NekoLock
A cat blocks your doomscroll — literally
Details
- External ID
- 1248174
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- NekoLock
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Android, iOS, Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Open a distracting app, and a cat appears. NekoLock is a gentle app blocker that adds a small pause before mindless scrolling — instead of relying on willpower alone, it helps you stop and decide if you really want to continue. Pet the cat to unlock: 5/10/15 min free, or customize 1–60 min with a cooldown on Plus. Meet different cats, build affinity, and review your habits in a usage report. No account required.
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
- screen time blocker with cat animations for smartphone users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A cute cat UI and basic timer logic is trivial, but building a system-level app blocker on iOS and Android requires strict native OS permission frameworks that standard vibe coding often struggles with.
What it would actually take: The application must be implemented natively in Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android). On iOS, it must strictly use Apple's Screen Time API (FamilyControls, DeviceActivity, and ManagedSettings frameworks), which has stringent entitlements and sandboxing; on Android, it requires Accessibility Services and UsageStatsManager permissions to monitor and intercept foreground package changes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Curtail · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Daily Cat Escape · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Doomless: Block & Limit Shorts and Reels · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ShieldBrain Reels Counter App · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- UnRot · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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