Transport yourself to the world's most relaxing screen time app. Gain back the 5 to 6 hours you lose daily. Lock your phone, focus, build good habits. No way out.
Two months. That's what four hours of screen time a day costs you every year. Sanctum sets you free. Press start and your phone locks. No pause. No snooze. No "five more minutes." There is no button that lets you back in.
Most app blockers leave an easy back door. A skip. An "extra time" unlock. So the scroll always wins, because it always can, in one tap. Sanctum has no quick exit. Leaving early takes a short mindful practice first. Weakness is never one tap away.
WHY THE COMMITMENT MATTERS
Willpower fails when you need it most. Cutting screen time is a decision your phone makes you re-take every minute. Sanctum moves the choice to before you start, then holds the line.
HOW IT WORKS
Choose a duration. Press start. Sanctum will block apps system-wide until the timer runs out. Leaving early means completing a short reflection first, and by then the urge has usually passed. No categories, no decisions once you begin. Need one app for a few minutes? Unblock it: it opens, the timer runs, and the app blocker comes back on its own. It is the simplest way to block apps you will ever use.
BLOCK APPS ON AUTOPILOT
Beyond one-off locks, Sanctum can block apps and cut screen time on its own:
- Schedules. Block apps automatically on the days and hours you choose. Work mornings, study blocks, sleep.
- Daily App Limits. Set app limits that cap screen time on the apps you pick. Shared budget or one each. When the time runs out, they close until midnight.
SOCIAL MEDIA SCREEN TIME, HANDLED
Social media is engineered to beat your willpower. Block social media for an hour, put social media behind daily app limits, and your screen time falls without a fight.
BUILD BETTER PHONE HABITS
Every lock you finish and every urge you resist scores five traits: Stillness, Discipline, Restraint, Grounding and Breath. Watch them rise as your screen time falls.
WHEN AN URGE HITS
Reach for a blocked app and Sanctum meets you with a moment, not a wall: a short practice. Sit in stillness, breathe it out, walk it off, or write the urge down and watch it burn. By the time it is done the pull is usually gone, and the stress with it.
YOU'RE NEVER TRAPPED
Calls, the camera and the essential system apps iOS protects keep working, so you can reach someone anytime. Sanctum adds friction to a habit, never a lock on your life.
BEAUTIFUL LIVING THEMES
Sanctum is built to be experienced. New immersive scenes arrive regularly, each one transporting you into a living natural world, with a large ambient clock that helps calm the mind. Lock your screen time and your phone becomes a beautiful desk clock with calming sleep sounds, not a thing to escape.
WHO IT'S FOR
- Anyone whose focus is stolen by social media and doomscrolling
- ADHD and executive-function struggles, where "just put it down" never works
- Anyone whose screen time keeps climbing no matter which app blocker they try
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Offline-first and ad-free. No account, no cloud. Sanctum is built on Apple's own Screen Time framework, and your screen time data never leaves your device.
FEATURES
- Uncompromising system-wide screen time blocker. No pause, no snooze, no one-tap exit
- Block apps right now, on a schedule, or behind daily app limits
- Hard Mode: the strictest app blocker setting, no unblocks until the timer ends
- Timed unblocks: one app opens for a few minutes, then the block returns by itself
- Block social media on the days and hours you set
- Cap screen time per app with shared or individual app limits
- Streaks, medals and five traits that track your progress
- Live Activity: your countdown and your unblock, right on your Lock Screen
Sanctum is the screen time app for people done negotiating. Block apps, set daily app limits, tame social media, and watch your screen time finally drop.
Not just an app blocker. Your sanctuary from your screen.
Learn more at https://sanctum.clovinyx.io
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Finally there’s an app that helped me stop doom scrolling and be more productive in life!!!
DAE3333
My screen time was 6h20m a day. It’s down to about 2h40m now, and most of that is maps and music.I work hybrid, so my phone sits right next to my laptop all day. Instagram and TikTok used to win that fight every single time. What made this one stick is that there’s no way out mid-session. No pause, no snooze, no “five more minutes.” You set the timer and that’s the deal. If you genuinely need out early, you have to sit through a short exercise first, and by the time that’s done, the urge has passed and I just put the phone down.The schedules do most of the work now. 9 to 12 is blocked on office days, so I finish real work before lunch. 7 to 9 is blocked at home, so evenings go to my family instead of a feed. Reels and X have a daily cap, so they shut themselves off.During emergencies, the important apps for communication still works!It also doesn’t guilt you with minutes. It tracks stillness, restraint, discipline, grounding and breath. Watching restraint climb felt like actual progress.More exercise screens would be nice to see in future enhancements. But for a doom scroller like me, this one works great.
Best focus & screen time app for real. Themes 😍
AbhiSpeed
I've deleted about five focus apps before this one, because every single one had a skip button. I'd tap it and be back on Reels in a second. Sanctum has no skip. Pick a duration, press start, and that's it. No pause, no snooze.I still get the urge. That part hasn't gone away, and I still reach for the phone without thinking. But instead of the app opening, Sanctum shows a block screen that makes you stop and do one short thing first. Most times, by the end of it, I don't want to open the app anymore.The part I didn't expect to like is that Sanctum doesn't count minutes. It tracks five things: stillness, restraint, discipline, grounding and breath. So instead of feeling bad about my screen time, I can see restraint going up, because I wanted the phone and didn't grab it. That framing worked on me.The themes are beautiful too. They move, and the whole app changes colour with them, so the phone just sits there looking like a nice clock.I'd like more block screens, and the lifetime price feels steep. Everything else is solid. Three weeks with Sanctum and still using it.
Sanctum is the screen time blocker with no way out. Lock your phone, block apps and social media, and build better phone habits.
What's new in this version:
- Bug fixes and improvements.
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Version 0.1.10
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Information
Seller
Clovinyx LLC
Size
140.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
