distraction and screen time blockers
Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.
Distraction and screen time blockers help professionals, students, and mindful digital consumers curb compulsive device habits by restricting access to addictive apps, websites, and feeds. These tools frequently incorporate behavioral friction such as gamification, physical challenges, or routine checkpoints to unlock screen access. Unlike passive time trackers or basic network filters, they focus on self-directed accountability and habit modification to stop doomscrolling.
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Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▲ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiipee, Reward Less Screen Time | PH | 1 | 2026-09-25 |
| Scroll Brake Chrome Extension | PH | 1 | 2026-10-09 |
| Donzo | PH | 1 | 2026-09-12 |
| ScrollPause | PH | 1 | 2026-10-05 |
| FocusPass: App Blocker | PH | 1 | 2026-10-10 |
| Random Focus | PH | 1 | 2026-10-08 |
| ShieldBrain Reels Counter App | PH | 1 | 2026-09-20 |
| Curtail | PH | 1 | 2026-09-06 |
| App Break | PH | 1 | 2026-09-12 |
| boomrng — intentional browsing | PH | 1 | 2026-09-22 |
| Focus Hotel | PH | 1 | 2026-10-12 |
| Dopamine Tax: Screen Time & App Blocker | PH | 1 | 2026-10-09 |
| TwoSelves | PH | 1 | 2026-10-07 |
| Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time | PH | 1 | 2026-10-07 |
| Spool - Scren Time Control | PH | 1 | 2026-10-02 |
| Simple ScreenTime | PH | 1 | 2026-09-09 |
| tamatem | PH | 1 | 2026-10-05 |
| Impedo: Insistent App Blocker | PH | 1 | 2026-10-10 |
| minulo | PH | 1 | 2026-10-05 |
| Kalma | PH | 1 | 2026-09-11 |
| Coral | PH | 1 | 2026-09-13 |
| FocusPhone | PH | 1 | 2026-09-21 |
| Namaz Lock | PH | 1 | 2026-09-08 |
| Sane Screen | PH | 1 | 2026-10-09 |
| SloMo: Less Scrolling, More Living | PH | 1 | 2026-10-09 |
| Disciplines: App Blocker | PH | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| Hourcess | PH | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Cooked focus lock | PH | 1 | 2026-09-24 |
| Offimo | PH | 1 | 2026-10-06 |
| D.off | PH | 1 | 2026-09-09 |
| Threshold - A Minimal Focus Launcher | PH | 1 | 2026-09-25 |
| CutFocus | PH | 1 | 2026-09-11 |
| LockIn | PH | 1 | 2026-09-16 |
| Gemify | PH | 1 | 2026-09-25 |
| UnRot | PH | 1 | 2026-09-12 |
| Sanctum | PH | 1 | 2026-09-12 |
| Blocklyn: App & Site Blocker | PH | 1 | 2026-09-17 |
| Circuit | PH | 1 | 2026-09-29 |
| Cortex | PH | 1 | 2026-09-18 |
| Unhooked: Screen Time Pet | PH | 1 | 2026-09-15 |
| TOCus | PH | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| Curfew | PH | 1 | 2026-09-19 |
| ScrollSmack | PH | 1 | 2026-09-15 |
| AppBlockr | PH | 1 | 2026-09-18 |
| Focus Tycoon | PH | 1 | 2026-09-15 |
| Nomo: App Blocker & Focus | PH | 1 | 2026-09-17 |
| literally Strict Focus Launcher | PH | 1 | 2026-09-15 |
| Admonere — I watch, you don't have to | PH | 1 | 2026-10-02 |
| FocusShield | PH | 1 | 2026-10-07 |
| Limitly | PH | 1 | 2026-10-12 |