Regret prevention, by design

Your calm self
sets the rules.

Lock the apps you reach for on autopilot — decided in a calm moment, enforced later, even when you change your mind.

Latch is a personal app-locker built on your phone's own Screen Time controls. Not a focus tool — a commitment device for the version of you who plans ahead.

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How it works

Three steps between an impulse and giving in.

1

Pick your apps

Choose the apps you open without thinking. Latch never sees which ones — it works through your phone's own controls.

2

Set the lock

Once, on a schedule, a date range, or specific days each month. Your call, made while your head is clear.

3

Add friction to change your mind

Opening early means waiting it out, or slowly typing a passage by hand — no paste, no shortcuts. Enough of a pause to choose on purpose.

Most urges are loud, then gone in a few minutes. Latch just buys you that time.

You decide in a calm moment which apps to lock and for how long. Latch holds the line even when the moment gets loud — short of the deliberate, friction-ful ways out you set up yourself.

Four lock types — once, weekly, date range, monthly.
Your choice of exit — wait it out, type a passage, both, or no early exit at all.
Paste-blocked typing test — real typing, not a clipboard shortcut.
Non-judgmental by design — a reminder of your own decision, never a lecture.