Squirrel
An app blocker that pays you back
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Squirrel puts a price on the apps you open too much. Tap Instagram and you get a hard block, not a screen you can wave away. Want to check a DM? That's fine, but you have to open Squirrel, pick how long, and set aside a few dollars for yourself first. No money moves through the app. No card or bank account to connect. When you're ready, invest it in your own brokerage and tell Squirrel what you bought. It tracks your holdings with live prices.
PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 108 upvotes (top 1%) · 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
- Personal Finance
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More like this: all 257 launches in distraction and screen time blockers →
Could you build this?
Yes It utilizes standard iOS FamilyControls / ScreenTime APIs or Android Accessibility APIs to enforce app shielding, tied to a basic timer and local ledger logic.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 345 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 346 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- Curtail · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Latch · ph · 2026-10-18 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FlashLock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Motive: Focus Tree App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Scrapevia · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Tortoise Money · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Moat · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Kept · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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