Caught Scrolling
A study timer that catches every time you pick up your phone
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Put your phone face down and press start. Caught Scrolling counts every time you pick up your phone during a study or work session. At the end, you get your phone-free time: your session time minus the time the phone was in your hand. Free, no app to install and no sign-up. Pick a 25, 50 or 90-minute block or a custom one, and run as many rounds as you want. Studying on a computer? Scan the QR code to run the timer on your phone.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: focus and countdown timer apps · 195 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Education
- Time Tracking
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More like this: all 195 launches in focus and countdown timer apps →
Could you build this?
Partial The timer and session summary are trivial, but reliably detecting phone pickups from a browser is the hard part and may need sensor or camera access that is hard to make accurate.
What it would actually take: The timer UI and session logic can be vibe-coded quickly. Pickup detection would need device motion or proximity sensor access, or a manual tap fallback, plus tuning to avoid false positives. Accuracy testing across real phones is the real work.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1058 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #447 of 1059 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- CatchScroll · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ScrollPause · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- App Limit Monitor–Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- StudyGain: Study Focus Timer · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Focus Study · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- TimeScope: Screen Time Tracker · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- FloatTimer+ · ph · 2026-10-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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