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This is for the people who want to feel alive. Between the kids, the job, and the group chat, your attention is stolen every 60 seconds. Research shows we lose 231 hours of sleep a year just from scrolling in bed. Essence locks your most addictive apps until you've shown up for yourself first. Morning ritual. Nightly wind-down. Powered by Apple's Screen Time, so the lock is real. Your life is happening. Don't miss it.
PH · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: mindfulness and wellness apps · 230 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▲ +8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Healthcare
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Health & Fitness
- Meditation
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More like this: all 230 launches in mindfulness and wellness apps →
Could you build this?
Partial The mindfulness and habit features are simple, but reliably locking other apps on iOS requires Apple's restricted Screen Time / Family Controls framework, which requires special Apple entitlements and strict device-level APIs.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift development integrating Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks to shield and unshield apps based on device triggers. Obtaining Family Controls entitlement distribution from Apple requires manual review and approval. The rest of the stack consists of standard SwiftUI, CoreData/SwiftData for local encrypted storage, and EventKit for Apple Calendar sync.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 819 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 820 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- HyperSleep · ph · 2026-06-12 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SETL: Focus on Life by Less Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Time Recovery · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Connections – Sleep Mode · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Dawnova: Morning Sunlight · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sleep Session · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Stay Awake · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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