Block betting apps, social media, shopping and food delivery until you have paid yourself first.
Download for iPhoneHow it works
The block is not a punishment. It is a gate that opens when you have paid yourself instead, and closes again on the 1st. Step through it.
Choose what to shield
Screen Time shields them. Amblee cannot see the list.
Illustration with sample numbers.
What it blocks
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X. Pick them in Apple’s Screen Time picker with the shopping, delivery and betting apps, and they stay shut until this month’s deposit into your own account clears.
Tick it in Apple’s Screen Time picker and new installs are covered too. Apple decides which apps sit in it, and ticking it covers every one of them, messaging apps included if Apple files them there. To leave one out, pick the apps one by one instead.
Screen Time shields the app itself, messages and all. Leave out anything you need for work.
On iPhone, when you pick the apps during setup, a switch called “Block their websites too” adds Amblee’s own list of sites for the habits you picked to your blocklist, so Safari blocks those as well. It is off unless you turn it on, and you can add any site yourself later.
No timers, schedules or daily limits. Once this month’s deposit clears, the apps open until the 1st. Money-wise, they lock sooner only if counted money leaves within 72 hours of the unlock, or you delete a screenshot that counted, and that takes you back under the goal.
Also on the list
Amazon, Temu, Shein, TikTok Shop
Pick the apps you shop in.
DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart
Pick the apps you order from.
Coins, gems, passes, upgrades
Pick the games and apps you buy in.
DraftKings, FanDuel, Kalshi, Polymarket, casinos
Apple’s picker has no betting category, so pick these one by one.
Betting
The newest apps do not call themselves sportsbooks. The money leaves the same way, and a market is still a bet.
of US betting-app installs went to Kalshi and Polymarket, June 1 to 15, 2026. DraftKings took 13.7%, FanDuel 8.9%.
Apptopia, June 17 2026a month traded on Kalshi and Polymarket combined by April 2026, up from under $5B in September 2025. Legal US sportsbooks took roughly $14B a month in 2025.
Pew Research Center, May 27 2026of US adults hold an active online sportsbook account. Among men 18 to 49, it is 52%.
Siena College Research Institute, Feb 2026The math
Take what a month of bets, impulse buys or takeout costs and move it into your own account instead. This is what you will have put in. What it earns after that is between you and your bank or broker.
$250 a month is $3,000 a year.
Illustrative, at $250 a month. Deposits only: your own money, multiplied out. Amblee does not grow it and makes no claim about what it earns.
Trust
Amblee can see that money moved. It can never move it.
Bank connections go through Plaid and are read-only. Amblee sees that a deposit cleared. There is no balance to hold, no transfer to authorise, and no card in the middle.
Amblee never holds, moves, or invests your money. The deposit goes into your own account, at your own bank or brokerage. Amblee only confirms it landed.
If you log a deposit from a screenshot, the image is read on your device and never leaves it. Only the amount is sent. And iOS never tells us which apps you chose.
Pick the apps, set one number, show the money moved. The apps open when you have paid yourself first.
Download for iPhone