Pay for your screen time with something real.
AnteUp locks the app you keep reopening. To get it back, you put in the thing you'd rather have done — read, walk, focus, exercise, sleep. Twenty-five minutes in, twenty-five minutes out. No blocklist, no lecture, no streak to break.
Pick the prize
Choose the apps you actually want to earn — the feed, the streaming, the game. AnteUp reads your installed apps and locks only what you pick.
Name your price
What would you rather be doing? Read, walk, focus, exercise, sleep — or write your own. You set the exchange rate, not an algorithm.
Accept the ante
One clean trade, stated plainly before you start: what you put in, what you collect. Accept it and the clock runs.
Prove it, then collect
Prop up the phone and move — the camera counts the work. When the ante is paid, the app unlocks for exactly as long as you bought.
Four screens. No dashboard to learn.
1001 decisions. Nothing ever resets.
Most habit apps punish you for missing a day. AnteUp just counts the days you showed up, out of a thousand and one. Miss a Tuesday and the number waits for you — it only ever goes up.
Twenty-two badges mark the way there. None of them can be taken back.
“I didn't need an app to shame me. I needed one to charge me.”
Stop scrolling for free.
Set one ante tonight. Pay it once and you'll know within a day whether this is the thing that finally works.