Banked.: Earn your screen time

About Banked.: Earn your screen time

This is the biggest update Banked. has had. Sessions are gone — apps are simply limited from the moment you set up, with nothing to start or stop, and anything installed later is covered automatically. Earning is much wider: push-ups, squats, jumping jacks and high knees are counted by the camera on the device, and steps, stairs climbed, phone-down time, making your bed, two quick brain games and tasks set by a parent all bank minutes too. Rules now take effect the moment they change instead of at the next check, so locking and unlocking keeps up with what you actually did. For parents, rules stay set when you switch tabs or leave the app, the app list is alphabetical with a search bar, and the minutes adjuster covers your child's whole battery rather than stopping at 120. For kids, there's a once-a-day 30-minute emergency top-up, a dashboard stripped back to the number you came to see, and a new opening tour that shows what the app does before asking for anything. Setting up a child's phone is simpler too — choose that right at the start, and read the pairing code out loud if the camera won't cooperate.

App privacy

The developer, Zahid Anwar, reported these privacy practices to Apple.