Lockleaf · Coming summer 2026
Your phone unlocks
when the book does.
A small iOS app that turns your most distracting apps into reading time. To get back into Instagram, read a few pages of your book — then pass a quiz on what you just read.
iOS. Summer 2026. One email when it ships. No funnel.
How it works
- 1.
Pick the apps that eat your evenings.
Instagram. TikTok. X. Reddit. Whichever ones it is for you.
- 2.
Pick when you'd rather be reading.
Before 9am. After 7pm. The moments you'd otherwise be scrolling.
- 3.
During those hours, the book is the way back.
Open Instagram → "Read 10 pages of your book first." Read. Pass the quiz. Phone unlocks. Repeat tomorrow.
Why it works
Screen-time apps fail because they fight willpower with willpower. Reading goals fail because reading is a deferred reward — your phone is an immediate one.
Lockleaf changes the trade. It makes the cost of using your phone something you can't fake: comprehension of a real book. You can sit through a thirty-minute Pomodoro and learn nothing. You cannot pass a three-question quiz on a book you didn't read.
Who's building this
I'm Henry. I run Club West, a small software studio. I'm building Lockleaf because I have unread books on my nightstand and I spent last night on Instagram.
Join the list and I'll send you one note when it's ready. That's it.