Tonic: Earn Screen Time

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Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

No check-ins, no proof photos: earn your screen time by walking, reading, meditating, or sunlight. Time in your good apps counts too. Apps unlock on their own. Your phone works in the wrong order. Tonic isn't just another app blocker: your good habits unlock your apps, and the ones that only need boundaries get limits that fit. You bought the books. You downloaded Duolingo. You signed up for the meditation app. Tonic puts those things first, and lets your phone cooperate with the life you're already building. HOW IT WORKS Set any app as a reward for your good habits. Tonic tracks what would be too hard to log yourself: your progress in apps like Kindle or Duolingo, calories burned, whether you meditated this morning, even whether you've gotten outside. Require your habits each day, or bank productive minutes to spend later. For apps that only need boundaries, Tonic adapts to the problem: screen time limits by hours or by visits, cooldowns between sessions, or moments of pause that escalate the more you reach for it. You choose what locked looks like: a gentle nudge toward the good thing, a strict wall, or a pause that grows each time you haven't earned it. WORKS WITH THE APPS YOU ALREADY LOVE Reading, workouts, meditation, steps, sunlight, and sleep come straight from Apple Health and your Apple Watch, or from time spent in the productive apps you choose. No logging, no proof photos, no check-ins. And the unlock is real: when your habit counts, the shield lifts on its own. You don't open Tonic to prove anything or unlock anything by hand. Finish your reading, and your apps are simply open when you reach for them. WHAT YOU CAN SET UP Every app is a different problem. Rules can look like: "Don't let me into social media for longer than five minutes at a time until my watch has registered 20 minutes of sunlight." "Make it harder each time I reach for Instagram if I've used it more than Duolingo today." "After 5 visits on the weekend, make me pause when I reach for Slack or Teams." "When I reach for social media in the morning, redirect my phone to my journaling app." "Hard block mobile games until I've worked out three times in the last week, then give me an hour each earned day." YOURS TO CONTROL Tonic is self-directed and built for adults. You pick the apps, you set the rules, and you can change them whenever you want. No account. No parent. No lock you can't open. Your habits stay on your device. Tonic never sees which apps you chose, and your rules never leave your phone. Pick one app that gets in your way and one habit you keep meaning to do. Start there. A tonic for your habits. Break the bad, build the good. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tonichabits.com/privacy

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No check-ins, no proof photos: just earning and auto-unlocking your rewards. This update makes your earned time even more dependable, with steadier unlocks and sharper limit tracking for both time-based and visit-based limits. Set a limit by visits per day and Tonic now recognizes the days you stay under it.

Version 1.0.7

The developer, Sets Studio 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 .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Health & Fitness
    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Information

Provider
  • Sets Studio LLC
Size
  • 33.7 MB
Category
  • Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.1 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Tonic Unlimited USD 9.99
  • Tonic Unlimited USD 29.99
  • Learn More
Copyright
  • © 2026 Sets Studio LLC
  • Developer Website
  • Privacy Policy

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