AppBlockr
Unlock apps by completing tasks + AI photo verification
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Block your apps until you complete a real-world task and prove it with AI-powered photo verification. Earn your screen time while getting things done at the same time. Create your own tasks, complete them and unlock your apps once AI verifies your proof. Choose how you block apps, set custom schedules and track your screen time and progress. Built for people who want to stop doomscrolling, build better habits and spend less time on their phones by being productive.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
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
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Android
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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More like this: all 257 launches in distraction and screen time blockers →
Could you build this?
Yes The app uses platform Screen Time / Accessibility APIs (or FamilyControls on iOS) to block apps and sends user photos to a multimodal vision LLM API to confirm task completion.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 467 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #402 of 468 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
- Motive: Focus Tree App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Focus Lock · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- DrillLock · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- RepUnlock · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Do It First · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Time Recovery · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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