Konvo is Instagram with only the messages.
A paid Konvo subscription is required to access Instagram DMs through the app. Available plans, prices, billing periods, and any eligible free trial are shown before you confirm an Apple in-app purchase.
Sign in with your Instagram account and Konvo opens straight to your inbox. The feed, Reels, and Explore never load. Your chats are exactly as you left them, and everything you send and receive shows up in Instagram like normal, because it is Instagram, just only the part you actually need.
WHAT KONVO DOES
- Opens directly to your Instagram inbox, every time
- No feed, no Reels, no Explore, anywhere in the app
- Your DMs, group chats, message requests, and story replies all work
- You sign in on instagram.com inside the app. Konvo never sees or stores your password
BLOCK THE REAL INSTAGRAM, IF YOU WANT
Connect Konvo to Screen Time and the Instagram app itself gets blocked behind a shield. Your messages stay one tap away in Konvo. You get two five-minute passes a day to unlock Instagram for the things that need the real app: posting a story, a picture, or calling someone. When the pass ends, Instagram locks itself again. The block is optional and you can turn it off whenever you want.
OPTIONAL MESSAGE NOTIFICATIONS AND PRIVACY
Get alerts for new Instagram DMs while Konvo is closed. If you enable this feature, Konvo stores an encrypted Instagram sign-in session on its server to check for new messages. Message content is processed temporarily in memory and is not saved. You can disconnect in Message notifications settings. Konvo collects basic usage analytics to improve the app.
Konvo requires an Instagram account. Konvo is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Message notifications are rolling out in a limited pilot for new users, subject to available places. Already connected accounts keep access.
I think that this app is a great idea and it’s something I’ve been searching for for a while. I doubt that this app won’t have a massive following if what I say right now gets fixed. The problem is that I’ve been using this app for a few weeks and my experience with it has honestly made me consider downloading Instagram rather than completely shutting it out of my life. It’s just sooo slow. Like, it does everything correctly but tenfold slower than normal Instagram. And because of that, it’s hard to justify the paid subscription. Considering I’m 90% certain it’s just web browser Instagram with features cut out, I find it hard to recommend this app to people in good faith. Just because I understand why it’s paid or why it’s slow doesn’t change the fact that I don’t really like it. Unless you consistently have perfect cellular data or WiFi it will not be fun using this. I think this app is a fantastic idea but the implementation of that idea fails on most fronts. 3 stars because I don’t want to seriously affect the rating/star review considering how good the idea is.
Review
Asi0011
Great app! My only issue is the subscription payment part. Everything else is amazing and helpful.
Works sorta well
Aiden👌🏻
Simply try the konvo membership free trial, I was very pleased by my results of not scrolling. My main use of Instagram was to text certain people and it worked very well at that besides the fact that you cannot see pictures that are not saved in chat or call. Other than that it is very laggy, for some reason for me it did not block Instagram off my phone even when I tried multiple times so I had to hide and put a passcode on Instagram to limit myself instead, but overall a fantastic app. I would highly recommend in anybody’s journey to be less distracted by fake dopamine and to have a more meaningful purposeful life and not spend 10 years of your life scrolling.
I understand why its a paid service 🤷🏻♀️
luvkanin
Sooo many reviews complaining that this is a paid service, mind you its literally just some hs dude making all of this in his spare time like cmon.. A feature id hopefully like to see in the future is being able to send videos, calling and putting music on my notes. Gotta be moody on main somehow.
We want you to have the best possible Konvo experience. This update contains bug fixes and improvements to ensure the app's continued speed and reliability.
Version 2.6.0
The developer, Yi Hyun Park, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Yi Hyun Park
Size
82 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 7 more
English, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Traditional Chinese
