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Life & fun · January 5, 2024

Fitlock – Block apps until you reach your daily fitness/health goals

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…

Fitlock – Block apps until you reach your daily fitness/health goals launched on January 5, 2024 with 6 votes, #2,120 of 4,437 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Take control of your digital life with Fitlock, the revolutionary fitness-based screen time app that helps you reduce screen time and improve fitness by blocking apps until you reach your personalized health and fitness goals. Powered by Apple Health and Apple Screen Time, Fitlock creates a customized experience for each user. Set goals for steps taken, calories burned, exercise time, and more. On

Earn screen time to distracting apps & websites by completing daily health/fitness goals. Limit access to the applications and websites that distract you from doing things that are beneficial to your wellbeing. Create fully customisable schedules that fit around your lifestyle. Once your fitness goals are met, your apps/websites are unblocked for the specified time. Fitlock includes a number of different health metrics that fit your lifestyle. Such as, step count, workout time, time outside, cycling distance and many more! Sometimes you just need to have access to your apps. Fitlock allows you to take breaks from your app block. However, delays will take longer if you take more breaks. At…from fitlock.io

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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