iOS + Android — Free to download

The distance between
doomscrolling
and your goals
is 5,000 steps.

Social Limits blocks Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok until you've earned your screen time with a walk. No willpower required. Just a step goal.

You don't break bad habits.
You replace them.

Move More. Scroll Less.
15K Downloads in under 5 months
100+ Countries reached
Top 50 Apple Productivity Apps
5K Steps to unlock your apps

No locking. No punishing.
Just earning it.

01

Set your step goal

Choose how many steps you need to walk before your blocked apps unlock. 2,000. 5,000. 10,000. You decide.

02

Apps lock at midnight

Every day, your social media apps become inaccessible. Instagram, Twitter, TikTok — gone until you've moved.

03

Walk to unlock

Your phone counts your steps. Hit your goal and your apps unlock — not a moment sooner. The reward only exists if you earned it.

04

Repeat until it sticks

Most mornings, you won't even check your phone. It'll just be off. And that's fine. That's the point.

"You don't break bad habits.
You replace them."

Every productivity app tries to stop you from doing something. Social Limits does something different: it creates a cost for the behavior you don't want, and a reward for the behavior you do.

Walking 5,000 steps before opening Instagram is not a punishment. It's a trade. A good trade. And once your body gets used to moving in the morning, the apps become the reward, not the default.

2.5h Average daily social media use per adult
5K Steps = ~30–40 minutes of walking. Your morning is back.
What you get

Real App Blocking

Blocks Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at the system level — not a gentle reminder, but actual denial of access.

Daily Step Goals

Set a daily step threshold. When you hit it, your apps unlock. Miss it — and your phone stays the way it should be: just a phone.

Midnight Auto-Lock

Apps lock automatically every night. You don't have to remember to activate it — it just happens.

iOS & Android

Available on iPhone and Android. One step goal, synced across your day.

Progress Tracking

See your step history, unlock streaks, and how your screen time has changed over time.

Thousands of Users

Medical students, executives, creatives — people who've tried everything and found their fix.

Your morning doesn't belong to an algorithm. It belongs to you.

Download Social Limits. Walk 5,000 steps. Earn your screen time back.