Kindwake: Morning App Blocker
Tom Wilford Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Kindwake: Morning App Blocker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Tom Wilford. Rated 5.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 38 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 20
- 2026 · v1.9.1
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About Kindwake: Morning App Blocker
Stop morning doomscrolling before it starts. Kindwake locks the apps that pull you in and keeps them locked until you finish a short morning ritual. Write three gratitudes. Add an intention or a daily reflection if you like. Take a guided breath. Then your apps unlock and the day is yours. WAKE UP KIND TO YOURSELF Most of us give the first minutes of the day to notifications, feeds and other people's content, before we have had a single thought of our own. Kindwake gives those minutes back. You choose the apps the night before, on behalf of the version of you who wakes up tomorrow with less willpower. In the morning, the decision is already made. MORE THAN A SCREEN TIME LIMIT App limits are easy to ignore. You tap "remind me in 15 minutes" and carry on. Kindwake uses Apple's Screen Time technology to lock the apps you pick at your chosen time, and keeps them locked while you complete your ritual. Nothing to negotiate with at 7am. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose which apps to lock. Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, or anything else that pulls you in. 2. Set your lock time. 3. Wake up and complete your ritual: three gratitudes and a guided breathing pause, plus intentions or a daily reflection if you choose. 4. Your apps unlock for the rest of the day. A few minutes. Then your phone is yours. YOUR MORNING ROUTINE Three things you are grateful for. Small ones count as much as big ones. A guided breathing pause, to land in the morning before it starts. Want more? Add them any time in Settings: A daily reflection to sit with first thing, from Stoicism, Christianity, Inspiration or Everyday. Three intentions for the day. Not a to-do list, a direction for how you want to show up. Guided prompts appear if you are not sure what to write. And life happens: an emergency unlock is there for the mornings that truly need it. A HABIT THAT ACTUALLY STICKS Track your streak and watch it grow. Level up as your practice deepens. Look back through your gratitude history, and share a morning card whenever you write something worth keeping. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your gratitudes and intentions are yours. No account required, and Kindwake cannot read what you write. Screen Time works by letting Kindwake lock and unlock apps without ever seeing what is inside them. We cannot see your messages, your feed or your activity. KINDWAKE IS FOR YOU IF You reach for Instagram before you are properly awake. App limits have never once worked for you. You want a gratitude journal you will still be using in a month. You want a morning routine that survives past week two. You want your mornings back without deleting everything. SUBSCRIPTION Kindwake is free to try for 7 days. After the trial, full access requires a subscription. Current pricing is shown in the app and varies by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your free trial converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://kindwake.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions? [email protected] Lock tonight. Wake up kind.
What’s new
Version 1.9.1 · Updated October 20, 2026
A calmer look at your journey: your insights now sit in a simple timeline, with the next ones waiting just ahead. Plus small fixes and polish.
App privacy
The developer, Tom Wilford, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Name
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Product Personalization, App Functionality