An iPhone app blocker that lets you earn screen time.
Achieve helps you put productive activities before distracting apps. Choose the apps you want to limit, set earning rules, and earn screen time through goals, workouts, steps, or focus sessions. Achieve tracks your available earned time so you can plan when to use it.
What is Achieve?
Achieve is a goal-based iPhone app blocker and screen time reward app. It uses the permissions and rules you configure to help make progress come before selected distractions.
Choose the distracting apps, categories, and websites you want to restrict with Apple Screen Time permissions.
Earned time is tracked as an available balance so you can plan a break after productive activity.
Achieve is free to download with in-app purchases and is published by Golden Labs LLC.
How blocking and rewards work
Achieve uses Apple Screen Time permissions to apply restrictions to the apps, categories, and websites you select. Your chosen activities contribute to your earned-time balance. Choose a small set of distractions first, then check your settings and balance before relying on the block for a work or study session.
What earns time?
Workouts and steps can be read from Apple Health when you grant permission and compatible activity data is available. Custom tasks use a completion control in Achieve, so checking off a chore does not independently verify that it happened. Completed focus sessions also earn screen time using the reward shown in the app.
A routine to try
Choose a distracting social app, set a manageable productive goal, complete that activity, and check your earned balance before taking a planned break. Start with one rule so you can see whether it fits your day, while keeping essential communication and study tools available.
A look at recorded distracting-app use
In a September 2026 analysis, 84 qualifying new accounts averaged about 101 minutes a day on selected distracting apps during their first week after baseline capture—74% below their onboarding estimates of daily phone use. This comparison is not a measure of total-phone time saved.
Read the first-week results and method →Pricing and availability
Achieve is free to download with in-app purchases. Check the current App Store listing and the purchase screen in the app for available plans, prices, and terms before purchasing. The iPhone listing requires iOS 17.4 or later. This page describes the iPhone workflow; availability on another platform does not establish identical features.
Permissions and limitations
App blocking depends on Screen Time authorization and the selections you configure. Workout and step rewards depend on Health access and activity data reaching the app. Custom task completion relies on your input. Achieve is a productivity tool, not a guarantee that every route to distracting content is blocked or that phone use will decrease by a particular amount. If earned time or blocking does not behave as expected, use the help center to check setup and permissions.
Is Achieve a medical or therapy product?
No. Achieve is a productivity and behavior-design app. It is not a medical device, therapy product, or surveillance tool. It helps users create clearer rules for screen time and focus.