EarnLock vs Takeback

It's 11pm again, and you couldn't name a single thing you saw. You didn't decide to spend two hours there. Nobody does. Those apps are built by people whose whole job is to decide it for you, and they are very good at it. So EarnLock takes the decision out of the moment and hands it to the one thing that can't be talked around: your body. MOVE FIRST. SCROLL LATER. Pick the apps that keep eating your evenings. Pick what a day of effort looks like — steps, active minutes or calories. Until you get there, those apps don't open. When you get there, they open by themselves, for the rest of the day. No timer to wait out. No "five more minutes." No argument at all, because there's nobody to argue with. Apple Health keeps score, and steps are hard to fake from the sofa. WHY THE LAST ONE STOPPED WORKING Every blocker you've tried left the key in your pocket: a password you chose, a delay you can sit through, a screen you dismiss twice and never see again. It holds for a week — until the one night it doesn't. After that it never holds again. EarnLock puts the key where your 11pm self can't reach it: a few thousand steps away. You can still get in. You just have to briefly become the kind of person who goes outside. That's the whole idea. Not discipline. A price. WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGES For the first week, EarnLock blocks nothing. It watches, so you see the real number before you judge yourself by it. Most people are surprised, and not pleasantly. Then the locking starts, and something quiet happens. You head out at 8pm meaning to check one thing, and come back having forgotten. Days stack into a streak. The grid on your Home Screen fills in, square by square, with proof that isn't a feeling. Half-days count too: reach 50% and an hour opens immediately. Effort always buys something. HONEST BY DESIGN Nothing leaves your iPhone. Not a step, not an app you locked, not a streak. No account, no login, no server, no analytics — there is nowhere for it to go. Health data is read-only and stays where it was. The free tier is a real one: one blocked app, real step tracking, your streak and every widget, forever. No trial that bills you on day three. No countdown invented to hurry you. If you upgrade, it's on a day you chose. WHAT'S INSIDE · Lock any app or category with Apple's own Screen Time controls · Earn with steps, active minutes or active calories · Halfway to your goal opens an hour, right now · Separate goals for workdays, evenings and weekends · Rest days you bank by going further — a streak that survives real life · A contribution grid of every day you earned, on your Home Screen · Apple Watch app, Live Activity and a Dynamic Island countdown · One tap to answer "what am I actually looking for right now?" · Siri, Shortcuts and a Control Center button for today's progress · 39 languages, full VoiceOver, text that scales to the largest sizes IF YOU'VE UNINSTALLED ONE OF THESE BEFORE Then you know how it goes: two good weeks, one bad night, gone. That isn't a character flaw. It's what happens when the only thing standing between you and the app is you. Put something real in the way — something you can always get past, on foot. Move first. Scroll later. —— Free forever: one blocked app, steps, streaks and every widget. Premium adds unlimited apps, every activity unit, Apple Watch, Live Activity, Smart Schedules, insights and rest-day shields — monthly, yearly, or one payment for life. Family Sharing included on every paid plan, for up to 6 people. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Takeback is Sarge, an AI coach who lets you into your social apps when you have a real reason and cuts off the doomscrolling. Not another app blocker. Other blockers lock everything, so you delete them by Friday. Or they're easy to skip. Sarge is tougher, but fair. A REAL REASON GETS YOU IN DMing a friend? Work? You get in. Doomscrolling? He cuts you off. He knows how long you've already scrolled today. 5 MODES. FIND YOURS. Some days your apps stay open, and the second you start doomscrolling, they lock. Some days every open costs a short wait while he tries to talk you out of it. On Blackout days, only a strong reason or a real emergency gets you in. Sarge picks your first modes, then you choose the one that works. HARDCORE WHEN YOU NEED IT On Hardcore days you say it out loud. Hold to talk, tell him why you need your apps, and he talks back. HE LEARNS YOU How you scroll. When you slip up. Then he adjusts your plan, and your daily limit steps down to your goal. YOUR ANTI-ALGORITHM Thousands of engineers. Billions of dollars. One job: keep you scrolling. Willpower can't beat that. It was never your fault. Sarge is an AI on your side against a billion-dollar feed. WANT MORE TIME? EARN IT. Go for a walk, work out, touch real grass, or hold a focus block. He checks the proof: your steps, a fresh photo, or 45 minutes with no unlocks. Pictures of pictures don't work on him. WHAT CHANGES Evenings that end in sleep, not a 2am feed. An attention span you can feel coming back. Hours that used to vanish with nothing to show for them. A phone you finally trust yourself with. WHO'S BEHIND IT Takeback is run by Stan Tatarnykov. He built games played by 80M+ people, so he knows how apps keep you hooked. Now he's on your side. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trytakeback.com/privacy