Christian screen-time apps: what the App Store listings actually say

How this was put together, and what it is not

Nobody installed these apps. Every field below is the developer's own declaration to Apple, read from the App Store on 14 September 2026: the in-app purchase flag and the App Privacy labels come from each app's product page, the rest from Apple's public lookup API. That is a narrow claim on purpose. We would rather publish something we can prove than a hands-on review of 55 apps that nobody ran.

Two things the labels do not tell you. Data Not Collected is a declaration, not an audit - Apple does not verify it. And an app with in-app purchases is not automatically worse: some of these are one-time unlocks, some are subscriptions, and the listing flag does not distinguish them. Open the App Store page to see which.

Selection was by name: the app's own title has to say it is a screen-time, blocker, lock or focus product, not a Bible reader with a widget. That rule is mechanical, so it will have missed apps that describe themselves differently, and it may have included one or two that are really something else. The raw data, including the search terms, is in the repository this site is built from.

Ratings and "last updated" move daily. The figures above are a snapshot taken on 14 September 2026; if you are reading this much later, treat them as a starting point and check the listings yourself.