FocusFlow
Your apps stay locked until your work is done
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FocusFlow locks TikTok, Instagram and anything else you pick. To unlock them, finish a task: add your own or pull assignments straight from Canvas, snap a photo of the work, and earn minutes back. When they run out, the apps lock again.
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PH · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
- Education
Similar launches
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Partial The task-and-timer logic and Canvas integration are straightforward, but truly locking apps on iOS and Android requires native OS entitlements and system APIs that vibe-coded prototypes often struggle to ship through app-store review.
What it would actually take: On iOS, use Apple's Screen Time APIs (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, DeviceActivity) which require a special entitlement from Apple; on Android, use Accessibility or UsageStats services with careful permission handling. Canvas LMS integration uses its REST API and OAuth. The hard parts are the platform-specific enforcement mechanics, App Store/Play policy compliance, and photo-based work verification (likely a vision model), which calls for mobile-native expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 316 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #153 of 317 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Waterbreak · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- AppBlockr · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Donera: Screen Time Control · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Calma · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Lock In - Focused Lifts · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- FocusPass: App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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More details
- External ID
- 1279398
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- FocusFlow
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- iOS, Productivity, Education
- AI summary
- conditional app blocker for focused work
- Manually corrected
- No