CalcGate | App Lock with Math vs Pull to Refresh

CalcGate is a screen time control app designed for people who want to break the habit of opening distracting apps without thinking. Have you ever opened social media “just for a minute,” only to lose track of time? Do you find yourself checking your phone when you should be studying, working, or focusing? Do app limits feel too easy to ignore or turn off? CalcGate adds a simple but effective moment of friction before you can reopen restricted apps. Choose the apps or app categories you want to limit, start a lock, and CalcGate will require you to solve math challenges before access can be restored early. Unlike blockers that can be dismissed instantly, CalcGate is designed to make you pause and ask yourself: “Do I really want to open this app right now?” To unlock early, every math problem must be answered correctly. If you make a mistake, your progress resets and the challenge starts again from the beginning. This small hurdle helps interrupt automatic habits like repeatedly opening social media, video apps, games, or other distractions without thinking. CalcGate is useful for study sessions, deep work, productivity, reading, reducing late-night scrolling, managing screen time, and building healthier digital routines. Key features: ・Restrict selected apps or app categories ・Start instant locks anytime ・Create recurring daily lock schedules ・Unlock early by solving math challenges ・Customize challenge difficulty and question count ・Reset progress after incorrect answers CalcGate is not about completely avoiding your phone. It is about using your phone more intentionally. Whether you want to improve focus, study without distractions, reduce social media overuse, build better habits, or create a healthier relationship with your device, CalcGate helps you pause before you tap. Start using CalcGate today and build the habit of thinking before unlocking.

Pull to refresh. Actually pull. Pick the apps that eat your day, give them an allowance, and when it runs out they lock. To get back in, you do reps. The camera counts them on your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps. Instagram, TikTok, X, games — whatever you actually lose hours to. 2. Set the allowance. So many minutes a day, a few minutes an hour, or nothing at all. 3. Run out, and they shut. 4. Do a set. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups or jumping jacks. 5. Spend what you earned, on whichever app you were reaching for. THE COUNTING IS HONEST Reps are scored from your body's joint positions, not from your phone shaking in a pocket. A rep only counts on a full movement — down to depth and back — so half-reps score nothing, and the app tells you why instead of leaving you guessing. Shaking the phone pays exactly zero. Time is measured in real use of those apps, not on a clock. Put the phone down mid-scroll and the minutes you paid for are still there. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE Pose detection runs on the device. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no account to make. iOS hands the app opaque tokens rather than names, so it can tell that you picked an app — never what you do inside it. IT COUNTS TWICE Finished sets can be saved to Health as workouts, so reps done here go to your Move ring and show up in Fitness with everything else. RACE SOMEONE Put your reps on a public board and chase a friend. Opt-in, under any name you like, and leaving deletes your row. PRO Free covers a whole working loop: one group of apps on a daily allowance, every exercise, rep counting, Health and the leaderboard. Forever. Pro makes the lock harder — it never makes it softer: - Strict mode. A rule you cannot switch off the moment you want to. Changing it costs a cooling-off period first, which is exactly when you would have caved. - Minutes per hour. Short check-ins instead of one long sitting. - As many rules as you like, with different limits for different apps. - Your whole history, with streaks. Money never buys screen time here. Only reps do that. Pro is a subscription, renewing until cancelled, or a one-off payment for good. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. WORTH KNOWING Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. You will be asked to grant it on first launch, and the camera when you do your first set. Deleting the app removes every lock, whatever you have bought — this is a speed bump you chose, not a cage. Privacy Policy - https://ef03b566.pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/privacy EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/