Focus Tycoon
An app blocker that asks for a breath, not a lockout
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Open a blocked app and you meet a gate, not a wall. It asks for one breath, then you decide: hold still, or breathe a few cycles, and it opens for a few minutes. There is always an "I need this now" button, and it always works. Blocking is free here. Schedules, profiles, gate style, pass length. Forever. Around it: a focus timer, workouts, habits, breathwork, a free first-aid kit and a Nights room. Every focused minute draws a transit map. iPhone. Offline. No ads. Data stays on your phone.
PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
- Health
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Could you build this?
Partial Creating a calm UI with breathing timers is simple, but intercepting and gating app launches on modern mobile OSes (especially iOS FamilyControls/ScreenTime or Android Accessibility/UsageStats) requires nuanced native permissions and platform APIs.
What it would actually take: On iOS, this requires Apple's DeviceActivity, ManagedSettings, and FamilyControls frameworks, which require special developer entitlements from Apple and deep native Swift coding. On Android, it involves an AccessibilityService or UsageStatsManager combined with SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW overlays, both of which face severe Google Play restrictions and battery optimization edge cases.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 742 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #644 of 743 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
- FocusPass: App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Focus Lock · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Unhook: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Pause App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- tamatem · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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