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24 alternatives to RunLock

Earn your screen time by walking or running.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Fitlock▲236

    Earn screen time by completing daily health/fitness goals

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Walk to unlock apps

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    1Block▲64

    Highly customizable app blocking and app timer for Android

    2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Barrier▲373

    Stop doomscrolling by blocking your addictive apps!

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Complete Steps Get Screen Time

    Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your steps into screen time

    Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Introducing Fitlock, the privacy-focused app designed to empower users in curbing screen time and enhancing fitness through the utilisation of Apple Health and Screen Time features. Fitlock's innovative approach involves blocking apps and websites until users achieve their daily health and fitness objectives. Here's how Fitlock operates: users can establish a personalised schedule to block specific apps at chosen times of the day, adjusting the strictness level of the block to suit their preferences. Once the user's schedule is active, the blocked apps remain inaccessible until they…

    2024 · fitlock.io · its alternatives →

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    🌱 Walk More. Scroll Less. Unlock Apps with Movement.

    Jul 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Block apps with one tap and stay focused when it matters

    2022 · appblock.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built ScreenBreak after realizing that most app blockers failed in practice. “Hard blocks” were too rigid — I either locked myself out entirely or tapped Ignore Limit and kept scrolling. There was no useful middle state. In reality, people still need to open apps like TikTok or Instagram for specific tasks: looking something up, replying to someone, checking updates, etc. The problem isn’t intentional use; it’s the unplanned, unconscious scrolling that follows. I wanted a system that interrupts the impulse without fully preventing access. ScreenBreak uses soft blocking plus…

    Dec 2025 · screenbreak.app · its alternatives →

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    Set time or locations to block distractions from apps.

    2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    We lock your phone. You unlock it with steps.

    May 2026 · stepkey.app · its alternatives →

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    Find your motivation to get moving

    2017 · runforstuff.com · its alternatives →

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    Unhook▲82

    Reduce screen time on your phone by taking short walks

    2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Latch▲80

    The app blocker you unlock by walking to your key

    4d ago · latch.luklalogic.ai · its alternatives →

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    Block distracting apps. Do exercise to unlock them.

    Aug 2026 · actionlock.online · its alternatives →

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    Walk to scroll. Lock the apps that steal your time.

    May 2026 · steppio.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Block distracting apps. Earn access with movement.

    Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Block apps and set focus timers to help iPhone addiction.

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Hatano▲15

    The app blocker you can't outsmart, only outwalk

    Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Walk to Unlock

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Lock your apps. Unlock them by doing something real.

    Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Screen time management made fun.

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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