# Catholic DeVice: App Blocker — Prayer Lock for Screen Time > App blocker that enforces prayer before accessing designated apps. (iPhone/iPad app by Kingfisher Technologies LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catholic-device-app-blocker/id6761321350 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kingfisher Technologies LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1888887342) - Category: Lifestyle, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 5.00/5 from 3 App Store ratings - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 124 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-18 - Data updated: 2026-10-03 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catholic-device-app-blocker/id6761321350/reviews.md ## What is Catholic DeVice? Catholic DeVice turns the moment of temptation into a moment of prayer. Mark your vice apps, the occasions of sin, the doomscrolling traps. From then on, opening one is met by the Praywall: a full-screen toll of real Catholic prayer, enforced at the OS level. Pray it and a quiet countdown must pass before Amen lights. Once complete, the app opens for a timed window. Then the wall returns. Where other app blockers only subtract by empty friction, this Catholic prayer app substitutes. Every intercepted scroll becomes a Hail Mary, a psalm, a page of Augustine. Your worst habit becomes an occasion to pray. THE PRAYWALL • OS-level interception that works offline, survives reboots, and self-heals — a persistent wall, not a dismissible nag. • The toll knows the Church's calendar: the quiet countdown lengthens on Fridays and through Lent, and Friday Penance ships as a scheduled lockout, free. • Per-app daily limits, a daily intention gate, and Time Reclaimed — honest screen time math, not vanity numbers. THE TREASURY - real prayer, by the Church's own calendar • The Daily Rosary, novenas of Divine Mercy and the Sacred Heart, the Psalms, the Desert Fathers, Padre Pio, St. Thérèse's Little Way. Choose your path and assign to morning, midday, and evening. • Never AI-generated prayers. Every text comes from Scripture, the official liturgy, the saints and Church Fathers, or traditional prayers with centuries of use. • The Hours ring the Angelus at 6, noon, and 6 — and it becomes the Regina Caeli in Eastertide, because the app knows the season. THE BOOKSHELF — a reading room in your pocket • The Holy Gospels and Psalms (Douay-Rheims), The Imitation of Christ, the Baltimore Catechisms, Butler's Lives of the Saints, Guéranger's Liturgical Year, the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with the Summa Theologica, the Daily Missal, and Augustine's City of God among the premium titles. • Faithfully typeset on parchment: illuminated drop caps, a page you actually turn, candlelight night reading. Fully offline once downloaded. THE LITURGICAL YEAR • A stained-glass calendar, and the Proper of the Day: every feast, saint, and season in sectioned write-ups drawn verbatim from the classics. • Includes the traditional 1962 calendar — Septuagesima, Passiontide, and all. THE CLOISTER — scheduled silence • A Retreat locks your vices at once, no toll, no escape. Stay in your cell. • Recurring schedules guard work mornings, family dinners, Sundays. • And the Vow: seal your disciplines under wax, and they may be deepened but never loosened until the Vow releases the way you chose — a waiting period, an entrusted PIN, the charger… or the one way no other blocker offers: prayer. CUSTODY OF THE EYES Opt-in adult-content filtering with no toll attached — free. Protection, not a paywall. NO STREAKS, ON PURPOSE Streaks punish; we removed them. Days of Fidelity only accumulates. A missed day never resets what grace has built. Medals rest in the Reliquary. Celebrations are quiet. HONEST PRIVACY Which apps you open is detected on your device and never sent to our servers. Your prayer progress syncs to your account only if you create one. Anonymous analytics, no ads, never sold. FREE FOREVER: two vice apps on the Praywall, the full toll loop offline, Retreats and Friday Penance, free devotional paths and books, the Liturgical Year and Proper of the Day, Custody of the Eyes. Premium adds unlimited vice apps, recurring Cloister schedules, the Vow, and the premium library. Catholic DeVice is discipline you choose for your own phone — not a parental-control tool. Enter the cathedral. Let the wall stand between you and the scroll. Terms of Use: https://catholicdevice.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://catholicdevice.com/privacy ## Key features - OS-level prayer enforcement - Customizable prayer tolls - Offline functionality - Digital library of religious texts - Scheduled silence and vows - Adult content filtering ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Premium Monthly | $6.99 | per month | | Premium Annual | $39.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Premium Lifetime | $89.99 | one-time | ## Frequently asked questions about Catholic DeVice ### Does Catholic DeVice have ads? No, Catholic DeVice does not contain advertisements. The app is free to download and use, with optional in-app purchases for additional content or features. ### How does Catholic DeVice enforce prayer? Catholic DeVice enforces prayer at the OS level by displaying a full-screen 'Praywall' before allowing access to apps you've marked as vices. This wall requires you to complete a prayer before a timed window opens for the app. ### Can Catholic DeVice be used offline? Yes, Catholic DeVice's OS-level interception works offline, survives reboots, and self-heals, ensuring its persistence even without an internet connection. ### What kind of prayers are available in Catholic DeVice? Catholic DeVice offers a 'Treasury' of real prayers from Scripture, the liturgy, saints, and Church Fathers. Options include the Daily Rosary, novenas, Psalms, and prayers from figures like Padre Pio and St. Thérèse. ### What content is available in the 'Bookshelf' feature? The 'Bookshelf' provides offline access to a digital library of religious texts, including the Holy Gospels and Psalms (Douay-Rheims), The Imitation of Christ, Baltimore Catechisms, Butler's Lives of the Saints, and Augustine's City of God. ### Does Catholic DeVice track streaks? No, Catholic DeVice intentionally does not use streaks. Instead, 'Days of Fidelity' accumulate, and a missed day does not reset progress, focusing on grace built rather than punitive measures. ### What is the 'Cloister' feature in Catholic DeVice? The 'Cloister' feature allows for scheduled silence and enforced lockouts. This includes 'Retreats' to lock vices, recurring schedules for specific times like work or family dinners, and a 'Vow' feature to seal disciplines. ### Is Catholic DeVice suitable for all ages? Catholic DeVice is rated for ages 4 and up. It also includes an opt-in adult-content filtering feature called 'Custody of the Eyes' for added protection. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.12 — 2026-10-01 A personal code now opens Premium on the spot. Enter it under Settings, Have a Code?, and the full app is yours at once: unlimited vice apps, the Hours, the Cloister, the Vow and the whole Bookshelf. Small fixes underneath: an install that arrives from a Google search is no longer mistaken for a partner referral, and the app's own extensions now carry the right version number. As always, the Praywall stays free. Thank you for praying with us. ### 1.3.11 — 2026-09-23 Premium is read from your purchase itself, so opening the app and tapping Select Apps to Shield straight away never caps a subscriber at the free limit again. No more Restore Purchases. If the notification prompt does not appear during setup, the row now opens Settings so the praywall bell can ring. The rating invitation now appears once, at the milestone you have actually reached. Small repairs and steadier sync. ### 1.3.10 — 2026-09-23 Ready for iPhone Duo: the Bookshelf codex opens as a two page spread that fills the unfolded screen edge to edge, and runs full width on iPad. The praywall notification now rings a single bell strike instead of the full peal, and the peal itself is softer. A benefactors' stone behind the version line in Settings: names carved with each person's permission. Pray for them. A devotion's seal now ripens only after you have dwelt on the page, so a quick flip through never counts as prayer. Steadier sync and small repairs. ### 1.3.9 — 2026-09-21 Shielding a whole category, such as Social or Entertainment, now opens the Spiritual Toll the way individual apps do. Before this fix, the Begin the Toll button on those shields did nothing. When a toll opens a category, every app in that category unlocks together for your chosen window. The Vice List now explains this when you save a category and offers to choose apps one by one instead. ### 1.3.8 — 2026-09-17 Give a friend a month of Premium: your own gift code now lives under Settings, and a friend redeems it in the app. The Sanctuary now tells you when the bell is silenced. If notifications are off, the praywall cannot reach you, so the app shows a card and takes you straight to Settings. Rate the app from Settings or your Account, with a short thank-you at your 10th, 75th and 150th sealed prayer. Seasonal notices can now arrive as gentle local reminders without waiting for an update. Steadier sync: a slow server no longer marks progress as sent, and the app retries on its own. 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