Small quests. Real rewards.
The to do list app that makes showing up worth it
A to do list app lives or dies on one question: why would you open it tomorrow? BrainWin’s answer is blunt — because your favorite apps are locked until you do. Your daily tasks earn brain points, and points are the only currency the lock accepts.
Set up the routine once: the walk, the reading, the chores, the check-ins. Then let the economy run. Effort fills your balance every day, scrolling drains it, and consistency stops being a personality trait and starts being the obvious move.
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…you moved your body, read actual pages, called someone you love and went to bed on time — and felt proud of yourself every single day?
How it works
A transparent trade: effort in, screen time out.
Build your daily list
Pick recurring tasks from the library — movement, reading, tidying, journaling — or create your own with custom point values.
Check off, cash in
Every completed task tops up your brain points, day after day. Honest effort, instantly banked.
Spend points on screen time
Your distracting apps stay blocked until you pay the toll. Daily list done? Enjoy the scroll — guilt-free, you earned it.
See it in action
Straight from the app: your brain-coin balance, and the real-life tasks that fill it.
Why it actually works
Not magic — just behavioral science, applied with a sense of humor.
A reason to show up daily
Reminders nag; incentives pull. When today’s screen time depends on today’s tasks, your routine develops gravity.
No streak anxiety
Miss a day and nothing is lost forever — your apps simply wait, locked, until you pick the list back up. Firm, not cruel.
Your routine, your rules
You decide the tasks, their point values, and which apps sit behind the lock. BrainWin just enforces the deal you made with yourself.
The daily routine problem
Everyone owns a to do list app graveyard: the planner from January, the checklist app from March, the reminder stack you swipe away on sight. Daily tools die because day eleven arrives, novelty is gone, and the checklist pays nothing for being obeyed.
BrainWin gives the daily list a salary. Each completed task earns brain points, and points are the only key to the distracting apps it keeps blocked. Tomorrow you'll open the list for the same reason you open a paycheck — because it's worth something.
Design a day worth repeating
Start small: a walk, a glass of water before coffee, ten minutes of tidying, twenty pages. Give each task the point value it deserves in your economy — you set the prices. A good to do list isn't ambitious on paper; it's repeatable on a Tuesday.
BrainWin's built-in library covers movement, reading, chores, mindfulness and sleep, and custom tasks cover everything else — practice scales, water the plants, call your mother. If it's good for you and takes real effort, it can pay.
Consistency without streak anxiety
Streaks are a loan shark: miss one payment and they burn your whole history down. BrainWin deliberately has none. A skipped day costs you exactly one day of earnings — your record isn't ruined, your apps are just still locked when you come back.
That forgiveness is what makes the system durable. The to do list that survives holidays, sick days and deadline weeks is the one still working in June. Firm about the deal, relaxed about the calendar.
Evenings, refunded
Run the loop for a month and look at the ledger: walks taken, chapters read, rooms cleaned, water actually drunk — and the scrolling compressed into earned, guilt-free windows instead of leaking across the whole evening.
That's the real product of a working to do list app: not the checklist, the refund. The two hours that used to vanish into the feed come back as the parts of the day you'd actually want to remember. BrainWin just makes the trade explicit — and then holds you to it, kindly.
How a day with BrainWin looks
Built with the people who use it
Every feature request in the app is read, tagged and answered by us. Post an idea, upvote what matters, and watch it move from in review to planned to done.
Questions, answered
How does BrainWin work as a to do list app?+
You define daily tasks with point values. Completing them earns brain points, and points unlock the distracting apps BrainWin keeps blocked. The daily loop funds your screen time.
What if my routine changes?+
Edit tasks, point values and blocked apps anytime. The system bends to your week — the incentive structure stays.
Does it nag me with notifications?+
BrainWin doesn’t need to nag. The locked apps are the reminder — a much more persuasive one than a push notification you’d swipe away.
Is BrainWin available on Android?+
iPhone first. BrainWin is built on iOS-only screen-time APIs, so an Android version is a bigger project. Tell us you want it on the in-app feature board and vote it up.
Can I set different tasks for different days?+
Yes — your task list is fully editable, so a training-day list and a rest-day list can coexist. Point values keep the economy fair across both.
What's a good first daily routine?+
A classic starter: water before coffee (20 points), a 15-minute walk (60), twenty pages (80), phone out of the bedroom (40). Enough to fund an evening of earned scrolling and short enough to survive a busy day.
Does it sync with my calendar or other to do list tools?+
BrainWin stays deliberately standalone and on-device — no calendar permissions, no account, no cloud sync. The daily list lives next to the thing it controls: your screen time.
How much does BrainWin cost?+
BrainWin is free to download with a Pro subscription for unlimited blocking, and yearly plans work out to well under a coffee per month. Check the app for current pricing — and compare it against what two reclaimed hours a day are worth to you.
Does BrainWin drain my battery?+
No. Blocking runs through Apple’s Screen Time framework at the system level — there is no VPN tunnel, no background traffic filtering, and no always-on process burning battery in the background.
Ready to unrot your routine?
Your feed will still be there. The question is whether you will be.