ScreenReps vs Tempo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScreenReps
This app blocks distracting applications, requiring physical exercise to unlock them. Earn minutes by completing exercises like push-ups or squats, or by syncing with health data. Spend earned minutes to access your apps for a set duration, with unused time returning to your bank.
- App blocking with exercise unlock
- AI-powered exercise form verification
- Apple Health data integration
- Gym check-ins for bonus minutes
- Customizable exercise-to-time ratios
- Banked minutes for flexible app access
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ScreenReps blocks the apps that own your attention until you earn the time back with real movement. Pick the apps that scroll-trap you — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whatever — then set how many push-ups, squats, or steps unlock a minute. Open a blocked app and you'll see a shield instead of the feed. Knock out the reps and your earned minutes bank automatically, ready to spend whenever you want. HOW UNLOCKING WORKS When you're ready for a break, spend your banked minutes to unlock your apps for a set window — 15, 30, or 60 minutes. The countdown runs, and when it's up, the shield comes back automatically. Done early? Lock up and the unused minutes go straight back to your bank. Your effort is never wasted. THREE WAYS TO EARN • Camera + on-device AI verifies your form for push-ups, squats, planks, and more — no cheating, no honor-system timers • Apple Health pulls your steps, flights climbed, and swim strokes automatically • Pin your gym; checking in unlocks bonus minutes when you actually show up WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PRO Free: walking, squats, push-ups, planks, custom ratios, daily streak, and app blocking with no limit on how many apps you block. Pro ($9.99/mo or $49.99/yr with a 3-day free trial): all exercises, weekly schedules, gym check-ins, schedules, strict lock, bank unused minutes forever, and monthly and yearly stats. PRIVACY FIRST Your health and location data stay on your device. We don't sell or share anything. No accounts. No ads. Stop scrolling. Start moving. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tempo
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Screen time isn't something you endure. You earn it. Tempo locks the apps that eat your time — TikTok, Instagram, games, whatever you choose. There's only one key to reopen them: exercise. Every real minute of activity feeds your screen-time balance. As long as it's positive, all your apps open; using them draws it down minute by minute, and iOS re-locks everything on its own once it's empty — even when Tempo is closed. No punishment, no guilt. Just a simple trade: you move, you unlock. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps to block. Tempo keeps them locked. 2. Work out like you normally do (Apple Watch, Strava, the gym…). Tempo reads your workouts from Apple Health. 3. Open Tempo: your minutes are credited to a single balance. "Workout counted, +28 min." 4. While that balance is positive, all your apps unlock at once — nothing to set up app by app. 5. The time ticks down as you use them; at zero, iOS re-locks everything automatically. WHAT MAKES TEMPO DIFFERENT • Exercise is the currency. Other blockers pit your willpower against temptation. Tempo turns effort into a reward. • One balance, zero micromanaging. No per-app timers to set: you earn, everything opens; you run out, everything closes. • Every activity counts. Running, walking, cycling, swimming, strength training… weighted by effort. Treadmill walks included. • Honest anti-cheat. Manually entered workouts in Health are ignored: you have to actually move. • Tuned to you. Ready-made profiles (Gentle, Balanced, Athletic, Spartan) or fully custom rates. ON YOUR WRIST (TEMPO PRO) Your balance lives on your wrist: what's left to spend, what you earned today, the next reward — and your day hour by hour. Turn the crown for your streak of earned days, then your week. Four complications for your watch face. And one thing your iPhone can't do alone: phone on the table, walk on the wrist. The watch counts those steps and reports them — Tempo keeps the better of the two sensors, never their sum. It's the same walk. TOTAL PRIVACY Nothing leaves your iPhone. No account, no server, no ads, no data collected. Your apps, your usage, your health data stay with you. Period. FREE, WITH PRO IF YOU WANT MORE Free: the full loop, every sport, unlimited blocked apps and categories, 60 min/day of unlocked time, automatic effort weighting, and your last 7 days. Tempo Pro: strict mode (loosening a setting waits 24 hours), a daily cap you set yourself, fixed per-sport rates, full history and its curve, weekly recap, widgets — and the Apple Watch app. 7-day free trial. Screen time is something you earn. Ready to move? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://movetempo.app/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tempo at every 3 days against ScreenReps's every 2 weeks. ScreenReps's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ScreenReps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Tempo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScreenReps ships an update every 2 weeks, Tempo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScreenReps | Tempo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ibrahim Mostafa | Florent Michenaud |
In-app purchases
ScreenReps
- Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Tempo
- Tempo Pro — Monthly$3.991 Month
- Tempo Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Tempo Pro — Lifetime$69.99









