I built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran daily
Details
- External ID
- 46759416
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Jan. 25, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.461133069828722
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I'm a solo developer from Nigeria. I built Quran Unlock - an app that blocks distracting apps (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) until you complete your daily Quran reading.The idea came from my own struggle with phone addiction. I wanted to read Quran daily but kept getting distracted. So I built this for myself, then shared it.Some stats after 2 months: - 123K+ users - 64.9% returning user rate - 31M events trackedTech stack: - React Native - Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Analytics, Cloud Messaging) - RevenueCat for subscriptions - iOS Screen Time API + Android UsageStatsApp Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/quran-unlock/id6754449406Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.quranu...Would love feedback from the HN community!
Enrichment
- Theme
- faith-based productivity and devotional tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- social media blocker with quran daily requirement
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard mobile screen-time/app-blocker utilizing iOS FamilyControls / Screen Time API or Android Accessibility/UsageStats APIs tied to reading progress tracking.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Quran app
Concerns raised: Play Store link broken/not found
Feature requests: Require specific app (like Quran) to be open for duration, not just timer running, Verify actual time spent on target app, not just elapsed time
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 150 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #73 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran daily · hn · 2026-01-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 1.00
- Distraction Free · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Quran Habit App · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- release version 2.0.1 · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PrayerShield · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- QuranKu · github · 2026-09-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Digital Carrot · hn · 2026-01-14 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hack · hn · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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