App Break
A gentle pause when your app limit is reached
Details
- External ID
- 1248160
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- App Break
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Set daily limits for distracting Android apps. When time is up, choose to stop for today or continue for five more minutes—without accounts or complicated blocking rules.
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
- screen time limiter for app usage
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard Android utility app using native UsageStatsManager and system overlay permissions to monitor app time and display a pause dialog.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 284 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #145 of 285 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- D.off · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ScrollSmack · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Ocular · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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