Warden
App limits you can’t casually undo
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Warden is an iPhone app blocker that helps you stick to your limits. In Warden mode, someone you trust approves requests for extra time. Lockdown blocks ordinary early unlocks and changes to an active rule. Usage intelligence looks at your Screen Time patterns and suggests which apps to limit and for how long. You choose what to apply.
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PH · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
Similar launches
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Partial The blocking rules and approval UI are vibe-codeable, but enforcing app limits on iOS depends on Apple's Family Controls and DeviceActivity frameworks, which need a native Swift build, a special entitlement, and deep platform knowledge.
What it would actually take: Build a native SwiftUI app using FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity, plus a backend for trusted-approver requests and sync. The hard parts are Apple's restricted entitlement approval, which can block distribution, and reliably enforcing lockdown against user workarounds. Expect iOS platform expertise and App Store review navigation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 300 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 301 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- 67: app blocker · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Kept · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- attention awareness · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Limitly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Indistractable · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Circuit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Impedo: Insistent App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Calma · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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More details
- External ID
- 1272666
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Warden
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- All tags
- iOS, Productivity
- AI summary
- strict app blocker for digital wellness
- Manually corrected
- No