Sanctum: Screen Time Blocker

Name: Sanctum: Screen Time Blocker
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Clovinyx

By: Clovinyx App

Focus, App Blocker, Sleep

Overview

Version:

0.1.5

Last updated: 2026-09-03

Ranking

#568,641 ▼ 1,302

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Transport yourself to the world's most relaxing screen time app. Gain back the 5 to 6 hours you lose daily. Lock your phone, focus, build good habits. No way out.

Two months. That's what four hours of screen time a day costs you every year. Sanctum takes it back. Start a session and your phone locks. No pause. No snooze. No "five more minutes." There is no button that lets you back in.

Most app blockers leave an easy back door. A skip. An "extra time" unlock. So the scroll always wins, because it always can, in one tap. Sanctum has no free exit. Leaving early takes a short mindful practice first. Weakness is never one tap away.

WHY THE COMMITMENT MATTERS

Willpower fails when you need it most. Cutting screen time is a decision your phone makes you re-take every minute. Sanctum moves the choice to before the session, then holds the line.

HOW IT WORKS

Choose a duration. Press start. Sanctum will block apps system-wide until the timer runs out. Leaving early means completing a short reflection first, and by then the urge has usually passed. No categories, no decisions once you begin. It is the simplest way to block apps you will ever use.

BLOCK APPS ON AUTOPILOT

Beyond one-off sessions, Sanctum can block apps and cut screen time on its own:

Schedules. Block apps automatically on the days and hours you choose. Work mornings, study blocks, sleep.
Daily App Limits. Set app limits that cap screen time on the apps you pick. Shared budget or one each. When the time runs out, they close until midnight.

SOCIAL MEDIA SCREEN TIME, HANDLED

Social media is engineered to beat your willpower. Block social media for a session, put social media behind daily app limits, and your screen time falls without a fight.

BUILD BETTER PHONE HABITS

Every session and every urge resisted scores five traits: Stillness (time off the phone), Discipline (sessions kept), Restraint (wanting the phone, not grabbing it), Grounding (time with people, not screens), and Breath (slow breaths that reset the nerves). Watch them rise as your screen time falls.

WHEN AN URGE HITS

Reach for a blocked app and Sanctum meets you with a moment, not a wall: a short practice. Sit in stillness, breathe it out, walk it off, or write the urge down and watch it burn. By the time it is done the pull is usually gone, and the stress with it.

YOU'RE NEVER TRAPPED

Calls, the camera and the essential system apps iOS protects keep working, so you can reach someone anytime. Sanctum adds friction to a habit, never a lock on your life.

BEAUTIFUL LIVING THEMES

Sanctum is built to be experienced: Nature, Universe, Ocean, Serene, Sunset, Midnight. Each theme transports you into an immersive natural world, with a large ambient clock that helps calm the mind. During a screen time session your phone becomes a beautiful desk clock, not a thing to escape.

WHO IT'S FOR

Anyone whose focus is stolen by social media and doomscrolling
ADHD and executive-function struggles, where "just put it down" never works
Students, founders and remote workers with no one to hold the line but themselves
Anyone whose screen time keeps climbing no matter which app blocker they try

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Offline-first. No account, no sign-up, no cloud. Sanctum is built on Apple's own Screen Time framework, and your screen time data never leaves your device.

FEATURES

Uncompromising system-wide screen time blocker. No pause, no snooze, no one-tap exit
Block apps for a session, on a schedule, or behind daily app limits
Hard Mode: the strictest app blocker setting, sealed until the timer ends
Block social media on the days and hours you set
Cap screen time per app with shared or individual app limits
Streaks, medals and five traits that track your progress
Live Activity: session countdown right on your Lock Screen

Sanctum is the screen time app for people done negotiating. Block apps, set daily app limits, tame social media, and watch your screen time finally drop.

Not just an app blocker. Your sanctuary from your screen.

Learn more at https://sanctum.clovinyx.io

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Clovinyx

Rating:

5.00

(3)

Version:

0.1.5 Last updated: 2026-09-03

Version code:

890732733

Creation date:

2026-08-07

Compatible devices:

Size:

120.75MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-19

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Ranking

# 568,641 ▼ 1,302

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Developed by:

Clovinyx

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sanctum-screen-time-blocker/id6796927209

Website:

https://sanctum.clovinyx.io

User Reviews

My screen time was 6h20m a day. It’s down to about 2h40m now, and most of that is maps and music. I work hybrid, so my phone sits right next to my laptop all day. Instagram and TikTok used to win that fight every single time. What made this one stick is that there’s no way out mid-session. No pause, no snooze, no “five more minutes.” You set the timer and that’s the deal. If you genuinely need out early, you have to sit through a short exercise first, and by the time that’s done, the urge has passed and I just put the phone down. The schedules do most of the work now. 9 to 12 is blocked on office days, so I finish real work before lunch. 7 to 9 is blocked at home, so evenings go to my family instead of a feed. Reels and X have a daily cap, so they shut themselves off. During emergencies, the important apps for communication still works! It also doesn’t guilt you with minutes. It tracks stillness, restraint, discipline, grounding and breath. Watching restraint climb felt like actual progress. More exercise screens would be nice to see in future enhancements. But for a doom scroller like me, this one works great.

by DA*****, 2026-08-09

I've deleted about five focus apps before this one, because every single one had a skip button. I'd tap it and be back on Reels in a second. Sanctum has no skip. Pick a duration, press start, and that's it. No pause, no snooze. I still get the urge. That part hasn't gone away, and I still reach for the phone without thinking. But instead of the app opening, Sanctum shows a block screen that makes you stop and do one short thing first. Most times, by the end of it, I don't want to open the app anymore. The part I didn't expect to like is that Sanctum doesn't count minutes. It tracks five things: stillness, restraint, discipline, grounding and breath. So instead of feeling bad about my screen time, I can see restraint going up, because I wanted the phone and didn't grab it. That framing worked on me. The themes are beautiful too. They move, and the whole app changes colour with them, so the phone just sits there looking like a nice clock. I'd like more block screens, and the lifetime price feels steep. Everything else is solid. Three weeks with Sanctum and still using it.