ACCESS never says no up front. You get your minutes — really use them, guilt free. When they're spent, your apps lock themselves, then unlock on their own. No ignore button. No negotiating.
In App Review — launching on the App Store soon. Free.
Every other screen-time app fights you at the exact moment you're weakest. ACCESS moves the decision to when you're thinking clearly.
Choose the apps that eat your time and how many minutes of real use they get. 15 by default — it's your call.
No friction, no guilt, no nagging. Only real use counts — your phone sitting on the desk costs nothing.
At zero, iOS locks the apps for a stretch — then unlocks them automatically. You never negotiate with your phone.
Your chosen apps share one budget and lock as one. Closing TikTok to open YouTube doesn't reset anything — the whole habit locks, not just its loudest corner.
Cravings peak and pass in minutes. The lock simply outlasts the spike — by the time it ends, you usually don't go back.
"Ignore limit" buttons teach you that limits are suggestions. When there's no button, the arguing part of your brain goes quiet fast.
Idle time is never counted against you, so the system always feels fair. Fair systems are the ones you keep.
ACCESS is built on Apple's Screen Time API, which hands the app anonymous tokens instead of app names. It literally cannot know which apps you picked or what you do in them. There's no account, no analytics, no server — everything stays on your phone.
Open ACCESS and end the lock early — the remaining time is added to your next lock, so honesty is built in. Unless you turned on Strict mode. Then the lock ends when it ends. That one's on you.
Locks are enforced by iOS itself through Screen Time, not by ACCESS running in the background. The point isn't to be unbeatable — it's to make escaping more work than waiting.
Because the core protection should be free. Basic covers 3 apps with editable minutes and the full lock cycle, forever. Pro is for people who want every number and rule their way.
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