HATANO

NOW ON THE APP STORE

Move first.
Scroll later.

Hatano shields the apps that eat your day until your body has done something real. Hit your step goal and the shield lifts itself — no willpower negotiation, no settings to fiddle with.

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10,000
STEPS, THE ORIGINAL GOAL
2 / day
SOS PASSES, THAT'S ALL
0
DATA LEAVES YOUR PHONE

App blockers fail for one reason.

They punish you and give nothing back. A timer runs out, you tap "15 more minutes," and the only thing you've built is a habit of overriding yourself.

Hatano trades instead of punishes. The cost of the feed is a walk — and the walk is the point.

HOW IT WORKS

Three taps, then never again.

Setup takes under a minute. After that Hatano runs on your steps, not your discipline.

1

Pick your distractions

Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit — whole categories if you'd rather. They stay shielded until the goal lands.

2

Name your price

A step count or any logged workout. Start at 2,000 and climb toward the number Hatano is named for.

3

Walk. It opens itself.

Apple Health tells Hatano the moment you're there. The shield lifts for the rest of the day, or a four-hour window — your call.

THE SOS RULE

An escape hatch that costs something.

Sometimes you genuinely need in. So Hatano gives you two five-minute passes a day — but you earn each one by beating a challenge that breaks the autopilot first.

  • Steady Hold

    Hold the ring ten seconds. Let go and it resets.

    PATIENCE

  • Math Sprint

    Five answers in thirty seconds. One miss restarts it.

    FOCUS

  • Pattern Recall

    Watch the tiles, repeat them back. Three rounds.

    ATTENTION

Pick yours in Settings. Passes don't roll over, and they never replace the goal.

ALWAYS IN VIEW

Your number, before your feed.

Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets put the gap between you and access where you'll actually see it — which is usually enough.

STREAK
12days earned
SHIELD
Active
3 apps waiting on you

Private by construction

  • Steps are read on-device through Apple Health. Nothing is uploaded.
  • Screen Time access can't tell us which apps you chose — Apple keeps that opaque.
  • No account, no feed, no leaderboard. One number, one shield.

WHY 10,000

Named after the man who gave us the number.

In 1960s Japan, Dr. Yoshiro Hatano studied how much walking it took to stay healthy and landed on ten thousand steps a day. The pedometers that followed were called manpo-kei — the ten-thousand-step meter — and the number outlived the device, the decade, and the country it came from.

Sixty years later it's still the bar. Hatano just makes your phone respect it.

Fair questions.

Can't I just delete Hatano?

You can. Every blocker on iOS can be uninstalled — that's the platform, not a flaw. What Hatano changes is the price of the impulse: deleting an app is a decision, and decisions are exactly what autopilot can't make.

What if I'm sick, or it's pouring?

Drop your goal for the day — it's two taps and no shame. Any workout logged in Apple Health counts too, so a home session or a swim earns the same unlock as a walk.

Does it drain the battery?

No. Steps come from the motion coprocessor your iPhone already counts with, and shielding is handled by iOS itself. Hatano wakes up, reads a number, and goes back to sleep.

Which apps can it shield?

Anything you can pick in Apple's own app picker, individually or by category. Calls, messages, maps and anything you leave unselected are never touched.

PRICING

Cheaper than the hours.

One purchase, every feature — shield, goals, SOS challenges, widgets. No tiers, no upsells inside the app.

WEEKLY

$4.99/ week

Try the trade for a week. Cancel the moment it stops working for you.

Start weekly

ANNUAL

MOST PICK THIS

$59.99/ year

About $1.15 a week — roughly a year of walks for the price of a month of takeaway coffee.

Go annual

LIFETIME

$149.99once

Pay once, keep it. Pays for itself in year three and never renews.

Buy lifetime

Prices in USD. Subscriptions renew until cancelled; manage them any time in your Apple ID settings.

Ten thousand steps.
Then scroll.

On the App Store now — $4.99 a week, or $59.99 for the year. Set it up once, and let your steps do the arguing.

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