Kalma
Pause distracting apps. diconect Whastapp.
Details
- External ID
- 1246674
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Katla
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Messaging, Health
- Fetched at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Kalma lets you temporarily pause WhatsApp and other distracting apps while Maps, music, videos, browsing and the rest of your phone keep working. Schedule focus time, study without interruptions and disconnect from distractions — not from your life.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- app blocker for distractions
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Selectively blocking network traffic or notifications for a single third-party app (like WhatsApp) on mobile requires deep OS-level network extension/VPN permissions and restrictive system API access.
What it would actually take: On Android, this requires creating a local loopback VPN service (`VpnService`) to inspect IP packets and drop traffic specifically destined for WhatsApp servers, or using Device Policy Manager / Accessibility Services. On iOS, selective app blocking requires Apple's tightly guarded Screen Time API (`FamilyControls` / `ManagedSettings`) with special entitlement approval rarely granted outside strict parental control contexts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #69 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 160 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TOCus · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Dunya Pause · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hello Aria · ph · 2026-04-17 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Blocklyn: App & Site Blocker · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SleepSync · github · 2026-09-16 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
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