Screen time
costs steps

Tread blocks the apps that eat your day, then sells the minutes back to you for steps.

The price is yours, not ours

It is built from your own seven day average. Walk more than usual and minutes get cheaper. Fall behind and they get dearer. Your competition is last week's you, not a board full of people with more time to walk than you have.

How it works

Pick the apps that cost you the most.
iOS puts a shield in front of them.
Walk, and the price of a minute falls.
Buy 5 to 30 minutes at a time, straight from the shield, at the price on the screen.

What you keep

Minutes you do not spend roll into tomorrow, up to three days worth.
Three unblocks a week, no steps needed, for a day you cannot walk.
A streak that counts the days you matched your own average, with one freeze a month.
A commitment lock, for the hours you keep losing. Nothing lifts it early.

What we cannot see

Which apps you picked. iOS hands the app an opaque token, so Tread itself cannot name them.

Your screen time. iOS never gives it to the app as data. It only lets the app show you a view that iOS draws, so the numbers never reach our code.

Both of those are limits of the platform, not promises we are keeping.

Being straight about the limits. No app on iOS can make itself unremovable without enterprise management, and Tread does not pretend otherwise. You can always delete it. What it can do is put a price on the moment you reach for the thing you said you wanted less of.

Club

An optional subscription: five unblocks a week instead of three, three streak freezes a month instead of one, and no cap on shielded apps or schedules. $0.99 a month or $8.99 a year.

Club never makes screen time cheaper. The price still comes from your own steps, and unblocks are never sold on their own.

Coming to the App Store

Tread is on TestFlight now. If you want to try it early, write to saifsiddiqui2409@gmail.com.