Earn screen time by working out — 1 minute of exercise unlocks 1 minute on your blocked apps. Free trial, then subscription. Try your first session!
Can't put your phone down? Run Your Time makes screen time something you earn.
The app blocks your most distracting apps until you exercise. Work out for ten minutes, and you unlock ten minutes of screen time — one minute of activity for every minute on your phone.
Run Your Time is a subscription app and begins with a free trial. If it isn't the right fit, you can cancel anytime in Settings.
HOW IT WORKS
Choose the apps you want blocked, such as social media or games.
Complete a workout using any fitness app that syncs with Apple Health — Strava, Nike Run Club, Peloton, and Apple Watch workouts all count.
Open Run Your Time, and your exercise minutes convert into screen time.
When your time is up, your apps lock again automatically.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Block unlimited apps, enforced by real iOS Screen Time
Earn screen time from any workout and any fitness app
Bank your earned time throughout the week and redeem it anytime through midnight Saturday
Set a custom exchange rate, such as one minute of exercise for two minutes of screen time
Pause a session and save the remaining time for later
Track a live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen
STAY HONEST
Ask a friend or partner to set the passcode. Without it, you can't unblock your apps or change the rules — real accountability, not a setting you can quietly switch off.
Your health data never leaves your device. The app reads only your workout duration to credit your screen time.
Terms of Service: https://garretteledui.wixsite.com/run-your-time-app/eula
Privacy Policy: https://garretteledui.wixsite.com/run-your-time-app/privacy
This app does exactly what it claims to do! I’ve found that either (1) I’m encouraged to exercise more or (2) the screen-time lock deters me from using distracting apps - either way it’s a win. However, the timer and lock have seemed to glitch sometimes.Additionally, I think it would be great to add a scheduling feature, like having the ability to enforce the screen-time lock only during a certain time window (i.e. lock Netflix after 5pm to force me to work out before watching TV after work or lock Insta after midnight to force me to go to sleep and then workout first thing in the morning)
Great app, annoying bugs
ameliarthur
I love the premise of this app and it did substantially cut my screen time in a way that has lasted longer than other apps I’ve tried to use for similar purposes. The only thing is that I’ve been having a problem where if I check the app to see if my work has synched, don’t start the session but then come back later to actually start my session. I get a message that I already used my session, which is really annoying. But it’s been great to get off my phone and move my body more generally
Really sad
donut523
Please note I am really mad and sad about how this app is and take with a grain of salt that this is “constructive feedback”. This was one of my favorite apps and I was hospitalized and had to redownload it. But now it is stuck on a paywall where when I try to use the free version, it seems not to exist. The real difference why I chose this over free app blockers is not because of the “oh I run and get minutes off my own phone “ which is an okay concept but I liked it because it was free. And the kicker is in your description it says it’s free with paid premium, but when I try to find the free version it doesn’t exist. Please make a free version and thank you. This is like one of my first one star review as well. And how can google be free but not this?
So much potential
Kzphni
This is an amazing app, if it would work. Unfortunately the number of minutes sometimes glitches and doesn’t add up the exercise amount. Additionally I have the paid version and I have noticed that if I do another workout after starting (and pausing) but not using all the minutes my minute count will reset after the new workout to give me all the minutes for the week as if I used none. Please fix, this has such potential to be a great app.
Fixed a bug where a screen time session could get stuck at "0s remaining" and couldn't be stopped — open the app once after updating and it will clear itself. Pausing a session now re-blocks your apps immediately and banks your unused time for later.
Version 1.8.1
The developer, Dining Decider LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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