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Lock your iPhone into a focus session with no ignore button. To quit early: scan a QR code you hid across the room, tap an NFC tag,get your accountability partner's approval, or spend a limited emergency unlock. Quitting is always possible but never accidental.
I'm Tom, an indie dev from the UK, and Indistractable is my attempt to fix the thing that made every screen-time tool fail me personally: the moment you most need the limit is the exact moment you're allowed to dismiss it.
I've been building apps for quite a few years now and always get "shiny object" syndrome and rewriting things or getting easily distracted by apps on my phone! I found some of the other app blockers too easy to skip so I decided to build my own that has an accountability partner! This means I need to get approval from my wife before I can stop working on something and unlock my phone.
So I built a commitment device instead of a limit:
🔒 Pick a mode, lock in. Choose the only apps you want available (maps, music, messages, say), everything else is blocked phone-wide. Or use a more traditional block first mechanism.
🚪 Every exit is deliberate. To end a session early, your accountability partner approves it from their own phone, hard to doomscroll when someone you respect has to sign off. On lighter modes: scan a QR code you've physically hidden (the walk usually changes your mind), tap an NFC tag, or spend one of a limited few emergency unlocks.
🎚️ You choose the strictness. Normal, Strict, or Hardcore, decided when you're at your strongest, enforced when you're not.
v1.3 just shipped: automatic schedules, category blocking, NFC tag unlock, and a full redesign.
A word on the obvious comparison: if you just want NFC/QR friction, Foqos is free, open source, and genuinely good, use it. Indistractable exists for the moment physical friction isn't enough. A determined you can always walk to your own QR code; it can't talk its way past a person. That human layer is the part that can't be free, it's a live approval system with real servers.
Being honest about the rough edges: it's iPhone-only (iOS 18+), and it's a paid subscription ($4.99/mo or $19.99/yr) because it's just me and ongoing server costs for the partner-approval system.
A personal note: I built Indistractable in the evenings around a full-time job, mostly during hours I used to lose to my own phone, a fact which is not lost on me. The long term dream is to do this full-time one day, and to take my family on a proper holiday off the back of something I made. Today's a step toward that, so every bit of feedback here genuinely means a lot.
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About Indistractable on Product Hunt
“The app blocker you can't talk yourself out of”
Indistractable was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #130 on the daily leaderboard. Lock your iPhone into a focus session with no ignore button. To quit early: scan a QR code you hid across the room, tap an NFC tag,get your accountability partner's approval, or spend a limited emergency unlock. Quitting is always possible but never accidental.
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Indistractable was hunted by Tom Berwick. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Tom Berwick
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Tom, an indie dev from the UK, and Indistractable is my attempt to fix the thing that made every screen-time tool fail me personally: the moment you most need the limit is the exact moment you're allowed to dismiss it.
I've been building apps for quite a few years now and always get "shiny object" syndrome and rewriting things or getting easily distracted by apps on my phone! I found some of the other app blockers too easy to skip so I decided to build my own that has an accountability partner! This means I need to get approval from my wife before I can stop working on something and unlock my phone.
So I built a commitment device instead of a limit:
🔒 Pick a mode, lock in. Choose the only apps you want available (maps, music, messages, say), everything else is blocked phone-wide. Or use a more traditional block first mechanism.
🚪 Every exit is deliberate. To end a session early, your accountability partner approves it from their own phone, hard to doomscroll when someone you respect has to sign off. On lighter modes: scan a QR code you've physically hidden (the walk usually changes your mind), tap an NFC tag, or spend one of a limited few emergency unlocks.
🎚️ You choose the strictness. Normal, Strict, or Hardcore, decided when you're at your strongest, enforced when you're not.
v1.3 just shipped: automatic schedules, category blocking, NFC tag unlock, and a full redesign.
A word on the obvious comparison: if you just want NFC/QR friction, Foqos is free, open source, and genuinely good, use it. Indistractable exists for the moment physical friction isn't enough. A determined you can always walk to your own QR code; it can't talk its way past a person. That human layer is the part that can't be free, it's a live approval system with real servers.
Being honest about the rough edges: it's iPhone-only (iOS 18+), and it's a paid subscription ($4.99/mo or $19.99/yr) because it's just me and ongoing server costs for the partner-approval system.
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A personal note: I built Indistractable in the evenings around a full-time job, mostly during hours I used to lose to my own phone, a fact which is not lost on me. The long term dream is to do this full-time one day, and to take my family on a proper holiday off the back of something I made. Today's a step toward that, so every bit of feedback here genuinely means a lot.