Bible Lock holds your worst apps shut until you read, pray, or sit still for a minute. Seven minutes a day. That is the entire ask.
This is what TikTok looks like at 10pm once the guard is on.
Three decisions at setup, then the app never asks you for anything again — it just stands in the doorway of the apps you told it to stand in.
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — whichever ones take the most from you. Each row shows your own daily minutes, so the list argues for itself.
The hours you want protected. A morning guard before the day gets loud, a night guard before the scroll takes the evening.
Open a guarded app and the shield meets you instead. Read a verse, pray, or sit still — then it opens. Every task fills your cross.
Every screen below is the real thing — the same markup the app ships. Three ways through the door; you pick which one the guard asks for.
500 light fills the cross. A full cross is a day that counted — and a missed day simply starts empty. There is no debt to pay back, only a day to fill.
Everything Bible Lock does happens inside other apps, so home has no job beyond showing where today stands: the week so far, the light you have earned, and when the guard runs next.
“I did not want another app telling me off. This one just does not let me in until I have read something. That is it. It worked in a week.”
“The verse arrives on its own, with nothing to tap for a beat. It stopped feeling like a toll booth and started feeling like the point.”
“Forty seconds between me and Instagram turns out to be enough. Most nights I put the phone down instead.”
Put the guard on tonight. Tomorrow morning, the first thing your thumb reaches for will ask you for a verse instead.
Requires Screen Time access on iOS. Bible Lock never sees what you do inside an app.