Times Up vs MathBlocker

Your apps stay locked until you can do the math. Times Up blocks the apps you open without thinking (social, video, games) and unlocks them only when you answer a quick math quiz. Each quiz buys a set window. When the timer runs out, everything locks again. WHY A MATH GATE BEATS A TIMER A "5 more minutes" button takes half a second and no thought, which is why you always tap it. A math quiz takes fifteen seconds and real attention, and that is long enough to notice you never meant to open the app. A lot of sessions end right there, before the unlock. IT GETS SHARPER AS YOU DO Times Up scores every problem you see and weights the next quiz toward what you keep missing. The facts you are slow on come back more often. The ones you have nailed return on a spacing schedule so they stay sharp. Everything runs on the device, so questions are instant. TEN TIERS PER OPERATION Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and missing-number puzzles ("? x 8 = 56"). Ten tiers each, climbing as your accuracy holds. Mental arithmetic is a real skill that most of us quietly lost to calculators, and this rebuilds it in the gaps you were going to waste anyway. YOU SET THE RULES Choose which apps to block, right down to whole categories. Set quiz length from 3 to 10 questions and pick how long each unlock lasts. A 4-digit PIN protects your settings from your own weaker moments. WHAT YOU SEE Overall accuracy and 7-day trend, tier badges for each operation, a Needs Work list of the problems you keep dropping, and a daily log of every quiz. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Every answer and score stays on your device. No cloud, no accounts, no advertising IDs, no ads. REQUIRES iOS 17 or later. Apple Family Controls permission, granted on first launch. SUBSCRIPTION Times Up Premium unlocks the full app, including app blocking, the adaptive quiz engine, and your stats. There is no free version. Premium is offered as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, and current pricing is shown in the App Store before you purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings, Apple ID, Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://www.timesupapp.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.timesupapp.com/terms-of-service Contact: contact@timesupapp.com

MathBlocker puts a math problem between you and the apps you open too much. You pick the apps you want blocked. When you try to open one after your time's up, a math question shows up instead. You answer it, you get a few minutes back. You don't, the app stays closed. The questions are real. They come from the same problem sets people use to study for the SAT, ACT, AMC, and AIME. You can set the difficulty. Easy questions if you just want a speed bump. Harder ones if you actually want to stop scrolling. Features - Block any app or category — social, video, games, news, browsers - Pick your difficulty, from warmup arithmetic to competition-level - Choose your problem set: SAT, ACT, AMC, AIME, Putnam, or general practice - Earn time back per problem solved (you set how much) - Daily, weekly, and per-app limits - Schedule blocks by time of day (bedtime, study hours, work hours) - Dashboard with usage broken down by app, hour, and day - Custom block screen so it actually feels like a stop sign - Works with Family Sharing if you're setting it up for someone younger A few ways people use it: blocking social apps during work hours. Locking everything after 10pm with hard math. Pairing it with actual SAT prep so the time you would've spent scrolling becomes practice instead. Everything stays on your phone. No account, no login, no data sent anywhere. iOS 16 and up. iPhone only.