Earn with a workout

Lock Instagram
until you've
worked out.

Tonic, an iPhone app, keeps Instagram, TikTok or any app you pick locked until today's workout is saved to Apple Health, from Strava, Nike Run Club, Peloton, Hevy, the Apple Watch, or any app you train with. Finish, and it unlocks them on its own.

Hevy
Work out 20 min today
saved to Apple Health from any app
12 of 20 min
then they open: Instagram TikTok
Strava
Or bank it for later
1 min of workout → 1 min of reward time
45 min banked
45 min workout today

How should a workout count?

A minute goal

Ask for twenty minutes. Short sessions add up: a twelve and a ten make twenty-two.

Hevy 20 min → Apps open all day

Any finished workout

Whatever you finish today counts, so ten minutes on a bad day is enough.

Nike Run Club 10 min → Apps open all day

Any brisk minute

Apple Watch

Any minute at brisk-walk pace or harder counts, Start button or not. The walk to the bus counts too.

⌚ 20 min → Apps open all day

Or bank the minutes for rest days

Earn & spend

Each minute you train becomes scroll time at the rate you set, from three minutes per minute trained down to a third. Let the balance roll over and Sunday's long ride still covers Monday, or have it clear every morning or every Monday.

Strava 45 min workout → 45 min banked

A lunchtime lift already counts.

The lock asks "Have you worked out?" Tap it and Tonic checks Apple Health on the spot, so a session that already saved opens Instagram right there. If nothing has saved, it stays locked: the button is a check, not a way in.

Movement before screens

Have you worked out?
Please let me in

Where the session comes from.

A workout counts from whichever app or watch saved it. Tonic reads the entry, never the device.

iPhone, no watch

Every workout you start in an app that shares with Apple Health counts in full, whatever the type. Only brisk minutes are missing, because they come from a Watch.

Apple Watch

A workout started on the wrist saves by itself. The Watch also notices brisk minutes, with no Start button. A phone-app workout still counts on a day the Watch stayed in the drawer.

Garmin Connect

Garmin

Garmin Connect can share with Apple Health once you turn it on (More, Settings, Connected Apps, Apple Health). The session shows up after the app syncs; if you are waiting on one, opening Garmin Connect usually does it within a minute or two.

Google Health (Fitbit)

Fitbit (now the Google Health app)

With sharing on, the Google Health app writes each session to Apple Health on its next sync, a change that came with its August 2026 update.

WHOOP

Whoop

If Whoop shares a workout to Apple Health, it counts here. If it does not, start the session in a phone app that saves to Health.

Oura

Oura

A sleep and readiness ring with limited workout sharing, so the surer route is a phone app that saves to Health.

iPad

An iPad has no Watch or iPhone of its own feeding it; sessions from yours arrive through iCloud once the Health app has been opened there.

Nothing to log

You never open Tonic to unlock.

The app you already use saves each workout to Apple Health, and Tonic reads it from there. A workout started on the Watch saves itself, with next to nothing to switch on.

No check-ins, no proof photos. Finish the workout in Hevy or on the Watch. Apple Health has it, and Tonic reads it there.
Unlocks from the background. Usually within a minute of the save, with nothing to tap in Tonic.
Any fitness app that saves to Apple Health. Strava, Peloton, Strong, Nike Run Club, the Watch's Workout app. Nothing new to install.

Reads workouts from

Strava Nike Run Club Peloton Hevy Strong Apple Fitness

and any app that saves workouts to Apple Health

Apple Health Apple Health
Workout done. Instagram is unlocked. You earned it. now

Once: turn on Apple Health sharing in the app you train with (tracker apps like Garmin and Fitbit keep it off until you do), then allow Workouts under Read for Tonic. Watch workouts are already in Health; they only need the Read switch.

Setups people use for workouts.

"I’ve seen my wasted screen time plummet in the past few weeks and my consistency with healthy habits increasing." App Store review, July 2026

Quick answers

Does it work with Strava, Hevy, Strong or Nike Run Club?

Yes, and with any app that saves workouts to Apple Health, the Apple Watch's own Workout app included. Make sure the app's Apple Health sharing is on and allow Tonic to read Workouts. Tonic reads the saved workout, so a session counts once you finish it and it saves.

Do I need an Apple Watch?

No. A workout saved from any app on your iPhone counts. An Apple Watch adds a second way to count: minutes at brisk-walk pace or harder, whether or not you pressed Start.

Does a walk, yoga or a physio session count?

Yes, if you start it as a workout and it saves to Apple Health, whatever the type. A slow stretch counts by its full minutes, the same as a hard session, and no reps are counted.

What happens on rest days?

On a daily rule the apps stay locked until you train, so give rest days a way through. Bank the minutes with the balance set to roll over, and a long session covers the day after it. Or give the same rule a second way to earn, like 6,000 steps, so either one opens the apps.

Why didn't my workout unlock my apps?

Usually the session never saved: it was not ended in the app, or the app's Apple Health sharing is off. If you train with a tracker such as Garmin, opening its app usually pushes the latest session across within a minute or two. Then check that Tonic may read Workouts, in iPhone Settings, Health, Data Access & Devices, Tonic, under Read rather than Write.

What does it cost?

Free to start: lock two apps and earn from one source, workouts included, for as long as you like. Tonic Unlimited lifts the limits on apps and ways to earn, for $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month, with the first 7 days free.

Workout not counting? The checks, in order → · Which watches and trackers work

Checked against the app on November 1, 2026.

Start with two apps and today's workout.

Get Tonic free
Free to start · no account needed · iPhone and iPad, iOS 17.4 or later

Tonic is an independent companion and isn't affiliated with Apple, Strava, Nike, Peloton, Hevy, Strong, Garmin, Google, Fitbit, Oura or Whoop.

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