Blocker
Block sites & apps on a schedule. No sign-up.
Details
- External ID
- 1139844
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Shieldly Ad Blocker
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Time Tracking
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
Description
Block distracting sites across every browser and your Mac apps. Start a session now or set a weekly schedule. Choose a lock mode, from a short pause to no quitting before it ends. Save blocklists and track focus hours, streaks, and blocked distractions. Works offline, no account. Your browsing stays on your Mac. Free for 7 days, then pay once: $29 for the first 10 licenses.
Enrichment
- Theme
- focus timers and task planners
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- schedule-based website and app blocker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The dashboard and scheduling UI are straightforward, but blocking websites system-wide across all browsers and preventing app launches/quitting on macOS requires OS-level permissions and system extension development.
What it would actually take: The application requires a native macOS app (Swift/Objective-C) leveraging the Apple Network Extension framework (NEFilterDataProvider) or pf/hosts modifications, combined with Accessibility APIs or Endpoint Security / Apple FamilyControls APIs to block application execution. This requires macOS native system programming and developer signing entitlements from Apple.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 375 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #62 of 376 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- Distraction Free · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- NetBlocker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Focus Tycoon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Focus Shield · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Circuit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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