Kove — the blocker you can't talk yourself out of

Four things, built to work together

Blocking is the enforcement. Focus sessions are the replacement. Habits are the progress. A partner is the reason you don’t quietly give up.

Blocking that holds

Block individual apps or whole categories through Apple’s Screen Time. Blocks keep working while Kove is closed, and they stack — if two blocks cover an app, both have to clear before it opens.

Focus sessions

Six kinds: a focus timer, breathing, meditation, pomodoro, a body scan, and wind-down. Ambient soundscapes, optional voice guidance, and a live countdown on your Lock Screen.

Habits that count themselves

Daily and weekly habits with streaks and earned badges. Health-backed habits — steps, active minutes, distance, sleep — fill themselves in from Apple Health, so there’s nothing to remember to tap.

Someone who actually knows

Add an accountability partner and they see the slips, not just the wins: a missed habit, a broken streak, a block you talked your way past. Both people opt in, and either can end it.

How the blocking actually works

You decide when a block switches on, and how hard it is to get out of — in advance, while you’re thinking clearly.

When it turns on

Any of these, and they stack.

Right now — a switch you flip yourself
On a schedule — including overnight, with breaks you carve out
After a daily limit — “30 minutes, then done for the day”
At a place — at the office, or everywhere except home
Until a health goal — locked until you’ve walked 8,000 steps

What it takes to get out

Pick your friction, or pick none at all.

Breathe — a paced breathing exercise, longer each time you cave
Wait — a timer that grows with every unlock that day
Walk — a set number of real steps before it opens
Type your why — retype your own reason. Pasting is blocked.
No breaks — no escape hatch at all until the block ends

Locked In goes one step further: while the block is running you can’t edit it, switch it off, or delete it. You can still delete the whole app — no app on iPhone can stop that, and we won’t pretend otherwise — but the easy way out is gone.

And you can see where the time went

Kove reads your iPhone’s own Screen Time and sorts it into distracting, neutral and productive automatically — you only correct it where it guesses wrong. Alongside it sits the number most screen-time apps never show you: how long you actually spent focused.

Private by architecture, not just by promise

Three commitments that shape how the app is built.

Your data stays yours

Your blocks, habits, focus history, and screen-time data live in your own private iCloud. We have no copy and no way to read them.

No location, no tracking

Location-based blocking is evaluated entirely on your device. We don’t track you across other apps or websites, and there are no ads.

Anonymous by default

We measure how the app is used with anonymous analytics — counts and categories, never the content of what you block, track, or type.