ZenFirst - One thing at a time.
Block apps on your phone until your routine is complete.
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ZenFirst blocks every app on your phone until your routine is complete. No shortcuts. No excuses. Unlike app blockers, ZenFirst doesn't just remove distractions — it replaces them with your routine: meditation, journaling, tasks. Unlike habit apps, ZenFirst doesn't send notifications you ignore. It takes over your phone until the work is done. Features: - Built-in: meditation, journal, tasks and more - Custom modules - Streak tracking - iOS & Android
PH · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
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
- Android
- iOS
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and habit routine flows are simple, but hard-blocking native mobile applications requires complex OS-level device management profiles or specialized system APIs.
What it would actually take: On iOS, this requires Apple's Screen Time API (FamilyControls and DeviceActivity frameworks) along with strict entitlement approvals from Apple. On Android, it requires AccessibilityServices or Device Admin APIs with careful foreground service management. The hard part is navigating Apple's restricted entitlements and platform-specific battery/kill policies to ensure reliable app blocking.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 842 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #88 of 843 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- FirstHabbit · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Pause App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Calma · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Time Recovery · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Focus Lock · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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