Vowlock: Strict App Blocker
Dopamine detox, stay focused
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Vowlock is a strict app blocker sealed with a vow. Block short videos and doom scrolling, stay focused for as long as it runs, and get your evenings back.
Vowlock is a strict app blocker for people who are done negotiating with themselves. Block apps behind Apple's Screen Time shields, seal the block with a vow, and make breaking it cost something real. Less brain rot, more evenings that are actually yours.
Most app blockers are a toggle you flip off the moment an urge hits. No iOS blocker is unbreakable, so Vowlock is built on a harder truth: breaking one should cost something. With Vowlock you do not just block distracting apps. You seal a vow.
SEAL A VOW, BLOCK APPS FOR AS LONG AS IT RUNS
Choose the apps that eat your evenings: the feeds, the games, the one you open without deciding to, and any website you would rather not open. Choose how long the vow runs, from fifteen minutes to a full day. Then seal it with a short ritual: one line that is true for you, one spoken plea recorded on camera, and a heartbeat pulsing through the phone as you commit. From that second, your chosen apps go dark behind Apple's Screen Time shields. Think of it as a focus mode you cannot swipe away.
BREAKING COSTS SOMETHING
An app blocker you can switch off in two taps is only a suggestion. Want out early? Vowlock will not shame you, but it will not make it easy. You sit through the break ritual, feel that same heartbeat again, and watch the recording of yourself asking you not to. Most urges do not survive that mirror. Willpower is easier to find when the version of you who made the promise is looking back.
STOP DOOM SCROLLING, STAY FOCUSED
Use Vowlock as a distraction blocker to stop doomscrolling at night, to stay focused through a work block, or as a social media blocker for the whole weekend. Doom scrolling ends when the feed is simply not there. Need a short-video blocker? Vowlock takes a whole social media or short-video app off the table, the app itself rather than one tab inside it, so its endless feed goes with it. Self control is a muscle. Every kept vow is one more rep, and every rep teaches your thumb that the feed can wait.
THE PROMISE WALL
Every vow becomes a glass pane on your wall. Kept vows shine. A broken pane does not shame you; it reforges after seven kept days. Over weeks, the wall becomes a quiet record of who you are becoming: discipline you can look at, rather than a streak you dread losing.
DOPAMINE DETOX ON YOUR OWN TERMS
Run a phone detox for one evening, a dopamine detox for a weekend, or a longer digital detox to reduce screen time for good. Vowlock is a digital detox app for phone addiction that does not pretend a chart of your usage is the answer. Addiction to the feed loosens its grip when the feed is sealed behind a promise. Recurring schedules seal the same vow on the days and hours you choose, a home screen widget keeps your progress in sight, a Lock Screen countdown keeps the running vow in view, and weekly patterns show when your urges cluster so the next vow covers that hour.
YOUR VOWS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE
Vowlock is a self control app, not a surveillance app. Your pleas, your vow lines and your app list stay on this device. No account, and none of it is ever sent to us. Apple's Screen Time technology means Vowlock cannot even see the names of the apps you block. Anonymous usage statistics help us improve the app, and one switch in Vowlock's Settings turns them off.
Requires iOS 17 or later and Screen Time permission. Free to download, and your first vow is always free, with the full ritual and full strictness. More vows after the first, recurring schedules, your full Promise Wall history and weekly urge patterns come with an optional subscription or one-time purchase, with details shown in the app before any purchase.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://vowlock-app.web.app/privacy
Support: https://vowlock-app.web.app
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Your first vow no longer needs a subscription: after setup, seal it with the full ritual and full strictness. Vowlock Plus now says exactly what it adds. A new switch in Settings stops sharing anonymous usage data. Subscribers no longer see an upgrade screen after keeping a first vow.
The developer, Eren Demirkesen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Eren Demirkesen
- Size
- 16.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 15 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Plus Lifetime $74.99
- Plus Monthly $9.99
- Plus Annual $49.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Eren Demirkesen