Updated August 2026
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Covenant Eyes has done screen accountability longer than anyone and does it well. The thing worth thinking hardest about isn't the software — it's who you're asking to read those reports.
Covenant Eyes has been doing this for over two decades. Its core idea is simple and powerful: your screen activity is monitored, and a trusted ally — a friend, mentor, or spouse — receives reports of anything concerning. Knowing someone will see changes the moment of decision for a lot of people. It covers phones and computers alike, one plan covers the whole family's devices, and there's a large faith-based community and resource library behind it, which for many users is exactly the support they want.
Roughly $18/mo or about $198/yr as of mid-2026 — check their site
Covenant Eyes is accountability software, not a recovery companion. It can tell your ally what happened on your screen, but it doesn't walk you through a daily program, sit with you through an urge, or give you something to open when you're shaking at 2am. It also requires an ally who's willing and able to receive those reports — not everyone has that person yet.
The faith-centered framing is a genuine strength for many and simply not a match for others. And it's a real monthly cost, with no free tier.
The whole model rests on an ally. For most people that ally is a spouse. So think about what that actually asks of them: they open a report about your worst moments, on a schedule, forever. They are handed the role of watchman over the thing that hurt them most. And no report has ever once asked how they are holding up.
That's the gap this app was built into. There is a whole private side for the partner — their own daily lessons on trust, boundaries and their own anger, their own journal, and a 30-day programme the two of you work through together, ten minutes a night, with a shared day count and nothing else crossing over. You never read their journal. They never read yours. It's repair, not surveillance.
On your side: an SOS screen for the moment, breathing and grounding tools, six narrated voices for when you can't read, and thirteen tracks rather than one — because for most people it was never only the screen.
Free, forever. Every lesson, every tool.
Try it free On Android? Get it on Google Play I’m here because of someone I love →Pick Covenant Eyes if you have a willing ally who is not the person you've hurt — a mentor, a sponsor, a friend from church — and the faith-based framing is what you want around this. In that setup it's excellent, and two decades of doing it shows.
Pick this if the only realistic ally is your spouse. Making them your monitor and making them whole are different projects, and this one is built for the second.
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