Quietwhile
Focus on your Mac while your Discord call stays connected
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Details
- External ID
- 1278093
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Quietwhile
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Quietwhile guards apps and websites during focus blocks. Guard Screen hides selected apps while they keep running, so Discord calls can continue. Includes breaks and schedules. Native macOS 14+, local data, free during the early build.
Enrichment
- Niche
- distraction and screen time blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- focus utility for mac users on discord calls
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS productivity tool that leverages standard macOS Accessibility or Screen Time APIs to hide application windows on a timer.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #192 of 319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- QuietHint® · ph · 2026-09-17 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Audio Priority Bar · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Whisperto · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.