Les Gardiens of Silence
Daniel Bauke Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Les Gardiens of Silence is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Daniel Bauke. Requires iOS 26.1. Updated October 15, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 84 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 15
- 2026 · v1.2.6
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About Les Gardiens of Silence
Block distracting apps and websites — for the next half hour, through every meeting on your calendar, or every evening after nine. And when you want them back early — well, you'll have to explain yourself. Les Gardiens of Silence is an app blocker with a personality: six guardians, each with their own idea of what counts as a good reason to unblock. ONE TAP FROM YOUR WIDGET The Home Screen widget blocks your apps with one tap — for anywhere from 30 minutes to forever. No opening the app, no ceremony. Tap, and it's quiet. BLOCKS THAT FOLLOW YOUR CALENDAR Choose the calendars that count and every event becomes a block — meetings, focus time, dinner. Set weekly schedules too. You plan once, and les Gardiens keep the plan. THE EXIT INTERVIEW Need your blocked apps back early? Make your case to your guardian. Say what you need to do and for how long — a real reason earns a timed unlock, while boredom, habit, and "just checking" get a raised eyebrow. No verdict comes instantly: your reason has to survive a little probing first. Choose who stands guard — three levels of stubbornness: from Théo, a former spin instructor who cheers every honest reason, to Céleste, who treats your unlock like an expense report, to Ernst, who replies in German and has never once been in a hurry. ACCOUNTABILITY, À DEUX Pair with someone you trust. To unblock early, send them a request — they approve or decline, and you get a moment to think twice. You both see what's blocked and how much of each block was kept, and can send one cheer a day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, nothing that identifies you. • Guardian conversations run on Apple's on-device AI by default. • Pairing with a friend uses an anonymous identity, and what you write to each other is end-to-end encrypted. • Your calendar is read on-device and never uploaded. • No trackers, no selling of data. No ad networks. Blocking is built on Apple's Screen Time technology, so the app will ask for that permission before it can block anything. The on-device AI requires a recent iPhone. If yours doesn't support it, the guardian can talk through a secure cloud service instead. Silence is gardé. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://les-gardiens.app/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.2.6 · Updated October 15, 2026
Allez mon ami, Théo here with the fixes that make your blocks actually behave! • Fixed a cluster of sneaky lock bugs — ending a schedule or calendar block early, quick-locking mid-window, or tapping the Home Screen's "Block for 30 min" button now all do exactly what they should, no more stuck shields or restarted sessions. • Break-request decisions and lock-screen justifications now arrive and decrypt properly, so a friend's verdict always gets through. • Picking your Gardien's name is smoother — one tap on the gender picker rerolls a matching name, no more fumbling icons. Recently: • Your Gardien's cooldown now shows a real countdown instead of a random footnote, and the whole cast got new nod-and-glow animations while composing a reply.
App privacy
The developer, Daniel Bauke, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
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:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- User Content: Customer Support
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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