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Silex: Stop Gambling

Silex blocks gambling on iPhone, 90 days programm

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Silex blocks gambling across your whole iPhone — every app and browser — and guides you through a 90-day CBT-based program, an SOS button for urges, and money-kept tracking. No account, no ads, nothing you write leaves your phone.

PH · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views

Niche: addiction recovery apps · 46 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Vertical SaaS
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Health & Fitness
  • Productivity
  • Lifestyle

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Could you build this?

Partial The 90-day CBT program and SOS tools are buildable, but blocking gambling across every iPhone app and browser depends on Apple's restricted Screen Time and Network Extension APIs and entitlements, and the clinical content needs expert review.

What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI app using the Family Controls and DeviceActivity frameworks, plus a content-filter or network extension for browsers, with the program content and logic stored on-device. The hard parts are obtaining Apple's entitlement approval, making the block hold up against bypasses, and getting CBT content reviewed by clinicians who know gambling addiction.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #23 of 246 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Clearing · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Recovo: Quit Gambling · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • OFFBET · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Quit All · ph · 2026-10-16 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • QuitPath · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • 67: app blocker · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Circuit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • FlashLock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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