Group the apps you want to use less. Each group gets a battery that drains as you use it and recharges while you’re away. Not a blocker — a budget.
Free for iPhone · iOS 17 or later
Batteries
32 min left · recharging
In use · draining
Shielded 🔒 · full in 2h 10m
Pick the apps you want to use less — social, games, video — and choose a preset: Saver, Standard or Extended.
Open one of those apps and its battery starts draining. Warnings give you a nudge before you run low.
Time away refills the battery. Hit 0% and the apps shield until it recovers — or use your emergency unlock.
Everything is built around one idea: a limit you can feel filling and emptying is one you’ll actually keep.
Give each group of apps its own battery, size and recharge speed. Start from a preset and tune from there.
When a battery empties, its apps shield using Apple’s Screen Time. Start again when you’ve recharged.
Need in anyway? Take it — at a cost you set, like a short countdown. A speed bump, not a wall.
Lock or fast-drain a battery at certain times, and take a day off when you need one.
See your battery on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and start a session right from the shield.
Streaks, goal-vs-actual and a yearly Wrap, built from your own sessions — nothing else.
Let one friend know when you run out or take an emergency unlock. Optional, and only if you set it up.
iOS never tells Recharge which apps you picked. No ads, no trackers, no selling data.
Shielding an app stops its audio. Podcast mode lets your chosen apps play, on your terms.
Recharge is free with one battery. Recharge Plus adds unlimited batteries, tuning, widgets & Live Activities, Podcast mode, Days off and themes.
No — it’s a budget. A blocker says no all day. Recharge gives each group of apps an amount of use and lets you spend it however you like. Only when a battery hits 0% do its apps shield, until you recharge by staying away or use your emergency unlock.
No. iOS never tells Recharge the names of the apps you pick — it only hands over a sealed token we can’t open. We don’t track you, run ads, or sell data. Read the Privacy Policy.
Recharge is free to start with one battery. Recharge Plus is an optional subscription that adds unlimited batteries, tuning, widgets and Live Activities, Podcast mode, Days off and more. The price is shown in the app before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time in your App Store subscriptions.
Yes. Every shield has an emergency unlock. You choose what it costs — a short countdown, for instance — so it’s a speed bump, not a wall.
An iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Recharge uses Apple’s Screen Time technology, so you’ll be asked to grant that permission the first time.
Your batteries, schedules and history sync when you sign in with Apple. The list of apps in a battery can’t sync — iOS keeps that selection private to each device — so you pick them once per device.
Something else? Visit support.
Free to start. Takes about two minutes to set up.
Get Recharge on the App Store