Pip: Screen Time Control
App Blocker & Focus Pet
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Pip is a little cloud who helps you put your phone down. Pick the apps that pull at you and start a focus session. Pip locks them until you're done and quietly gets on with its day. Finish, and you both get something for it. BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS • Lock social media, games and any app you choose while you focus • Built on Apple's Screen Time, so blocks hold even if you close the app • Need a break? Earn it with a few slow breaths or a quick memory game LIMIT YOUR SCREEN TIME
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PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
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Partial The gamified focus-pet UI is easy to vibe-code, but real app blocking depends on platform-specific OS APIs (iOS Screen Time/FamilyControls, Android Accessibility/usage access) that AI-assisted coding handles poorly and that often need platform approval.
What it would actually take: The UI and pet gamification can be built with React Native or Flutter. The hard part is native blocking: an iOS build needs the FamilyControls entitlement and a Screen Time extension, and Android needs an Accessibility or UsageStats service that survives OS restrictions. This takes native mobile experience and store-compliance work.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 464 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 465 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Quick Timeout · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Motive: Focus Tree App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Cooked focus lock · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Sundial · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54