ScrollPause
A pause screen before the app you didn't mean to open
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Details
- External ID
- 1264217
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ScrollPause
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Health
Description
Pick the apps that pull you in. Next time you open one, ScrollPause shows a pause screen first: which app, what time, do you really want to? Tap "I'll pass" and it closes. PIN lock, quiet hours, weekly summary. No account, no data leaves.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ad and digital distraction blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pause screen app for mindless phone scrolling
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes On iOS this can be achieved using the Screen Time API (FamilyControls / ManagedSettings), and on Android via Accessibility Services or UsageStatsManager, both of which are standard platform APIs well within AI-assisted coding reach.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 422 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #208 of 423 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 254 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Lessly · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ScrollLess · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Curfew · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- oneTap: Brief & Block · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Timetide · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52