Kept blocks the apps and websites that pull you away, at the hours and places you choose. Focus time at the office. Family time every evening. A strict bedtime.
A moment is a window in your day where chosen apps and sites go quiet. Give it hours, give it a place, decide what a pause costs. Kept does the rest, even with the app closed.
Pick the apps from Apple's own picker, whole categories if you like, and the websites you keep opening in Safari. One switch blocks every adult site.
A pause opens the apps for a while. It can cost nothing, ten seconds, a typed passage, three sums, a steady hand, your code, a partner's code, or a charger. And you set how many pauses a day. Zero is allowed.
Hours are only half of it. A moment can run only at home, or everywhere but the office. Kept follows where you are, not only the clock, and the comparison never leaves the phone.
Commit until a date and the moment cannot be softened, the pauses drop to zero, and Kept itself cannot be deleted from the phone. One emergency pass a month remains, for real emergencies.
Reports count what you kept, exactly, and show how much of your evening came back from Screen Time's own figures. Never a guilt trip in minutes.
A pause is the way back in, for fifteen minutes. Make it free and it is a mindful tap. Make it expensive and the scroll is not worth it. Nine prices, one per moment.
One tap. Awareness only.
Then 30 s, then 60 s later the same day.
About 40 words, no copy and paste.
Arithmetic, no calculator.
8 times. Needs a steady hand.
Landscape, portrait, landscape, portrait.
A PIN you set now and will half forget.
Someone you trust reads it to you. Or says no.
The phone must be on a charger. Anchors it to a room.
Pauses a day. Three ways back a day, each with its price. Set it to zero and nothing opens the apps until the moment ends. A strict moment always has zero.
Kept follows where you are, not only the clock. Arriving and leaving can take a few minutes to register, and the comparison happens on the phone. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Gentle lets you change your mind. Firm locks the rule while it runs. Committed locks it until a date you choose, and that is the one nobody gets past, including you.
Two kinds of numbers, kept apart. Ours are exact: which moments you kept, whole or with a pause. Apple's are the minutes, drawn by Screen Time itself, inside the hours you protected.
Amber is a moment kept whole. Pale is kept with a pause. Dashed is broken. Nothing else counts.
From Screen Time. These are the apps you blocked, inside the hours you protected, not your whole day. The bar is how much of that time came back.
Open the app, grant Screen Time, make a moment. Nothing to sign up for.
Your moments, your places and your results live on your phone and in your own iCloud.
Apple draws the app names and the minutes inside its own components. Kept never sees them.
Kept is in TestFlight now and comes to the App Store soon. iPhone, iOS 17 or later.
Free to try. Then a subscription, with a seven-day trial.