Everloom vs Covenant Eyes
Covenant Eyes has been helping adults fight for purity since it was founded in 2000.[2]
It pioneered internet accountability: you choose someone you trust, and periodic screenshots of your activity, blurred and screened by AI, are shared with that ally so the two of you can have honest conversations. It costs $18 a month or $198 a year, and for the job it was built for, it is genuinely good.[1]
Raising kids is a different job. A young child does not need an accountability partner reviewing screenshots. They need harmful content blocked before it loads, a parent who can see the week’s patterns, and a home where the conversation stays open. That is the job Everloom was built for: block early, watch patterns, talk often. No screenshots required.
What Covenant Eyes does better
If you are an adult who wants a trusted ally walking with you through a real fight, their model is the standard, refined over two decades. We do not offer anything like it, and we do not intend to.
Covenant Eyes grew out of conviction, not a market analysis. The courses, books, and recovery community around it are real, and many churches and counselors have trusted it for years.
Accountability sees the screen itself, so it can surface things a category filter never would. For an adult who has chosen that visibility, it is the point.
Where Everloom is different
Everloom assumes the person being covered is a child whose habits are still forming. The goal is prevention and good conversations, not confession and repair.
We never capture what is on a screen. Everloom reads category-level patterns at the network layer and never sees content, messages, or images.
Every Sunday a short digest shows what changed, with a few good questions for the dinner table. You guide from patterns, not from evidence.
One subscription covers every kid and device in the house, with per-device protection that follows phones to school and back.
Side by side
| Feature | Everloom | Covenant Eyes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 a month on the annual plan, or $17.99 month to month. One price for the whole family. | $18 a month, or $198 a year[1] |
| Free trial | 15 days | 30 days[1] |
| How it protects | Per-device filtering on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and Windows, plus an optional one-time router change that covers TVs and consoles | Accountability: periodic screenshots, blurred and AI-screened, are shared with a trusted ally[1] |
| Always-on VPN required | No | — |
| Reads your kid’s texts and DMs | Never | Not read directly, though screenshots can include whatever is on screen[1] |
| Screenshots of your kid’s screen | Never | Yes. Screen captures are the heart of the accountability model, blurred and AI-screened[1] |
| What you see | Weekly patterns by category, plus a Sunday digest | Activity reports shared with the ally each person chooses[1] |
| Coverage-drop alerts | Yes. If coverage drops on a device, you hear about it | — |
| Weekly conversation guidance | Yes. Weekly guidance from your family’s category patterns, plus dinner-table questions | The ally relationship itself is the guidance: honest conversations between adults |
| Works alongside Apple Screen Time and Google Family Link | Yes. They are free and good at limits; we cover what they cannot see | — |
| Per-app minute tracking | No, on purpose. The built-in free tools do minutes well | — |
Rows marked — are details we could not verify ourselves, so we would rather you confirm them with Covenant Eyes than have us guess.
Who should choose what
Choose Covenant Eyes if you are an adult who wants accountability for yourself, or someone in your home has chosen that walk with a mentor they trust.
Choose Everloom if you are covering your kids’ devices and want harmful categories blocked everywhere, weekly patterns, and conversation help, without anyone’s screen being captured.
Many of the families Covenant Eyes serves are families like yours. If their tool is carrying someone you love through a hard fight, keep it. Protection for your kids and accountability for an adult are not in competition; plenty of homes quietly run both.
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Sources
- Covenant Eyes pricing, trial, and Screen Accountability description. https://www.covenanteyes.com/pricing/ (accessed June 2026).
- Covenant Eyes, about page ("Founded in 2000"). https://www.covenanteyes.com/about/ (accessed June 2026).