Covenant Eyes: Quit Porn Now 17+

Purity and trust are worth every expense

I’ve been on a long journey of fighting porn addiction. I’ve had my fair share of ups and downs, but one of the biggest game-changers in this ordeal has been downloading covenant eyes. I’ve now had Covenant Eyes installed on my laptop and phone for over a year and a half, and I can’t imagine walking in purity without it. Thanks to this service, the support of my friends and wife, and the Grace of God, I’ve been clean for over a year now.

This service isn’t perfect, but it’s so much better than just keeping an unrestricted browser and expecting yourself to deny any temptations.

I once heard a man criticize the commonly thrown around phrase “struggling with porn.” He responded to it by asking “well, what are you doing to struggle?” If you don’t change any of your habits or restrain your access to porn, then you’re not struggling at all. You’re really just rolling over and letting it win. One of the most important steps is getting in the game and fighting to win. Covenant eyes is helping me win, and I’m very grateful to have this resource on my side.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for leaving a review and sharing your story. That is a huge milestone that we are celebrating with you. We love being part of your purity story. Keep up the good work.

Phone is unusable unless browser is open in background

So with the recent update that uses a VPN to track everything on the phone, I thought “what a great idea”. It was just another way to keep everyone more accountable. Well my happiness was quickly turned into sadness when I could not longer text, use my apps, or call people. Yes for a whole day my phone was completely useless. The only app that worked was the Covenant Eyes app. (I am the type of person that closes an app out, once I’m finished using it. I don’t like to have a bunch of apps running in the background) So at one point I didn’t close out Covenant Eyes and I let it stay open in the background. It was at this point I started to receive texts that hadn’t been coming through, and I noticed that my other apps started working. Basically the VPN connected to Covenant Eyes blocks my phone from connecting to my cellular network unless I keep the browser app open at all times. This is not okay!!!!!

On top of all of that, the app is buggy. It constantly asks me to sign in, it constantly deletes all of my open tabs, and it constantly crashes. Sometimes it crashes and I don’t realize it and then if people have been texting me, I don’t receive anything. This app has really become a problem. The use of a VPN was a great idea, but it has never been perfected. It’s almost like they released it without testing it first. If they don’t fix this soon, I’m going to have to cancel my subscription.

Doesn’t catch everything and buggy

The app was working fairly well for a while, but it zooms in on some pages with video players for some reason, and good luck getting it to load more than one video in a row. The UI is clunky, it has slow load times every once in a while, the safe search seems to be permanently on, and it does not catch some things. It seems like incognito modes in other browsers don’t set off accountability as much. Haven’t tested it on porn sites, but it will usually flag Reddit or other pages when not using the mode, and as far as I can tell will not if in private browsing.

This app will catch things like Instagram-linked questionable sites, which is much appreciated, and it has definitely improved over time. It is a valuable tool for fighting porn addiction, but the bugs and the clumsiness can be absolutely maddening. Safesearch all of a sudden being an enforced thing across apps is also not something I want, but it isn’t necessarily bad. I would recommend its use, but make sure your accountability partner asks you specific and uncomfortable questions often, because there are still plenty of ways around this accountability software.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for leaving a review and detailed feedback. We agree, the Accountability Ally relationship and asking tough questions is extremely important in ones success.

The app will have two levels of reporting, Screen Accountability within the Covenant Eyes app and domain monitoring outside of our app, which should monitor incognito activity as well. You may be seeing the domains on the reports due to the different levels of reporting.

There are some things we may be able to adjust regarding the filter settings, which affects safe search, as well as the videos and load times within the app. Would you reach out to us at 989-720-8000 or chat(Covenant Eyes My Account), and we can help?