Earn with meditation

Lock Instagram
until you've
meditated.

Tonic keeps Instagram, TikTok or any app you choose locked until today's session is done in Headspace, Calm or any meditation app that shares with Apple Health. It reads the finished session from there and unlocks your apps on its own, so your phone can stay face down.

Headspace
Meditate 10 min today
a finished session, read from Apple Health
5 of 10 min
then they open: Instagram TikTok
Calm
Or bank the minutes
1 min meditated → 2 min of reward time
24 min banked
12 min meditated today

One sit a day, or minutes in the bank.

Either way, you meditate before you scroll.

Hit your daily goal

Meditate first

Pick the length. When that session saves to Apple Health, Instagram and TikTok open and stay open until 5 AM, or whatever time you set your day to roll over. The next morning starts locked again.

Headspace A 10 min session → Apps open all day

Build a balance

Earn & spend

Ten minutes of meditation can bank ten minutes of TikTok, or twenty, or three. You set the rate, as generous as three minutes for each minute you meditate or as tight as one minute for every three. If your balance rolls over, a long sit on your day off is still there for Tuesday's commute. It can also clear each morning or each Monday.

Calm 10 min session → 20 min banked

Locked can mean a pause you tap through, 15 taps by default, or no way in until you've meditated.

The lock asks one question.

"Have you meditated?" Tap it and Tonic checks Apple Health right then, and it opens your apps only if today's session is there. If you're short, the line above it changes to "0 of 10 min recorded, keep going".

Stillness before noise

Have you meditated?
Not yet

Nothing to log

You never open Tonic to unlock.

Screen Time counts nothing with the screen off, so Tonic reads the finished session from Apple Health instead. The lock lifts usually within a minute of it saving.

Reads sessions from

Headspace Calm Waking Up Insight Timer Ten Percent Happier Balance

and any meditation app that shares with Apple Health

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

One switch to turn on first. Most meditation apps keep Apple Health sharing off until you switch it on in their settings, so do that, then finish one session. When Tonic asks for Apple Health access, allow meditation under Read.

Other ways to run it.

"This app has really helped reduce my screen time while helping increase meditation and water intake" App Store review, September 2026

Quick answers

Does Headspace, Calm or Insight Timer count?

Yes, once the app's Apple Health sharing is on. The same goes for Waking Up, Ten Percent Happier, Balance or any meditation app that saves its sessions to Apple Health. Not sure about yours? Finish a session and look for it in the Health app.

My session didn't unlock anything. Why?

Tap "Have you meditated?" on the lock first: iOS can run late, and that button reads Apple Health right then. If it finds nothing, the app's sharing is probably off, or Tonic isn't allowed to read meditation. Check iPhone Settings, Health, Data Access & Devices, Tonic.

What if I stop a session early?

It may not count, because a session counts once you complete it. If you did meditate and Apple Health missed it, add the minutes yourself from the rule in Tonic. They count right away.

I meditate with YouTube or no app at all. Does it count?

Not on its own: the session has to come from a meditation app that shares with Apple Health. You can add the minutes yourself in Tonic afterwards, or use any meditation timer that shares with Apple Health.

Do I need an Apple Watch?

No. The session comes from the meditation app on your phone.

What does it cost?

Free to start: lock two apps and earn from one source, meditation included, for as long as you like. Tonic Unlimited lifts the limits on apps and ways to earn, for $39.99 a year or $9.99 a month, with the first 7 days free.

Session not counting? Turn on sharing, then read access →

Checked against the app on November 1, 2026.

Start with two apps and one session.

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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, Headspace, Calm, Waking Up, Insight Timer, Ten Percent Happier or Balance.

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