Read the news to unlock your apps.
Jinyus holds back the apps you open without thinking. Read one story, answer a few questions about what you actually read, and they open.
Requires iOS 26.5 or later · Free, no ads, no accounts
Jinyus holds back the apps you open without thinking. Read one story, answer a few questions about what you actually read, and they open.
Requires iOS 26.5 or later · Free, no ads, no accounts
Open a locked app and Jinyus offers the day’s news instead, filtered to the topics you follow. The questions sit at the foot of the article, so you scroll past every paragraph to reach them.
Multiple choice and typed answers, drawn from the article’s own details. A wrong answer doesn’t advance — you go back and look. Typed answers are marked forgivingly, so a typo or a missing capital still counts.
Save stories into folders you name yourself. Link one to a subject or concept from class with a note, and find it again when you need it.
The details that decide whether something like this survives past the first week.
Anything from 15 minutes to 8 hours in quarter-hour steps — 3½ hours is a real setting — or the rest of the day, or until a time you choose.
Switching locking off asks you to confirm, waits fifteen seconds, then stays off for only five minutes. It is meant to be harder than reading.
Choose from world news, politics, business, science, culture and more. Change them whenever you like and the next day’s stories follow.
Five typographic themes and four typefaces, mixed however you like, with article text at whatever size you actually read comfortably.
Privacy policy — last updated September 2026
Jinyus has no accounts and no servers. Everything you do in the app — the stories you save, the folders you make, the notes you write, the topics you choose — stays on your iPhone. Nothing is collected, and nothing is sold.
Deleting the app removes all of it permanently. There is no copy anywhere else.
Jinyus uses Apple’s Family Controls framework to block apps. By Apple’s design, the app never learns which apps you picked — iOS gives it only anonymous tokens that mean nothing outside your device. Jinyus cannot see your app usage or your screen time. You can withdraw permission at any time in Settings › Screen Time › Apps with Screen Time Access, which stops all blocking immediately.
Jinyus makes one kind of network request: fetching news articles. Those requests contain no personal information, no device identifier and no account. The publisher cannot tell one Jinyus reader from another.
When you share an article, Jinyus hands a link to Apple’s standard share sheet. Where it goes from there is your choice, and it is handled by that app. Jinyus keeps no record of what you shared or with whom.
Jinyus is designed for people managing their own device. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, because it does not collect personal information at all.
If this policy changes, the updated version appears here and inside the app, with a new date at the top.
Questions about privacy in Jinyus can go to tylerscho@gmail.com.
The questions that come up most. Anything else, email tylerscho@gmail.com.
Check all four: Screen Time permission granted, apps chosen, “Lock my apps now” tapped, and that you’re on a real iPhone. Blocking cannot work in the iOS Simulator.
That’s the unlock window expiring. Change how long it lasts in Settings › Unlock lasts.
Settings › Turn locking off. You can also revoke access entirely in iOS Settings › Screen Time › Apps with Screen Time Access.
Tap the sliders icon at the top of the Today screen, or open Settings › Topics.
Questions are generated from the article’s own text. Most read well, but occasionally one lands awkwardly. If a question is genuinely unanswerable from the article, tell us which story it was.
Jinyus needs an internet connection to fetch the day’s news. If you’ve picked only a few narrow topics there may be less to choose from — try adding a couple more.