LightScroll
Take control of your screen time (iPhone and Mac)
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LightScroll helps you spend less time on distracting apps and websites without relying on willpower alone. Set flexible Controls with schedules and daily limits, add mindful pauses before opening distractions, or use repeatable Focus Sessions when you need to lock in. Need stronger boundaries? Hardcore Mode makes limits harder to bypass, with optional accountability partner unlock codes. Available on iPhone and Mac, with a useful free plan. Less mindless scrolling. More life beyond the screen.
PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 216 launches, 28 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
- Social Media
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Could you build this?
Partial Scheduling, limits, and focus sessions are a standard app build, but the real blocking depends on Apple's Screen Time/FamilyControls APIs, which need native Swift, entitlements, and an understanding of platform restrictions. Mac blocking adds a separate system-level layer.
What it would actually take: Build native SwiftUI apps for iOS and macOS on top of the Screen Time (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, DeviceActivity) frameworks, syncing settings through iCloud or a lightweight backend. The hard part is Apple's entitlement approval and the limits of what the OS lets third-party apps block, especially on macOS, which needs a developer who knows the platform's sandboxing and system-extension rules.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 836 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #86 of 837 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- Limitly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- SloMo: Less Scrolling, More Living · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Curfew · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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