Hard No
Block distracting apps. Let a stubborn cat say no.
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Pick your distracting apps, choose how long, and hold to lock them. Hard No has no in-app cancel, pause, or early unlock. Try anyway and a stubborn cat makes jokes while the unblock button dodges your thumb. Hardcore Mode hides the countdown, too. No accounts, streaks, or dashboards. Your data stays on your phone. For iPhone, iOS 17+.
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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Partial The timer and app list UI are simple, but a real app blocker that can't be cancelled depends on platform-restricted APIs (iOS Screen Time entitlements, Android accessibility or usage access) that need native expertise and may be hard to get approved.
What it would actually take: On iOS this uses FamilyControls and ManagedSettings, which require Apple's entitlement approval and a native Swift build. On Android it uses an accessibility or usage-stats service to detect and overlay blocked apps, which raises Play Store policy issues. The hard parts are reliable enforcement that survives force-quit and reboot, and passing store review, so a developer experienced with native mobile and platform policy is needed.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #362 of 650 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pause App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Impedo: Insistent App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Indistractable · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- DrillLock · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Unhook: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- 67: app blocker · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Calma · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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