Victory Shield vs Hours Given
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Victory Shield
This app provides accountability and blocking features to help users overcome pornography. It offers screen accountability, explicit domain reporting, and customizable porn blocking to support a journey towards freedom from temptation.
- Screen Accountability™
- Explicit Domain Reporting
- Porn Blocking
- Customizable Block/Allow Lists
- YouTube Restricted Mode
- SafeSearch Enforcement
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Victory Shield™ is a core part of Victory by Covenant Eyes®, the best solution for Christians looking to break free from the temptation of explicit content. Over the last 25 years, we’ve walked with more than 1.7 million people on their journey. CLAIM VICTORY IN YOUR FIGHT TODAY Victory by Covenant Eyes is the relationship-first solution to shield your heart from temptation, defeat explicit content, and reclaim your life. Victory offers both free features to help anyone get started, as well as powerful accountability and protection tools exclusively for subscribers. ABOUT VICTORY SHIELD This app—Victory Shield—is a crucial addition for subscribers of Victory by Covenant Eyes, enabling powerful features like: * Screen Accountability™: Find freedom through transparency. With your permission, Victory Shield discreetly captures screenshots from your Safari browser and makes them available to your chosen ally through our Victory® app. We use fully encrypted data transfers and 256-bit AES-encrypted data storage to ensure your privacy. * Explicit Domain Reporting: Covenant Eyes reports explicit domains from any app on the device. This helps you stay accountable, even with hidden browsers. * Blocking: Protect your devices from explicit domains in any app. Customize your protection with a block and allow list. Optionally enforce YouTube Restricted Mode and device-wide Google and Bing SafeSearch. ABOUT VICTORY BY COVENANT EYES While the Victory Shield app is designed as a powerful subscriber-exclusive tool for people looking to overcome temptation, we have an additional app—the Victory app—that is designed for anyone to use and is the home base for free and paid features like: * Activity Feed & Check-ins: Stay accountable with device usage tracking and accountability prompts. * Learning + Mini Courses: Increase awareness of your triggers and the path toward healing with counselor-reviewed mini courses for men, women, spouses, allies, parents, and pastors. * Community Connection: The Community feature connects you to a supportive community where you can interact with like-minded individuals on your journey. Share about your journey or offer prayers and encouragement to others. The Victory App is free to use and can be found by searching for “Victory by Covenant Eyes” in the App Store. ACCOUNT REQUIRED This App—Victory Shield—requires a Victory Account. Don't yet have an account? No problem. Simply follow the onscreen prompts in the app to begin your free 7-day trial subscription. ABOUT US Covenant Eyes is the pioneer in accountability software. Since 2000, we've dedicated ourselves to helping people on their journey to overcome lust and temptation. Learn more about how Covenant Eyes helps save relationships and transform lives at https://www.covenanteyes.com. Terms of Use: https://www.covenanteyes.com/legal/end-user-license-agreement/ Privacy Policy: https://www.covenanteyes.com/legal/privacy-policy/
Hours Given
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Hours Given is a private time tracker and daily reflection journal for understanding where your hours actually went—without grading the day or pretending every minute is known. Start with Today. Track an activity in the moment, add past time, or reconstruct a day by typing or with on-device speech when available. Review one complete day at your pace, correct suggestions, and leave anything unresolved as Unknown. What Today Became shows an honest composition of the day. Then choose Tomorrow’s Anchor: one realistic part of tomorrow you want to protect. As reviewed days accumulate, Hours Given can show: • The Week You Made, with reviewed and open time kept distinct • Month and Year Life Fragments • Pattern Evidence and What Changed across aligned periods • Person-authored Life Chapters and evidence-grounded reflections you can accept, edit, reject, or defer • Archive search, raw export, and a human-readable report PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your primary archive stays on your device. Hours Given has no in-app account, ads, third-party tracking, remote analytics, or external AI service. Optional Calendar and Motion context is requested only after you choose it and never enters your record until you review and save it. Typed reconstruction and on-device speech reconstruction are separate paths. YOUR RECORD STAYS YOURS Correct entries, export raw data, delete saved reflections, restore purchases, or delete local data and any reachable private iCloud copy from inside the app. Local data remains primary, and backup conflicts require your choice. FREE AND PREMIUM Free includes the complete daily loop, your first seven days and current Week, the first evidence-grounded reflection, Tomorrow’s Anchor, personal activities, raw export, complete deletion, and purchase restoration. Premium adds repeated evidence-grounded reflections and cross-window synthesis, earlier Weeks, Month and Year views, Pattern Evidence, What Changed, new Life Chapters, extended history and search, and human-readable reports. Each newly reviewed day can expand the eligible evidence for future longitudinal reflections, comparisons, searchable history, and reports. Optional private iCloud backup is available without Premium when the signed container and the person's iCloud account are available and the archive has not used Apple Health or Motion evidence. It is a free data-protection control. Subscriptions renew unless canceled in your Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscription are available in the app. Hours Given measures allocation and intention—not productivity. Rest does not need to be justified. Unknown time can stay unknown. PRIVACY POLICY https://hoursgiven.com/privacy TERMS OF USE https://hoursgiven.com/terms SUPPORT https://hoursgiven.com/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Victory Shield at #36 against Hours Given's unranked. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Victory Shield sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Hours Given sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Victory Shield | Hours Given |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (59K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 27.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #36 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Covenant Eyes, Inc. | Mohamed Sow |
Bugs and requests
Victory Shield
Reported bugs
5 issues- VPN connection issues causing internet disconnection
- Browser freezes and crashes
- Inconsistent performance and loading times
- Inability to open links from other apps
- Incorrect or missing activity reporting
Requested features
5 requests- Seamless integration with iOS system
- Improved browser functionality and customization
- Better compatibility with other apps and websites
- Ability to selectively block or monitor apps
- Easier cancellation and subscription management
Hours Given
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Victory Shield
- Covenant Eyes Plan7 Days trial4 variants$19.991 Month
- Covenant Eyes Plan7 Days trial$22.491 Month
- Covenant Eyes Plan7 Days trial$23.991 Month
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- Covenant Eyes Plan7 Days trial2 variants$219.991 Year
Hours Given
- Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- Premium Annual$39.991 Year









