Vowlock: Strict App Blocker
Eren Demirkesen Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Vowlock: Strict App Blocker is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Eren Demirkesen. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 16 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 24
- 2026 · v1.2.4
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About Vowlock: Strict App Blocker
Vowlock is a strict app blocker for people who are done negotiating with themselves. Block apps behind Apple's Screen Time shields, seal the block with a vow, and make breaking it cost something real. Less brain rot, more evenings that are actually yours. Most app blockers are a toggle you flip off the moment an urge hits. No iOS blocker is unbreakable, so Vowlock is built on a harder truth: breaking one should cost something. With Vowlock you do not just block distracting apps. You seal a vow. SEAL A VOW, BLOCK APPS FOR AS LONG AS IT RUNS Choose the apps that eat your evenings: the feeds, the games, the one you open without deciding to. Choose how long the vow runs, from fifteen minutes to a full day. Then seal it with a short ritual: one line that is true for you, one spoken plea recorded on camera, and a heartbeat pulsing through the phone as you commit. From that second, your chosen apps go dark behind Apple's Screen Time shields. Think of it as a focus mode you cannot swipe away. AN APP LIMIT THAT ACTUALLY HOLDS Vowlock is an app limiter without a daily allowance to renegotiate. The app limit holds for the whole window you chose, not until you tap Ignore. That is the difference between a screen time app that asks you to stop scrolling and a screen time blocker that keeps its word. BREAKING COSTS SOMETHING An app blocker you can switch off in two taps is only a suggestion. Want out early? Vowlock will not shame you, but it will not make it easy. You sit through the break ritual, feel that same heartbeat again, and watch the recording of yourself asking you not to. Most urges do not survive that mirror. Willpower is easier to find when the version of you who made the promise is looking back. STOP DOOM SCROLLING, STAY FOCUSED Use Vowlock as a distraction blocker to stop doomscrolling at night, to stay focused through a work block, or as a social media blocker for the whole weekend. Doom scrolling ends when the feed is simply not there. Self control is a muscle. Every kept vow is one more rep, and every rep teaches your thumb that the feed can wait. THE PROMISE WALL Every vow becomes a glass pane on your wall. Kept vows shine. A broken pane does not shame you; it reforges after seven kept days. Over weeks, the wall becomes a quiet record of who you are becoming: discipline you can look at, rather than a streak you dread losing. DOPAMINE DETOX ON YOUR OWN TERMS Run a phone detox for one evening, a dopamine detox for a weekend, or a longer digital detox to reduce screen time for good. Vowlock is a digital detox app for phone addiction that does not pretend the cure is a chart of your usage. Recurring schedules seal the same vow on the days and hours you choose, a home screen widget keeps your progress in sight, a Lock Screen countdown keeps the running vow in view, and weekly patterns show when your urges cluster so the next vow covers that hour. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE Vowlock is a self control app, not a surveillance app. Your pleas and your app list stay on this device. No account. No upload. Apple's Screen Time technology means Vowlock cannot even see the names of the apps you block. Vowlock is the app blocker for people who are done negotiating with themselves. Seal the vow. Keep it. Watch the wall fill. Requires iOS 17 or later and Screen Time permission. Free to download; some features are available through an optional subscription, with details shown in the app before any purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vowlock-app.web.app/privacy Support: https://vowlock-app.web.app
What’s new
Version 1.2.4 · Updated September 24, 2026
A quiet update: the store listing is refreshed in every language, plus small fixes behind the scenes. Nothing changes in how you use Vowlock.
App privacy
The developer, Eren Demirkesen, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
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:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vowlock: Strict App Blocker | – | Free | September 24, 2026 |
| Hold On: App Blocker & Focus | 5.0 / 5 (1) | Free | Sep 12, 2026 |
| Screen Time Blocker - Otama | – | Free | Aug 24, 2026 |
| Doomblock – Strict App Blocker | – | Free | Jul 23, 2026 |
| DigiBound: Screen Time Blocker | – | Free | Sep 23, 2026 |
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