Terms of use

Last updated: 1 October 2026

1. The service

Gatekeep is an iPhone app that locks the apps you choose and unlocks them for a limited time after a motivation session: reading, writing or training for a few minutes. Publisher: Flavien Verloo, sole trader registered in France, SIREN 944 196 617. Contact: flavien.build@gmail.com.

2. No account

Using Gatekeep requires no account, no email address and no sign-in. There are no credentials to protect and no account to delete: your data lives on your device and goes away with the app.

3. Subscription

• Gatekeep is available through an auto-renewing subscription bought with your Apple account. The applicable durations and amounts are shown in the app before any purchase, in your currency and for your country; the amount Apple charges you is the one that counts.
• The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. It is managed and cancelled in your Apple account settings (Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions).
• Restore purchase: if you change iPhone or reinstall the app, “Restore purchases” recovers your subscription from your Apple account.
• Refunds are handled by Apple, from the app or through reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple's terms.

4. Blocking and the Screen Time permission

Blocking relies on Screen Time (Family Controls) and needs you to grant that permission to iOS. You can withdraw it at any time in iOS settings, or turn protection off from inside the app: there is always a way out. If iOS stops honouring the permission, the app says so and offers to repair it.

5. What Gatekeep is not

Gatekeep is a self-discipline tool and a container for motivational content. It is not a medical device, not therapy, and not addiction treatment. If your phone use is causing you real difficulty, talk to a professional.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to misuse the service: no unauthorised access attempts, no reverse engineering, no fraudulent use of subscriptions.

7. Availability and liability

We do our best to make the app reliable, but it is provided “as is”, with no guarantee of continuous availability and no guarantee that blocking runs uninterrupted, since that depends on iOS. To the extent permitted by law, our liability is limited to the amount paid for the subscription over the last 12 months.

8. Changes

We may change the app and these terms; significant changes will be flagged in the app. The version in force is the one published at this address.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by French law. Any dispute falls to the competent French courts, subject to mandatory consumer protection rules.