Kept

Kept for iPhone

Kept: Screen Time Limits

Pick the apps that take more of your day than you'd like. Kept gives each one a daily limit and checks in while you're using it. It can also block them for the hours you want back, like your evenings or bedtime. When the time's up, getting more means opening Kept and waiting, and each wait that day is longer than the last. None of it leaves your phone.

Download Kept on the App Store

For iPhone. Free for 14 days, and you don't need a card.

What Kept does

I made Kept for my own family. Each of us sets limits on our own phone, and Kept uses Apple's Screen Time to hold them. It tells you what more time will cost before you take it.

  • Daily limits for up to 5 apps

    You pick individual apps, and each one gets its own daily limit, anywhere from 5 minutes to 3 hours. Kept doesn't block whole categories. Phone, Messages, alarms, and any app you didn't pick are never blocked.

  • Check-ins

    Opening an app costs nothing until you hit its limit. Every 10 minutes of use (you can change that), Kept asks "Keep going?" Carry on, or call it done.

  • A wait before more time

    When the day's minutes run out, the app is blocked until midnight. To get more, open Kept. It costs a freeze if you have one. If you don't, it costs your streak and a wait with Kept on screen. The first wait that day is 1 minute, then 3, then 5, and every wait after that is 10.

  • Streaks and freezes

    Each day you stay within your limits adds a day to your streak. A freeze gives one app its full limit again for today, with no wait, and your streak keeps going. You start with 1 freeze and earn another every 7 days.

  • Protected time

    Pick hours when your limited apps are blocked, like Evenings from 5 to 9 PM or Bedtime from 10 PM to 7 AM, on whichever days you choose. You can't get extra time during those hours. Emergencies are the one exception. If one doesn't fit a day, turn it off for today, and it comes back on at midnight.

  • Protect now

    Protect now blocks your limited apps from this minute for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or until 9 PM. Start it from Home, Shortcuts, or Siri, or from Control Center on iOS 18 or later. A countdown shows on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. It doesn't count toward Kept Free's 1 protected time.

  • Emergencies

    If you need an app during protected time, open Kept, tap Emergency, and pick 5 or 15 minutes. You get 3 a month, and a 15 uses 2 of them. They don't cost you your streak.

  • Your week

    Your week shows the days and evenings you kept, how often you said I'm done, your hardest hour, and one suggestion.

  • A Lock Screen widget

    The widget shows whether Kept is on, when protected time ends, and how many apps are done for today.

  • Your data stays on your phone

    There's no account to make, and Kept has no ads, analytics, or tracking. Apple's Screen Time keeps your app use on your iPhone. Kept can't even see which apps you use.

  • Turn it off any time

    Turn Kept off in its Settings and every block lifts right away. Kept turns itself back on at 6 AM, unless you choose I turn it back on. Your apps, limits, and protected times are saved, so turning it back on yourself is one tap.

Price

You get all of Kept Pro for 14 days. After that, keep using Kept Free, or pay for Kept Pro to get weekend limits and every past week in Your week.

Free for 14 days, no card

You get every Kept Pro feature from the day you download it. There's nothing to sign up for, and the trial doesn't charge you when it ends.

Kept Free

$0

After the trial, for as long as you want it.

  • Limits for 3 apps
  • 1 protected time
  • Hold 1 freeze
  • Your week for this week and last

Kept Pro

$2.99/mo, $19.99/yr, or $49.99 once

All three work with Family Sharing. Cancel a subscription any time in iOS Settings.

  • A different limit on weekends for each app
  • Every past week in Your week
  • Limits for up to 5 apps
  • Up to 5 protected times
  • Hold up to 3 freezes

These are free on every plan: Protect now, the Lock Screen widget, check-ins, the wait, your streak, emergencies, the 5-minute warning, turning Kept off, and the diagnostics log you can send me. Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country.