Screen time for iPhone
Pick the apps that eat your day. When you open one, iOS blocks it and hands you to SweatWall for a short set of squats or sit-ups — counted by the phone’s own sensors, no camera. Finish, and every protected app unlocks for a window you set.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later
Three free unlocks. No account. Turning it off is free on any plan.
Open a protected app and iOS shows a shield instead of the feed. It is not a countdown and there is no “continue anyway” — the button hands you to SweatWall. Your apps share one wall, so a single session opens all of them; you are never doing squats twice in a row for two different feeds.
Squats or sit-ups, phone held against your chest. Motion sensors count the reps as they land — no honour system, no plus button, no camera. Nothing is uploaded either, because there is no server to upload it to.
Not a timer you can dismiss, and not a punishment — a beat of friction that turns an autopilot tap into a decision. Nothing here is held hostage: there are no streaks to break, and switching SweatWall off costs nothing on any plan.
What it looks like
The home screen, at real values. It tells you where you stand in a sentence before it shows you a figure — then exactly two: reps banked, and the times you walked away. A third number would only be something else to optimise.
The last of the three buttons turns protection off. It is drawn like the other two rather than as damage, because that choice is free on any plan — and a control the app quietly discourages is not really free.
A crop of the shipped screen, not a device mockup.
All time
34%
96 of 282 times, you just put it down
A third of the time, people meet the wall and simply stop — no reps, no override, they just put it down. That is the truest sign the habit is changing, so it is the number the app leads with rather than something buried under a streak. It counts when the shield appears and no session starts within two minutes. No competitor tracks it.
Honest by design
Four promises the app keeps on screen, not in fine print. Each one is checkable in the binary, which is the only reason we are willing to print it here.
Motion and proximity sensors do the counting, so it works in bed, in the dark, in a hotel room, in public — no propping the phone up, no framing yourself, no warm-up. There is no camera code in the app and no camera permission to grant.
Lifetime is a single payment. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. Yearly and monthly exist if you prefer them, and there is no weekly plan — not now and not later.
Turning off all protection is free on any plan, including no plan, and takes effect immediately. There is no membership check anywhere on that path, which is why this is a structural promise rather than a policy.
No account, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDK — the app contains no networking code at all. We cannot even see which apps you put behind the wall: iOS hands us opaque tokens and we never resolve them.
What it costs
Lifetime
Pay once, never again
$34.99
Yearly
Renews every year · 7-day free trial
$24.99
Monthly
Renews monthly · 7-day free trial
$4.99
Prices shown are US App Store prices; the app shows yours in your own currency. Every plan covers every protected app, both exercises and future updates. Subscriptions are cancelled in the App Store, not here — and the seven-day trial is available once across both of them, so trialling monthly does not owe you a second trial on yearly.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later
FAQ
No. Reps are counted from your iPhone’s motion and proximity sensors, so it works in bed, in the dark, in a hotel room, in public. There is no camera code in the app and no camera permission to grant — which also means no propping the phone up and no framing yourself before you can start.
Squats and sit-ups. Hold the phone against your chest for both — that is what the counter was tuned against. Push-ups were built and then cut: the only sensor path was proximity, which needs your sternum within about five centimetres of the phone on the floor, and in device testing a real set never registered once. Rather than ship a movement that quietly fails, it was removed. If counting ever misses your set, a manual counting fallback in Settings opens the wall anyway.
The wall screen has a Fire Exit. There is a short deliberate delay before it enables, and then it lets you straight through with no questions and no reason required. Separately, turning off all protection is free on any plan — including no plan — and takes effect immediately. SweatWall cannot trap you, and that is structural rather than a courtesy: there is no membership check anywhere on that path.
You get three free unlocks to try it. After that: Lifetime is $34.99 as a single payment with nothing to renew and nothing to cancel, Yearly is $24.99, and Monthly is $4.99. There is no weekly plan and there never will be. Both subscriptions come with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. All three cover every protected app, both exercises and future updates.
Nothing. There is no account to make, no server of ours, and no networking code anywhere in the app — no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no attribution or advertising SDK, no third-party SDK of any kind. Your sessions, your rule and your history live on your device and are deleted with the app. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
No, and we could not find out. Apple’s Screen Time API hands the app opaque tokens rather than app names, and SweatWall never attempts to resolve them. Even we cannot tell what is behind your wall.
Yes. Counting, blocking, your history and your rule are all on-device, so SweatWall works in airplane mode. Only buying or restoring a membership needs a connection, because that goes through the App Store.
The share of the time the wall appeared and you simply put the phone down instead of doing the reps. It counts when no session starts within two minutes of the shield appearing, and Fire Exit is excluded from both sides of the ratio. Walking away is the best outcome in the product, not a failure, so it is the number the app leads with — and no competitor tracks it.
No. SweatWall is a self-control tool you point at yourself. It is not supervision and it is not designed to stop somebody else reaching their phone — anyone holding the phone can turn protection off for free.
iPhone on iOS 18 or later, portrait. There is no iPad or Mac version. Blocking depends on Apple’s Screen Time and Family Controls, so you grant Screen Time permission during setup.
No. SweatWall relies on Apple’s Screen Time and Family Controls to place the wall, and those are Apple’s systems — they can change or fail in ways outside our control, so we cannot promise the shield appears every single time. Pick the apps that eat your day, not the ones you would need in a hurry.
That is yours to judge. SweatWall is not a medical device and gives no medical advice. Setup asks about your knees and your lower back and drops an exercise that would not suit you — answer it honestly, and stop if something hurts. Turning protection off is free, and doing that is always better than pushing through pain. If you have an injury, a heart condition, are pregnant, or have any reason to be careful about exertion, talk to a doctor first.
Something not here? Support has the troubleshooting, and a person reads support@sweatwall.app.
