Produce, then consume
Kinase shields the apps you lose hours to. To open them, you record thirty seconds of yourself making something — and, if you want, walk, train, or get outside first.
Other blockers take something away.
Kinase makes you build something first.
The loop
Three steps, every day, in order.
Choose what stays shut
Pick the apps and categories you lose time to. Kinase holds them behind Apple's Screen Time shield on your own device.
Do the work you set
Record a video. Walk a distance. Log a workout. Get time in daylight. You choose the conditions, and how many.
The shield lifts itself
Finish the last condition and your apps open — no button, no negotiation — until the re-lock time you set. Sunset, by default.
Zeitgebers
The conditions are yours to set.
A Zeitgeber is anything that sets your body's clock. In Kinase it's anything that earns your phone back. Stack them in stages, in any order.
- Create
- Record 15 to 60 seconds, checked on device
- Daylight
- Minutes outside, read from Apple Health
- Walk
- Distance in miles
- Steps
- A daily count
- Workout
- Any type, or one you name
- Exercise
- Minutes, ring or logged
- Presets
- Creator Mode · Morning Protocol · Earn It · Weatherproof · Monk Mode
No Apple Watch? Every condition can be logged by hand, and Kinase writes it into Apple Health so your own record stays true.
The instrument
A camera worth the thirty seconds.
The toll shouldn't produce footage you'd delete. Kinase ships a real camera, so the thing you make each morning is worth keeping.
- Exposure
- Tap to focus · long-press for AE/AF lock
- Frame rate
- 24 · 30 · 60 fps
- Capture
- 4K HEVC, front or rear
- Lenses
- 0.5× · 1× · 2×
- Framing
- Rule-of-thirds grid, 3-second countdown
- Script
- Teleprompter with read-time estimate
- Prompts
- 250, across ten kinds of thinking
- Length
- Keep rolling past the minimum
The Vault
A year of this and you have three hundred and sixty-five of them.
Every recording is kept on your device, in order. Restriction leaves you with a year of not-scrolling. Kinase leaves you with a body of work — and nothing you make ever leaves your phone.
Pricing
Founding price, for the people who show up early.
Then $79 a year. Save 50% for year one.
- Every condition and preset
- The full camera and Vault
- Weekly schedules and saved recipes
- Locked in as long as you stay subscribed
7 days free, then $9.99 a month.
- Everything in Kinase
- Cancel any time in Settings
Subscriptions are billed through the App Store. Prices in USD.
Coming to iPhone
Be there the day it opens.
One email when Kinase launches. Nothing else, ever.