Kill Doomscrolling
Take steps to a better life.
Stepsie shields your distracting apps until you have earned them back. Walks, workouts and the habits you keep all pay real minutes of screen time. Spend them whenever you want.
Free on iOS · One earning curve, published, the same for everyone
1,500 steps to +4 min
Time given back
0
hours of screen time earned on foot
That's 6 full days, or 395 22-minute episodes never watched.
Every one of them banked by walking, not by willpower.
Live from the Stepsie community · updated hourly
The problem
Willpower is a terrible app blocker.
If quitting the scroll were as easy as a pop-up, you'd have done it already. Every screen-time app ships the same fatal flaw: an ignore button.
Time Limit Reached
You've hit your 30 minutes today.
Dismissible warnings don't build boundaries. They build a dismissing habit. The limit becomes a speed bump you stop feeling.
Vault Locked
Earn five minutes to open it.
1,163 / 1,875 steps · earns +5 min
No ignore button. Just your legs. The impulsive check-in becomes a lap around the block. The constraint is physical, so it actually holds.
Features
One day, eight things working for you.
The vault
6 apps freePick the apps that eat your day. They stay shielded until you spend earned time on them. Six apps free, unlimited on Premium.
One published curve
Same for everyone5,000 steps is 13.5 minutes. 10,000 is 27. The whole table is printed inside the app, so you can predict your own payout exactly. Workouts that are not walking earn on their own scale beside it.
Habits that pay
3 freeWater, sleep, mindfulness, reading, whatever you are building. Finish your set and it earns minutes toward the same goal a walk does. Three free, unlimited on Premium.
The carry bank
Holds a full dayUnspent time rolls over. Today's earnings go first, then the bank, so a long walk on Tuesday is still there on Saturday. At the 24-hour ceiling you can turn a full unspent day into a permanent Level on your profile.
Missing the goal costs
2× until you catch upMiss your daily goal and vault time charges double until you catch up. Hit it again and the difference comes back.
Protection, not punishment
Shields and freezesA Streak Shield arms the night before and saves the day you miss. Freeze pauses usage tracking for 90 minutes. Rest days soften the goal instead of breaking the chain.
Focus Schedules
1 freeNamed recurring windows that shut the vault no matter how much you have earned: bedtime, work hours, dinner. Enforced by the system, whether or not Stepsie is running.
A way out, always
3 a monthEmergency Access drops every shield for an hour, three times a month, with no streak damage and no argument.
Works with no signal
Signup onlyCreating your account needs a connection once. After that Stepsie keeps earning, spending, shielding and counting your streak with no service at all — a weekend off-grid costs you nothing, and everything you walked syncs the moment you are back.
How it works
A loop your brain actually likes.
steps, counted automatically
Take steps
Walks, workouts, and the daily habits you keep. HealthKit counts the movement automatically; the habits are two taps. All three earn the same kind of minute.
earned today, yours to spend
Earn
One published curve turns what you did into minutes: 5,000 steps is 13.5, 10,000 is 27, and it is the same table for everyone. Unspent minutes roll over. Nothing resets at midnight.
spend it on purpose
Unlock
Ready to scroll? Open a session and your vault apps unshield. Time only burns while you're actually inside them.
Your daily goal is earned minutes, not distance. Hit it and a flat 10-minute bonus lands on top. Start the morning on your feet for another 5. The economy is simple, published, and always on your side.
Made for you
Two kinds of people love Stepsie.
Usually for different reasons. Often both at once.
Walking Warrior
You don't hate your phone. You hate losing an hour to it and feeling worse after. Stepsie flips the trade: the urge to check becomes a reason to move. Cravings turn into laps around the block, and 8,000 steps start happening by accident.
- ✓ Less screen time without white-knuckling it
- ✓ More daylight, more steps, better sleep
- ✓ Guilt-free scrolling: you literally earned it
ADHD & Neuro-spicy
For ADHD and neurodivergent brains, "just use it less" is useless advice. Stepsie is an external executive function: it interrupts the impulse loop with a body-first pattern break, and movement happens to be one of the best dopamine regulators there is.
- ✓ The impulse check-in hits a real gate, not a nag
- ✓ Reward up front: morning bonus, visible progress
- ✓ Never punitive: shields and repairs, not shame
Real numbers, not vibes
Early days. Real steps.
Our first walkers are already proving the loop works. Every step below is real. Add yours and watch these numbers grow.
0
steps walked together
every one traded doomscrolling for daylight
0 km
walked to unlock
instead of thumbed through feeds
0
walkers so far
the first people trading scrolls for steps
Live totals from the Stepsie community · updated hourly
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