Tempo: Screen Time Blocker
Florent Michenaud Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Tempo: Screen Time Blocker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Florent Michenaud. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated September 23, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 9 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 23
- 2026 · v1.11.0
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About Tempo: Screen Time Blocker
Screen time isn't something you endure. You earn it. Tempo locks the apps that eat your time — TikTok, Instagram, games, whatever you choose. There's only one key to reopen them: exercise. Every real minute of activity feeds your screen-time balance. As long as it's positive, all your apps open; using them draws it down minute by minute, and iOS re-locks everything on its own once it's empty — even when Tempo is closed. No punishment, no guilt. Just a simple trade: you move, you unlock. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps to block. Tempo keeps them locked. 2. Work out like you normally do (Apple Watch, Strava, the gym…). Tempo reads your workouts from Apple Health. 3. Open Tempo: your minutes are credited to a single balance. "Workout counted, +28 min." 4. While that balance is positive, all your apps unlock at once — nothing to set up app by app. 5. The time ticks down as you use them; at zero, iOS re-locks everything automatically. WHAT MAKES TEMPO DIFFERENT • Exercise is the currency. Other blockers pit your willpower against temptation. Tempo turns effort into a reward. • One balance, zero micromanaging. No per-app timers to set: you earn, everything opens; you run out, everything closes. • Every activity counts. Running, walking, cycling, swimming, strength training… weighted by effort. Treadmill walks included. • Honest anti-cheat. Manually entered workouts in Health are ignored: you have to actually move. • Tuned to you. Ready-made profiles (Gentle, Balanced, Athletic, Spartan) or fully custom rates. ON YOUR WRIST (TEMPO PRO) Your balance lives on your wrist: what's left to spend, what you earned today, the next reward — and your day hour by hour. Turn the crown for your streak of earned days, then your week. Four complications for your watch face. And one thing your iPhone can't do alone: phone on the table, walk on the wrist. The watch counts those steps and reports them — Tempo keeps the better of the two sensors, never their sum. It's the same walk. TOTAL PRIVACY Nothing leaves your iPhone. No account, no server, no ads, no data collected. Your apps, your usage, your health data stay with you. Period. FREE, WITH PRO IF YOU WANT MORE Free: the full loop, every sport, unlimited blocked apps and categories, 60 min/day of unlocked time, automatic effort weighting, and your last 7 days. Tempo Pro: strict mode (loosening a setting waits 24 hours), a daily cap you set yourself, fixed per-sport rates, full history and its curve, weekly recap, widgets — and the Apple Watch app. 7-day free trial. Screen time is something you earn. Ready to move? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://movetempo.app/en/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.11.0 · Updated September 23, 2026
What a minute is worth, sport by sport. The Conversion page no longer shows a single multiplier. Each sport states what one of its minutes earns you, in screen minutes, and you set it right where you read it. Each sport is paid either by a fixed amount or by your heart — never both. Paid by heart rate, a minute is worth its zone: a hard minute pays far more, an easy one pays less than your amount. That's the deal, and it's why the choice is made sport by sport. Go and say which sports you hand to your heart: they no longer are by default. HIIT and hiking now have their own amount. Hiking counted as walking, at half rate; your next ones earn more. Your profile and what records your workouts have left the Conversion page for the first settings page: they also drive your bonuses and your cap, and that was nowhere to be seen. Changing profile now shows everything it moves before you confirm. And removing a locked app when you have nothing left to spend goes through a commitment you have to hold. The next day, your home screen tells you what that removal cost you in screen time. Nothing is taken back: it's a measurement, not a punishment.
App privacy
The developer, Florent Michenaud, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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