Grounded 1.9.0 • Friend Key: let someone you trust hold your passcode. Grounded makes a code you never see and you send it to a friend. Free for everyone. • Share your week: the weekly recap now makes story cards for your steps, the times you walked away from a blocked app, and your grove. • A free rest day each month: one missed day a month no longer breaks your streak. Premium keeps one per 7 days. • Home now shows your streak bonus while it applies: everything earns ×1.1 from a 7-day streak. • New setup offers evening Protected Time, 9 pm to 7 am. Change the hours or skip it.

Grounded 1.8.5 — a fairer credit system. • Your first unlock of the day costs its minutes. Later unlocks cost half again, so each one is a real choice. Unused minutes still come back when you lock early. • New emergency unlock: one free 5-minute unlock a day for when you genuinely need an app. Add a reason if you like; it stays on your iPhone. • Premium: set your own daily unlock limit in Settings › Unlocking. A tighter limit starts now; a looser one starts tomorrow. • With your permission, one anonymous daily total of credits earned and minutes used helps us keep the credit system fair.

Grounded 1.8.4 — accuracy and polish. • Starting a focus session during an unlock window now returns the window's unused minutes to your balance. • Step counts stay right when Apple Health delivers updates out of order, and yesterday's total no longer lingers after midnight. • Credits and streaks now agree across the widget, the shield, Siri and Progress when you cross the date line. • Nature spots show how much closer you need to walk to check in. • Sharing from Progress, place search and widget colours fixed, plus clearer wording on the paywall and during setup.

Grounded 1.8.3 — two quiet fixes. • Crossing the international date line westward no longer resets your credits mid-trip — your day rolls over once, not twice. • Anonymous usage counts now wait until you have seen the privacy notice during setup, in every country rather than only the EU.

Grounded 1.8.2 — a visual refresh, shaped by an independent design critique. - One calm green palette everywhere: the app's own eucalyptus replaces the leftover blue in links, page dots and Back - Every button, caption and card now meets the accessibility contrast bar, in light and dark - Home leads with your Unlock card; Focus gains a Start bar that shows the minutes and credits you'll get back - Progress is three clear sections: This week, Your trade, Habits - Nature: an "Add your own" spot button in the Nearby panel, clustered pins and readable labels - Larger text sizes: every screen re-flows instead of truncating or overlapping - Dozens of smaller fixes to spacing, colour and copy

Grounded 1.8.1 — the fix release. Two independent audits, every finding closed. - The onboarding paywall can never trap you: its buttons no longer wait on the App Store - Rating prompts work again, and only after you've actually seen the card - Focus sessions that ended while the app crashed now record the minutes you really did, on the right day - Lock Now from the Lock Screen tells you if it couldn't lock instead of pretending - 5- and 10-minute quick checks re-lock inside the app you're using - VoiceOver can reach every Retry, Dismiss and Premium button; text sizes scale everywhere - Names like O'Brien save correctly; Health asks only for steps and workouts - Dozens of smaller fixes to streaks, credits, notifications and copy

Grounded 1.8 — the reliability release. - The block screen now shows your banked credits and what to do next — even with notifications off - Smoother onboarding: no more waiting on a silent button - Focus sessions recover cleanly after interruptions; streak freezes no longer burn on timezone travel - Reminders respect quiet hours across timezone changes - Sharper celebrations, clearer unlock countdown, better VoiceOver support

NEW — Your grove. Your streak now grows a living eucalyptus grove on the Progress tab. The hero plant tracks your current streak, mature trees stand for everything you've earned over time, and the ground fills in with every nature visit. Miss a day and the grove rests — it never disappears. Also in this update: • A focus session can no longer be bought out with credits. What you start, you finish. • The Nature tab now shows the right prompt when location access is turned down. • The Home summary card keeps its layout at the largest text sizes. Earn your screen time.

Grounded 1.6 — the trust release. - Free trial now available on Monthly too - Clearer trial reminders before anything renews - Weekly recap shows what Premium actually earned you - Fixes: day-one score, onboarding layout, Nature tips, and a dead-end Manage Subscription link for Lifetime owners

NEW: Premium Lifetime — one purchase, every Premium feature, forever. Find it under Other plans on the Premium screen. Plus reliability and performance improvements throughout.

Bug fixes: your daily step-goal celebration now appears every day, streak reminders stay on time when you travel, and more reliability improvements.

A smoother start: pick your apps, choose how you'll earn, and see your first credits before deciding anything. Plus The Grounded Effect — a week-over-week look at how much less you're using your blocked apps — and reliability improvements.

Adds Premium Lifetime — a one-time purchase that unlocks everything in Premium, forever. No subscription, no renewals. Plus minor reliability improvements.

The biggest Grounded update yet. • Protected Time — schedule hours when credits can't be spent (sleep, work, dinner) • Quick Checks — 5 or 10-minute mini unlocks for when you just need a moment • Monk Mode — block everything except your essentials (Premium) • Workouts now earn credits — cycling, swimming, strength and more • A new block screen that shows your live credit balance • Commitment streak, weekly recap, a breathing pause before unlocking, Siri Shortcuts, and a one-time Lifetime upgrade Plus gentler onboarding (Health access is now optional) and dozens of reliability and accessibility improvements.

A calmer, more beautiful Grounded. We refreshed the entire look — a new editorial typeface, a cleaner eucalyptus-green palette, more natural depth, and smoother, more responsive touches across every screen. The deal is still the same: earn your screen time, one minute at a time.

NEW • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — your current streak and today's step progress, at a glance. • Share your progress — a new branded card for your streak, Focus Score, and credits. Also: smoother earning and unlocking, a cleaner Progress tab, and reliability fixes throughout. Earn your screen time.

Reliability and accuracy improvements.

Reliability and accuracy improvements.

Reliability and accuracy improvements across the app.

Cleaner paywall with a complete feature comparison so you can see exactly what Premium adds. Plus reliability improvements across paywall and subscription handling.

Reliability and performance improvements.

Bug fix: - Fixed an issue where users on the Free plan could keep more than 3 apps blocked after a Premium subscription expired. Your blocked-app selection is now re-checked whenever your subscription state changes.

Free-tier rebalance + new Premium gates. Free now caps at 60 unlock minutes/day across 2 windows. Step credits cap at 60/day, nature credits at 30/day. Mindfulness sessions earn at the standard rate (Premium gets the 30%-faster bonus). 3 free focus sessions/day. Today-only credit history. Premium removes all caps + unlocks longer focus sessions, custom nature spots, 6 themes, Streak Freeze, Strict Mode, and Month/Year progress. Bug fixes: Live Activity Lock Now now respects Strict Mode; iPad layout polish; small reliability fixes.

NEW: Your unlock window in the Dynamic Island. Glance at your phone to see the countdown live. Tap Lock Now from anywhere to end early — no need to open Grounded. Polish: better layout on iPad (compatibility mode) and small fixes from launch-week feedback.