cantscroll
automatically block apps on iphone when coding on mac
Details
- External ID
- 1249298
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- cantscroll
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub, Vibe coding
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
coding has changed forever with coding agents, but it has given rise to a new brainrot habit - doomscrolling while the agent runs. cantscroll automatically detects and blocks distracting apps on your iphone the moment an ai coding agent starts on your mac and unblocks them when it finishes. works with claude code, cursor, codex, antigravity and more. the mac agent is free; the iphone app does the blocking.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- app blocker for developers coding on mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a Mac process monitor and sync relay is simple, but achieving immediate app shielding on iOS requires navigating Apple's heavily restricted Screen Time framework and strict background execution limits.
What it would actually take: The solution requires a macOS daemon polling active processes, a low-latency push or WebSocket relay, and an iOS companion app using Apple's FamilyControls and ManagedSettings frameworks. Overcoming iOS background task throttling and securing the required FamilyControls developer entitlement from Apple requires platform-specific native development and regulatory approvals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- AppBlockr · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Indistractable · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Curfew · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Heeler · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Circuit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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