Distraction Free
Local, open-source content blocker for macOS + Android
Details
- External ID
- 1254601
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Distraction Free
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Privacy, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Blocks porn, gambling, piracy, and VPN/proxy bypass always-on, plus social media (Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube) on a schedule — hard-blocked 8pm-9am, open the rest of the day with a manual toggle. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger stay exempt. Runs entirely on-device: no backend, no account, no telemetry. Built it because browser extensions are too easy to click off — this blocks the whole device. The "disable" button is a deliberate 24h countdown that never finishes. Free and open source.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source content blocker for macos and android users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building cross-platform system-level blocking on both macOS and Android requires OS-level networking hooks (NetworkExtension, Android VpnService/Accessibility APIs) that resist circumvention.
What it would actually take: The solution requires native Swift/macOS development using System Extensions / NetworkExtension (Content Filter Provider) and an Android app utilizing local loopback VPN or Knox/Device Owner APIs to enforce hard blocks without leaks. Developers need deep systems-level knowledge of OS networking stacks, packet inspection, and bypass prevention techniques.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 229 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- CallFirst · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran daily · hn · 2026-01-25 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran daily · hn · 2026-01-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- LockedWeb - Porn Blocker · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Focus Tycoon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HyperSleep · ph · 2026-06-12 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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