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Your alarm goes off and the social apps lock. They stay locked until you have hit your step count.
Available now on iPhone.
It goes off, you turn it off, and then forty minutes disappear into a feed while you are still horizontal.
Deciding to go outside is easy at night and impossible in the dark. Gate makes the decision the night before.
A timer you can dismiss is a suggestion. Gate opens for one thing: the walk you meant to take.
Choose which apps close with the alarm. Instagram, TikTok, whatever the morning usually takes.
Open one and you get a quiet screen instead of a feed, with your step count on it. No red, no lecture.
Walk. The ring fills as you go. When you hit the count you set, the apps open on their own and the light arrives with them.
Four surfaces, one job.
6:30The alarm rings dim, and the apps you picked close with it.
The shieldWhat you see when you open Instagram before the walk.
Before the alarmTonight's gate, set and waiting.
Done for todayThe ring closes, the apps open on their own.
Gate reads step counts through Apple Health and locks apps through Screen Time. Both run on the device. Nothing about your walks, your apps, or your mornings is sent to a server, because there is no server. No account, no email required, no analytics on your movement.
Yes. Gate is a gate, not a cage. There is a way past every lock and you can turn the whole thing off in settings. It works because it puts a pause between you and the feed, not because it traps you.
Steps counted after your alarm, from Apple Health. Treadmill steps count too if that is the morning you have. The 2,000 is a default you can move up or down.
No. Step counting is handled by the phone's motion coprocessor, which is already running.
Anything Screen Time can see, which is nearly everything. Most people pick two or three.