Comparison

FitLock vs Tempo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FitLock

This app helps you reduce screen time by linking app access to completing health goals. Set specific apps or categories to block, and unlock them by achieving targets like steps or active calories via Apple Health. It's designed to interrupt compulsive app usage and encourage healthier habits.

Highlights
  • Block specific apps or categories
  • Unlock with Apple Health goals
  • Supports 63 health metrics
  • Flexible goal logic (AND/OR)
  • 1-hour cooldown for lock requests
  • Track streaks and history
  • Custom manual goals
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FitLock helps you turn healthy habits into the key that unlocks your apps. Choose the apps or categories you want to block, then set a goal using Apple Health data. When your goal is complete, FitLock unlocks your selected apps. If you do not follow through, there is a real consequence: the apps you chose stay locked. FitLock is designed to help reduce doomscrolling, support better focus, protect your attention span, and create a healthier pause between impulse and action. It can be especially useful for people who struggle with distraction, ADHD-style focus challenges, social media overuse, or compulsive app checking. Instead of relying only on willpower, FitLock gives your brain a clear trade: complete a real-world health goal, then regain access. If you request access before finishing your goal, FitLock uses a 1-hour cooldown period before pausing locks, giving you time to reconsider, let the urge pass, and return to your goal. FitLock works with Apple Health and supports 63 health and habit metrics, including steps, active calories, workouts, exercise minutes, walking and running distance, cycling distance, mindful minutes, sleep, weight, body mass index, water, protein, vitamins, nutrition data, handwashing, toothbrushing, and more. Create flexible health keys: - Block specific apps or entire app categories - Unlock with one Apple Health goal or multiple goals - Use AND logic when every goal must be completed - Use OR logic when any goal can unlock your apps - Set daily reset times or lock until the goal is reached - Track streaks and recent completion history - View current Apple Health metric progress inside the app - Use custom manual goals for habits that are not tracked automatically - Pause locks only after a 1-hour cooldown period FitLock is built for people who want more intentional screen time without relying only on timers, guilt, or willpower. It helps interrupt doomscrolling loops and replaces passive phone use with movement, recovery, hydration, training, mindfulness, or the health goals you already care about. Your progress is powered by Apple Health data and stays focused on your goals. Choose what matters, build your lock, and let your health habits open the door.

About

Tempo

Features
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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

Screenshots

FitLock4 screens
Tempo4 screens

Verdict

The call

FitLock and Tempo are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FitLock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FitLock versus Tempo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitLockTempo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeff BurnsFlorent Michenaud

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FitLock

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99
3 purchases

Tempo

Subscriptions2
  • Tempo Pro — Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Tempo Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Tempo Pro — Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is FitLock free?
FitLock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tempo free?
Tempo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FitLock or Tempo have ads?
Neither FitLock nor Tempo shows ads.

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