Essence
Your life is happening. Don't miss it.
Details
- External ID
- 1260445
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Essence
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- iOS, Health & Fitness, Meditation
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mindfulness and daily journaling app for individuals
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 319 (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 0.55
- Connections – Sleep Mode · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- D.off · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tempo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Noxora · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- WakeUp: Alarm Clock & Goals · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Donera: Screen Time Control · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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