Recess: Stop Doomscrolling
Block doomscrolling apps with limits you can't undo
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Spending hours on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts and hating it afterward? Recess helps you take your attention back by putting a firm limit on the apps that eat your day — and making that limit stick when your willpower doesn't. Recess is a commitment device. You decide how long you get each day; once you hit it, the app is blocked. There's no "just five more minutes" button to talk yourself into — that's the whole point.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Productivity
- Education
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Could you build this?
Yes The app blocker and commitment-limit logic is a native mobile app using documented OS screen-time APIs, which an AI-assisted developer can build, though platform approval takes effort.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 492 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #227 of 493 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Doomless: Block & Limit Shorts and Reels · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Curfew · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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