Features
A blocker you can’t talk your way past.
Warden blocks the apps you choose and gives the only early unlock to one person you trust. When you want out before your own rules say so, you ask them, and it’s their call.
Blocking
The parts every blocker has.
Built on Apple’s Screen Time framework, so iOS puts the shield up itself. No workaround that quietly stops working after an update.
- Shielded apps and categories
- Whole apps, or a whole category like Games
- Blocked web domains
- Closes the browser route around an app block
- Schedules
- Hours and days, repeating weekly
- Per-app daily limits
- Each app gets its own minutes, not a shared pool
- Pooled allowance
- One budget for everything you didn’t itemise
- Protected focus
- Hold to begin. Runs even if you close Warden
The key
The part nothing else has.
One person you chose holds the only early unlock. They can’t change your rules, add apps, or see what you use.
- Who unlocks early
- Your Keyholder, and nobody else
- How you ask
- A request with a note and a number of minutes
- If nobody answers
- It stays blocked. Warden never fails open
- Granted time
- A countdown, or minutes spent only inside the apps
- Changing Keyholder
- 24-hour cooling period, current one is told
- Device binding
- Only the device that accepted can approve
Living with it
The parts that keep it going.
A streak worth protecting, a weekly report with real minutes in it, and a way out that always works.
- Streak
- Days unbroken, with a 90-day grid
- Weekly report
- Real minutes, this week against last
- Dynamic Island
- Live countdown, with pause and resume
- Home Screen widgets
- Streak and status, no app names
- Emergency override
- Instant, offline, no approval, always
- Never trapped
- Shields clear if the app hasn’t run in 72 hours
What we cannot see
These are not policies. They are limits of how the app is built, and we could not change our minds about them without shipping a different app.
Warden blocks the apps you choose and gives the only early unlock to one person you trust. When you want out before your own rules say so, you ask them, and it’s their call.
Which apps you picked
Warden never learns their names. iOS doesn’t say.
Hours saved
Nobody can measure a week you didn’t have.
Your activity, to anyone else
Your Keyholder sees a streak. There is no feed.