D.off
Screen time limits you unlock by writing a sentence
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D.off helps you break free from phone addiction without willpower. Set time limits per app group, and when you hit them, unlock by writing out a sentence — three on the free tier — or swap one for a 30-second exercise. That pause breaks the autopilot scroll. 70+ achievements, sleep lock (Premium), site blocking across six major browsers, and 7 languages. No ads. The sentence library ships inside the app, so unlocking works with no network.
PH · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
No Enforcing device-level app limits, hijacking app launches, and monitoring screen time requires native OS accessibility services on Android or the heavily restricted Screen Time / Family Controls APIs and MDM profiles on iOS.
What it would actually take: Building this requires native Swift/Kotlin code interacting with platform-specific restriction frameworks (Apple's Screen Time / FamilyControls API or Android's AccessibilityService and UsageStatsManager). The hardest parts are getting Apple entitlements approved for FamilyControls, preventing OS-level task killing of background services, and creating an unkillable blocking overlay UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 820 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #716 of 821 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 247 days after the earliest competitor.
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Limitly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Tempo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ChoiceField · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Time Recovery · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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