Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling
Pause before you scroll. Open apps with intention.
Details
- External ID
- 1226569
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Android, Health & Fitness, Productivity, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Stop Me becomes the entry point to the apps that steal your attention. Before Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, or any app you choose opens, Stop Me asks why you're entering and how long you need. Choose a purpose, start a session, and use the app normally. When the session ends, the next open becomes a decision again. It's built to stop mindless app use and doomscrolling without forcing you to quit useful apps.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- app usage blocker for intentional use
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Intercepting and delaying third-party app launches requires deep native OS hooks (Android AccessibilityService/UsageStatsManager and iOS FamilyControls/DeviceActivity frameworks) that have severe platform restrictions and complex approval processes.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS. On Android, it needs an AccessibilityService or foreground service monitoring UsageStatsManager and drawing overlays (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) dynamically before the target activity gains focus. On iOS, it requires Apple's restricted Screen Time API (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, DeviceActivityMonitor), which mandates specialized Apple developer entitlements, private framework knowledge, and strict background execution limits.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Doomless: Block & Limit Shorts and Reels · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Snowscroll · hn · 2026-06-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- D.off · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Tempo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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