RiddleLock

Now RiddleLock: same app, new name, and a riddle-first rebuild. 136 riddles across five challenge types stand between you and the apps that eat your day

Your phone is not the problem. The habit is.

RiddleLock puts a challenge between you and the apps that eat your day. Reach for the one you always reach for, and RiddleLock asks you to earn it. Solve a riddle, and it opens.

It is not a wall. It is a speed bump with a puzzle on it — long enough to notice you picked up your phone without deciding to.

WHAT YOU SOLVE • Riddles — 136 of them, written around screen habits, social media, shopping, gambling and gaming • Trivia — attention, habit and psychology • Number sequences — find the pattern • Word unscramble • Pattern memory

Miss three times and RiddleLock shows you the answer before handing you a fresh challenge. You are never stuck out of your own phone.

Answers are forgiving. Typos, plurals and reasonable synonyms all count — you are being slowed down, not spelling-tested.

HOW IT WORKS • Choose which apps deserve friction. Everything else opens normally. • Clear a challenge and that app unlocks for a set window — not everything at once. • Each app re-locks on its own schedule, even if RiddleLock is closed. • A Live Activity counts down your remaining time. • One-tap reopen takes you back to the app you just unlocked, for supported apps.

HARD MODE Two challenges instead of one, both at the hardest setting. For the app you genuinely cannot leave alone.

WHAT YOU SEE • A focus score, and how many times you stopped yourself today • Time reclaimed • A weekly chart built only from days actually recorded — no invented numbers • Streaks and milestones

ONE-TIME PURCHASE Buy it once. No subscription.

PRIVACY Your blocked-app selection, your stats and your history stay on your device. RiddleLock uses Apple's Screen Time to do the blocking and asks your permission before it can.