Held — Your time, protected
AI locks your phone and negotiates when you cheat
What it does
Held isn't another screen time app. It's an AI companion that guards your time. Tell it "protect my mornings for deep work" — it understands, creates a ritual, and locks ALL apps automatically. Try to open Instagram? Held shows you why you started. Want to break out? You'll have to type "I am breaking my commitment" — and your accountability partner gets notified. Voice-first, zero configuration, AI-powered. You don't set timers. You have conversations. Your phone finally fights back.
Does the same job
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When we were kids, adults were always setting boundaries and keeping us on task. We thought this was annoying and relished the day when we'd grow up and get to do whatever we want. And here we are with that freedom only to find it's not that simple. We try to stay off our phones but we keep picking it up in the bedroom costing us our sleep and making us late. We need to break through task paralysis but we end up waiting until the last minute instead. Now we realize how privileged we were to have someone on the outside keeping us in check. We try to solve the problem by beating ourselves up,…
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