Small pauses, real changes.

Gratitude Gate puts a small pause between your hand reaching for an app and that app actually opening. Not a blocker. A breath.

Pick the apps that tend to swallow your time. The next time you tap one, Gratitude Gate intercepts and asks you for one short thing: a sentence of gratitude, a slow breath, a quick mood check-in, or a reminder of who you want to be in this moment. Then it lets you through.

• Adaptive friction that escalates when you keep reaching for the same app.
• Rules engine with custom schedules, days of the week, and per-rule app targeting.
• Routine templates: bedtime wind-down, morning intention, work focus, weekend reset.
• Snooze, capped at two per hour per app.
• Strict mode that extends the lock if you keep trying to bypass it.
• Lock until 6 AM for the version of you that knows when to stop.
• Presence Chain milestones at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 200, and 365 days. A day counts if you logged a gratitude OR didn't reach for the gated apps.
• Weekly recap that pulls themes out of your reflections.
• Home-screen widget with your Presence Chain and today's pauses.
• Daily nudges at your chosen morning and evening hours.
• Plain-text export and one-tap delete-everything from Settings.
• Crisis classifier that routes you to support instead of unlocking, never unlocks on a flagged entry.

Default private. Your reflections live on your device in an encrypted Room database. Nothing is synced to a server unless you explicitly enable Cloud AI.

Analytics are categorical labels only (e.g. "gate_completed"), never your entry text. Off by default in Private mode. Full privacy policy.

Gratitude Gate is in pre-launch testing. The first public preview is coming soon to Google Play.

Want to know when it goes live? Email hello@gratitudegate.com with "waitlist" in the subject. No newsletter, no marketing. We'll send one note when the Play Store link is real, and that's it.

We don't show you how many minutes you wasted today. We don't shame you for the spike. We give you a small, honest pause in the moment, so the next thing you do is more yours.