The short answer#
Both are accountability products, not blockers by default. Each monitors activity across your devices and sends what it finds to a person you choose. Neither shows your data to nobody, and neither claims to.
What each one actually does#
Covenant Eyes takes screenshots of your screen, by design, across iOS, Mac, Android and Windows, and sends them to your nominated ally. That mechanism is stated plainly in their own marketing.
Ever Accountable monitors internet activity across devices and sends activity reports to an accountability partner you assign, with no limit on how many partners can receive them on one account. Their own pricing page lists “Screenshot accountability” as an included feature, alongside the reports, but does not publicly detail exactly what a partner sees. Both products also offer optional content filtering (Android and iOS, at no extra cost for Ever Accountable), and both say plainly that filtering alone is not the point: the deterrent is knowing a person will see the report.
Ever Accountable vs Covenant Eyes#
| Ever Accountable | Covenant Eyes | |
|---|---|---|
| Sees your activity | Your chosen partner(s), unlimited | Your nominated ally |
| Screenshots | Listed as a feature, mechanics not detailed | Yes, explicitly, by design |
| Built around | One monitored person | Up to 10 users on one family plan |
| Blocking / filtering | Optional, Android and iOS | Yes, device-level |
| AI on your data | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Monthly price | $14.99 | $18 |
| Annual price | $129 (~$10.75/mo) | $198 |
| Lifetime option | None | $950 |
| Free trial | 14 days | None (pay first) |
| Money-back window | Up to 90 days | 30 days |
Pricing and guarantees#
Checked on both companies' own pricing pages, 14 August 2026. Ever Accountable is $14.99 a month or $129 a year (about $10.75 a month), with a 14-day free trial and a stated 90-day money-back guarantee. Covenant Eyes Victory is $18 a month, $198 a year, or $950 for a lifetime licence, with a 30-day money-back guarantee rather than a free trial: you pay first, then can be refunded within 30 days.
The lifetime option is the one real structural difference. If you want to pay once and be done, only Covenant Eyes offers that. If you want to try before paying anything, only Ever Accountable does.
Who each is built for#
Neither is a wrong choice. They are built for different shapes of situation.
Covenant Eyes fits a family or group where several people need monitoring under one plan: up to 10 individual users, unlimited devices, and a community and course library alongside the monitoring itself. If a parent is setting this up for a household, that structure matters more than the $4 a month difference.
Ever Accountable fits one person who wants several eyes on it: unlimited accountability partners on a single-user plan, a real free trial before paying anything, and a longer refund window if it turns out not to help. If you are setting this up for yourself and want a pastor, a friend and a spouse all seeing the same report, this is the shape built for that.
The third option#
Both of the above work by the same underlying mechanism: a person other than you reviews what you did. For a lot of people that is exactly the thing that works, and if it is you, buy one of them rather than us.
Firmhold is built for the other case: you will not be fully honest if someone is watching, or you have nobody you want to nominate, or nominating someone would create a bigger problem than the one you are solving. Instead of a person reviewing your activity, Firmhold asks you to log a relapse or a survived urge yourself, computes the pattern behind it with fixed rules on our own servers once there is enough data to be honest, and shows the result to nobody but you. Core logging, the calendar, daily risk status and the panic button are free with no card; $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year unlocks the pattern engine itself.
All three, side by side#
| Firmhold | Ever Accountable | Covenant Eyes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sees your activity | Nobody | Your partner(s) | Your ally |
| Core mechanism | Finds the pattern behind your urges | Reports activity to partners | Reports activity to an ally |
| Blocking | No | Optional | Yes |
| AI on your data | None, ever | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Free tier | Yes: logging, calendar, daily risk, panic button | 14-day trial, not ongoing | No, 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Cheapest annual price | $99.99 | $129 | $198 |
The stats neither one sources#
Covenant Eyes advertises “Join 1.7 Million others.” Ever Accountable's homepage states, in three places with three different figures, that “95% of users report drastically reduced porn usage in just one month,” that 63% report zero use after one month, and separately that a “#1 app” statistics box states 70%. One section calls its findings “scientifically-backed.” None of the three numbers, on either company's site, comes with a sample size, a methodology, or a citation, checked 14 August 2026.
Firmhold is new and we have no results data of our own. We will not answer unsourced numbers with a number of our own. When we have real data, we will publish it and say where it came from. In the meantime, a fair habit when comparing any tool in this category is to check whether a percentage on its marketing page has a source attached.
Try Firmhold free
Logging, your calendar, daily risk status and the panic button are free, with no card. If you upgrade and it is not for you, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Start free, no card neededCommon questions#
Is Ever Accountable cheaper than Covenant Eyes?
On the listed prices, yes: $14.99 a month or $129 a year (about $10.75 a month) against Covenant Eyes Victory at $18 a month or $198 a year. Covenant Eyes also sells a $950 lifetime licence, which Ever Accountable does not offer at all.
Does Covenant Eyes vs Ever Accountable come down to price alone?
No. The bigger difference is who the plan is built around. Covenant Eyes covers up to 10 individual users on one family plan. Ever Accountable is built around one monitored person with unlimited accountability partners watching. Pick based on which shape matches your situation, not the price gap alone.
Do either of these use AI?
Neither advertises it. Covenant Eyes does not mention AI on its own product pages, and Ever Accountable does not mention it anywhere across its homepage, features page or how-it-works page, checked 14 August 2026.
Is there an alternative to both that does not report to another person?
Yes. Firmhold is built around the opposite premise: nobody sees your activity, including us. It computes patterns with fixed rules on our own servers instead of a human review, and it is a genuinely different product for a genuinely different situation, not a drop-in replacement for either.
Sources#
- Ever Accountable, pricing page, checked 14 August 2026: $14.99 monthly, $129 annual, 14-day free trial, refunds available up to 90 days.
- Ever Accountable, homepage and features page, checked 14 August 2026: activity reports to accountability partners, “Screenshot accountability” listed as a feature, optional Android/iOS filtering, no mention of AI anywhere on either page, and the unsourced 95%/63%/70% usage statistics.
- Covenant Eyes, Victory plan pricing page, checked 8 August 2026 and re-verified 14 August 2026: $18 monthly, $198 annual, $950 lifetime, 30-day money-back guarantee (not a free trial).
- Covenant Eyes published product description of its screenshot-and-ally mechanism across iOS, Mac, Android and Windows.
- Firmhold pricing and feature split as published on our own pricing page and enforced in the product.
Ever Accountable and Covenant Eyes are products of their respective companies. We are not affiliated with either, and this page is our own comparison rather than theirs. Everything stated about both products comes from their published material on the dates shown. Prices, trial terms and features change, so check both directly before deciding.