CatchScroll
Blockers lock apps. CatchScroll retrains your focus.
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Most of the time, we reach for our phone because we feel bored, stressed or stuck, not because of a notification. Blockers lock the app, but the feeling stays, so we find another distraction. CatchScroll calms the urge to scroll and retrains your focus.
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PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Partial The behavioral guidance logic is simple, but intercepting mobile app launches to replace them with focus exercises requires low-level mobile OS APIs.
What it would actually take: On iOS, this requires deep integration with the Screen Time and FamilyControls / ManagedSettings frameworks, which have strict Apple entitlement approval requirements. On Android, it necessitates Accessibility Services or UsageStatsManager implementations that handle tricky background service lifecycles and manufacturer battery-optimization killing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 397 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 398 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- FocusPass: App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Blocklyn: App & Site Blocker · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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