Cooked focus lock
Lock your apps. Unlock only with friend text approval.
Details
- External ID
- 1259582
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cooked focus lock
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Task Management
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Tired of wasting hours doomscrolling while your productivity hits rock bottom? Meet Cooked—the ultimate peer-pressure screen time blocker. No annoying sign-ups. No complex setups. Just instant app locking that forces you to lock in. Here is how it works: 💀 Instantly lock your distracting apps. 🤝 The catch? The ONLY way to unlock them is to text your best friend and beg for their permission to get back in. 🚀 Zero loopholes, zero bypasses—just pure accountability powered by your squad.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- app blocker unlocked via friend approval
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic web UI or webhook receiver is simple, but an iOS/Android system-level app locker requires native OS Screen Time / DeviceActivity framework integrations and strict Apple entitlements.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/SwiftUI using Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks to reliably block target apps. The primary bottlenecks are getting Apple's strict Screen Time API entitlement approvals and building a reliable headless SMS/webhook verification backend that can remotely trigger DeviceActivity shield removals via push notifications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 184 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #103 of 185 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- AppBlockr · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Indistractable · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- D.off · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Donera: Screen Time Control · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- literally Strict Focus Launcher · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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