App blocking that fits your day.

Warden uses your goals and available Screen Time patterns to recommend which apps to limit, a daily allowance, recurring block times and a suitable protection mode. Each suggestion explains its reasoning. You review and approve every rule.

Usage-based recommendations need iOS 26.4 or later, supported Screen Time data access and enough history. Without that access, you can still use goal-based suggestions and create manual rules.

Warden uses Apple's Screen Time system to block selected apps. Lockdown prevents ordinary early unlocks and edits to active rules until the block ends or the daily limit resets. No accountability partner is needed.

Emergency access remains available. Lockdown makes an active rule harder to bypass in Warden; it does not prevent you changing iOS permissions.

A daily limit controls how much time selected apps get. A schedule blocks them during chosen hours and days. A focus session is a one-off timer for something you want to finish.

For example, use a daily allowance for social apps and a recurring overnight block for bedtime. Leave essential tools and communication outside the selection.

Daily limit

An allowance for the selected app or scope.

Routine

A recurring set of days and clock hours.

Focus session

A timer for the task in front of you.

Review recorded protection and the app-use comparisons available through Screen Time. Connect your focus target to something you chose, such as reading, studying or a project.

An active block is not proof that you stayed off your phone or completed the activity. Warden keeps recorded protection separate from measured app use and changes compared with your history.