR REAL SCREEN TIME
• The Screen Time tab shows your phone time for today or the last 7 days: your daily average, your most-used apps and categories, and how often you pick up your phone.
• Spot which of your top apps aren't locked yet, and lock them from the same screen.

WATCH YOUR WALKS ADD UP
• A weekly step chart with your daily average and best day.
• Minutes earned, used and ready to spend, estimated distance, and a history of every pass.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Stride reads step counts from Apple Health and never writes to it. It locks apps with Apple's Screen Time tools. Your steps and Screen Time stay on your iPhone, and there's no account to create.

FREE AND PRO
Free: lock 1 app, enough to feel the habit change.
Stride Pro: unlimited apps, plus whole categories like Social, Games and Entertainment in one switch. Your steps always unlock what you've earned.

SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
Stride Pro is available as an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://stride-focus.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://stride-focus.com/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stride Pro Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| Stride Pro Yearly | $19.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stride Pro Lifetime | $39.99 | one-time |


## Is Stride safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Stride.

## Is Stride legit?

Stride: App Lock & Screen Time has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Stride is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-10-14

Fixed: on iPad, the Screen Time tab and setup could show "No Screen Time yet". Stride now reads this iPad's Screen Time.

Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps, banked minutes, locked apps and pass history carry over.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-12

See where your phone time goes, then lock it behind a walk.

NEW: SCREEN TIME
• A new Screen Time tab shows your iPhone time for today or the last 7 days: your daily average, how it compares with the week before, your most-used apps and categories, and how often you pick up your phone.
• See which of your top apps are locked and which aren't, and lock them right from the same screen.
• Your Screen Time stays on your iPhone. Apple shows it inside Stride; Stride can't read, save or upload it.

ALSO
• New "Rate Stride" option in Settings. Reviews help other people find Stride.

Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps, banked minutes, locked apps and pass history carry over.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-04

A warmer, calmer Stride, plus fixes to how steps and passes are counted.

NEW LOOK
• A fresh, cozy design across Today, Apps, Week and Settings.
• Today shows your progress to the next reward on a new step ring, with your banked minutes in their own card.
• Pull down on Today to refresh your steps from Apple Health.

STEPS AND MINUTES
• Fixed double-counted steps. If you wear an Apple Watch, a walk recorded by both your iPhone and your Watch used to count twice. It now counts once, the way Apple Health counts it, so you may see fewer steps than before.
• Progress now counts your whole week. Steps left over from earlier days carry toward your next 15 minutes, and Today and the shield show how many steps you still need.
• Stride can refresh your steps in the background (about once an hour, as iOS allows), so newly earned minutes can be ready on the shield without opening Stride first.
• After the Monday reset, the shield no longer offers last week's minutes.
• Fixed a bug where a very busy week (more than 30 passes) could give back minutes you had already used.

UNLOCKING
• Unlocking from the shield now keeps you in the app instead of sending you to the Home Screen.
• On iOS 26.5 and later, the shield's "Open Stride" button opens Stride directly.
• Removed the Dynamic Island countdown. It rarely appeared and could show the wrong time. Pass notifications still tell you at the halfway point, with 1 minute left, and when your apps re-lock.

Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps still come straight from Apple Health, and your locked apps, pass history and settings carry over.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-01

No release notes.

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