Scroll Less
Getting your attention back from the feed, with no guilt trip and no villain.
Coming soon on iPhone
Read 5 minutes of motivation to unlock your apps.
Gatekeep locks the apps you lose hours in. To open them, you read, write or train for five minutes first. Finish, and you get fifteen minutes of screen time.
You don't want to delete TikTok. You want your phone to stop dragging you down.
How it works
One rule, and it never moves.
No schedule to set, no window to plan. You want to scroll, so you do your motivation first.
- 1
Your apps are locked
You choose the apps you lose time in. Open one and you meet the gate instead of the feed.
- 2
You read before you scroll
A few lines chosen for what you're working on: a quote, an affirmation, a reminder of why you started.
- 3
Your apps open
Five minutes done, fifteen minutes of screen time. When the window closes, the gate comes back.
5 minutes of motivation = 15 minutes of screen time
What the research says
42%less daily scrollingThat is what researchers measured when they put a reminder of people's own goal in front of Facebook.
What you read
Six categories. You pick, nothing is guessed for you.
No algorithm, no invisible personalisation. You choose what you want more of, and that is what Gatekeep serves.
Work & Productivity
Starting the thing, finishing the thing, and not letting the day disappear.
Personal Growth
Becoming the person you keep telling yourself you'll be.
Calm & Mindfulness
One slow minute before the noise starts again.
Hard Times
For the days that are simply hard, without pretending they aren't.
Relationships
The people you actually want to be present for.
Three ways to do your five minutes
Reading is not the only way through the gate.
The format is drawn for you, and the other two are always one tap away, so nobody is stuck with the one they can't use where they are.
Read
Cards you move through, each asking one small thing of you. Never a second feed to scroll.
Write
A few short prompts. Type them, or say them out loud and let the phone write.
Train
A short lesson of micro-exercises, the way a language app teaches you a verb.
Hard mode from day one: leave the session and the timer pauses. Waiting unlocks nothing.
Why Gatekeep
A blocker you don't have to trust blindly.
What you block never leaves your phone
Gatekeep uses Apple's Screen Time. The apps you choose are held as tokens that cannot be read back into names, so they go nowhere, to nobody, us included.
No account, no email, no sign-in
There is nothing to create and nothing to log into. Your settings, your streak and anything you write stay on the device.
Hard mode, on purpose
No daily skip, no five-more-minutes. You can always turn protection off in your own settings. But there is no shortcut that keeps the gate and dodges it.
Before you scroll, remember who you're becoming.
Gatekeep opens on iPhone soon. Leave your email and you'll hear about it once.