Fall back asleep.
Wake up better.
Malko blocks addictive apps at night and gently guides you back to sleep.
Download on the App Store
Malko blocks addictive apps at night and gently guides you back to sleep.
Download on the App Store
Most apps are punitive, blunt, or guess wrong. Malko is built around the moments light sleepers actually live in.
Light, posture, and steps tell Malko when you're up making coffee — and when you're horizontal scrolling. Effortless when you're up. Naturally resistant when you're not.
Malko trusts you on strike one. Asks you again on strike two. By strike three, it holds the line. Warm at first. Firm when it has to be.
Three wake-ups, four-out-of-ten sleep — the pattern shows itself. Not a logger. A correlation engine for your nights.
Plus: wind-down rituals, app blocking, timed activities, morning reflection.
can't put your phone down before bed? Malko's wind-down catches that too. Same app, one download.
Malko runs automatically during your sleep window — so when you wake up and reach for your phone, it's already protecting you.
Tell Malko when you sleep and pick a few calming apps that are okay to use — like Books, Kindle, or Calm.
You reach for your phone at 3am — but instead of Twitter or Reddit, Malko shows you timed breathing, meditation, or a calming read.
The timed activities are designed to wind you down, not keep you up. Most people drift off before the timer ends.
The questions people ask before they download. Short answers here, full guides on the blog.
Make the phone harder to reach than it's worth (charge it across the room), replace the scroll with a calmer wind-down, and automate a nightly cutoff so it isn't a decision you have to win every night. Malko handles the automatic part by locking distracting apps during your sleep window.
Read the full guideKeep the room dark, don't check the time, and skip the phone - light and scrolling wake your brain up. A slow breathing pattern, or getting up briefly for something calm if you're still awake after 20 minutes, helps you drift back off.
Read the full guideThe best one is the blocker you won't bypass at 3am. Look for automatic scheduling, sleep-safe exceptions, and blocking that's genuinely hard to override - which is exactly what Malko is built for.
Read the full guideBecause it's a soft limit - if you know your own passcode you can tap "Ignore Limit" and carry on. Malko adds real friction with a 3-strikes escalation and wake detection, so blocking actually holds when you're just scrolling.
Read the full guideMalko is free to download with optional in-app purchases, and it's private by design - everything runs on-device through Apple Screen Time, so your app choices and sleep data never leave your phone.
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You're a light sleeper. You wake up, you grab your phone, and the night is gone. Malko breaks that cycle — gently, every single night.
Download on the App Store
