Disciplines: App Blocker
Screen time blocking that's tied to your tasks and habits
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Disciplines connects screen time blocking to your actual tasks, habits, and goals, so distraction management is tied to your own routine instead of being a standalone toggle. Set up tasks, build habit streaks, run focus timers, and let app blocking back up the plan instead of fighting it. An analytics page shows where your time actually goes over days and weeks, not just today. Built solo as an iOS app, meant to give you something concrete to redirect to instead of just another lock screen.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 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
- iOS
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial While the task tracking and habits UI is trivial to build, building reliable, OS-level screen time blocking requires specialized native mobile platform APIs and strict system permissions.
What it would actually take: On iOS, this requires Apple's Screen Time API (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, DeviceActivity frameworks), which requires special developer entitlements from Apple and native Swift development. Android requires an AccessibilityService or DevicePolicyManager implementation, handling background service persistence and aggressive OEM battery optimizations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 822 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #711 of 823 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Motive: Focus Tree App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Focus Lock · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Slow Time Club · ph · 2026-11-10 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- AppBlockr · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Recess: Stop Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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