SOL Galaxy vs StepLock

SOL Galaxy — Focus Timer A focus timer where your time powers a galaxy. Travel between planets, manage alien relations, and build your influence—one study session at a time. SOL Galaxy is a galaxy-traversing study timer game that transforms your time and focus into meaningful progress across a vast, interconnected universe. At its core, the experience blends productivity with exploration, strategy, and puzzle mechanics. Every action you take in real life—studying, working, or concentrating—generates fuel, the single most important resource in the game. Fuel is what allows you to move through space, interact with planets, send delegations, build embassies, collect resources, and expand your presence across the galaxy. By leaving the app when the timer is on, you will have 10 seconds to come back to the app or your fuel is wasted. The game is structured around long-term progression and discovery. Players are free to travel between planets, but access is not always straightforward. Many planets require specific items before you can land, while others demand specialized safety equipment such as thermal suits or dive rebreathers to survive their environments. This creates a layered puzzle system where exploration depends on preparation, planning, and resource management rather than simple progression. Each planet is inhabited by a unique species with its own disposition toward you. Some civilizations are open to your arrival, but most are resistant or hostile at first. In order to gain access to their resources, you must build relationships over time. This is done by sending delegations, which gradually improve how that species perceives you. Once relations reach a certain level, you gain the ability to establish an embassy on that planet. Embassies serve as your foothold, allowing you to collect that planet’s resources and integrate it into your expanding network. However, resource extraction is not without consequence. Taking resources lowers your standing with that species, introducing a constant strategic tension. If relations fall too low, the inhabitants may retaliate and destroy your embassy, forcing you to rebuild trust and start again. This system creates a balance between expansion and diplomacy, requiring careful decision-making at every stage. Progression in SOL Galaxy is intentionally extensive, offering over 800 hours of gameplay. There are 115 unique resources scattered across the galaxy, each tied to different planets and conditions. Fully completing the game requires visiting every planet, unlocking access through items and preparation, building relationships, and successfully collecting all available resources. The ultimate objective is to reach the Singularity. This endgame event only becomes available once all resources have been collected and every major objective has been completed. The Singularity represents the final destination of your journey, serving as both a culmination of your efforts and the conclusion of the galaxy’s progression system. SOL Galaxy is designed as more than just a timer. It is a system where productivity directly fuels exploration, where time becomes a currency, and where consistent focus leads to tangible, long-term achievement.

Put your phone down with steps, not willpower. StepLock locks the apps that pull you in and ties them to one thing: the steps you take today. Every app gets its own step count. Reach it, and that app opens until midnight. No minutes to spend, no countdown, no "5 more minutes" button. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps you want locked. 2. Give each one a step price — Instagram 4,000, TikTok 8,000, games 12,000. 3. Walk. An app unlocks on its own the moment you pass its number, and stays open for the rest of the day. Everything resets at midnight, so tomorrow you pay the price again. ONE RULE, NO LOOPHOLES • You can change an app's price whenever you like — but only upward. Any number below the steps you have already taken never appears in the list, so there is no lowering your way out of a lock. • Once an app opens, its price is fixed for that day. • Any setting that would change today's outcome takes effect tomorrow. ON THE MAIN SCREEN • The day's ring: your steps, your goal and how far each app still is, at a glance. • Your locked list: what has opened, and how many steps the rest need. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — check your steps without opening the app. • History: a five-week chart, the days you hit your goal, and your streak. • Notifications when an app unlocks, and an evening nudge if your goal is still short. • English and Turkish, light and dark. PRIVACY StepLock has no server. Your step count comes from Apple Health with read-only access and never leaves your device. The apps you choose are stored as Apple's own opaque Screen Time tokens — StepLock cannot see which apps you locked. No analytics, no ads, no account, no data collection. AN HONEST NOTE StepLock is not a prison. Remove an app from the list and it is free immediately — you should not be stuck all day with something you added by mistake. The point is not to make escape impossible, but to put a few seconds of friction in front of that thoughtless first tap. Most days, that is enough. Completely free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. REQUIREMENTS iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Health permission to read your steps, and Screen Time (Family Controls) permission to lock apps.