Tempo
Your screen time is earned. Workouts unlock your apps.
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Tempo blocks the apps you choose — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, games — and reopens them only with minutes of real activity. Workouts and steps from Apple Health or Health Connect fill a balance of screen minutes, at the exchange rate you set. Above zero, every locked app opens; at zero, iOS shuts them again, even with Tempo closed. No ignore button, no emergency exit, no code. No account, no server, no analytics. Free on iPhone and Android.
PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- iOS
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Yes The app is a standard client-side mobile application integrating platform health APIs (HealthKit/Health Connect) with system app-blocking capabilities (Screen Time / FamilyControls).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #456 of 1268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
- StrollTime · ph · 2026-10-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- EarnTime · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Calma · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Time Recovery · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- WalkThen · ph · 2026-10-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- HonorFit · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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