Mono Writer
Set a goal. The screen locks until you've written it.
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Mono Writer is a free focus writing app. Set a word or time goal and your screen locks until you hit it. Distraction-free, synced through your own iCloud, no account, no tracking. Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: note-taking and writing apps · 264 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Productivity
- Writing
- Apple
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More like this: all 264 launches in note-taking and writing apps →
Could you build this?
Yes A focus writer with word or time goals, screen locking, and sync is a manageable app, though the cross-platform iCloud sync adds some complexity.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 252 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Scrio Writer · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NOW · ph · 2026-11-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Zen Slate · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Writing App for Novelist · hn · 2026-03-02 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- StoryWriter · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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