Blockwise

What it does

BlockNow blocks distracting apps on Android & distraction on chrome— free, with no account and no subscription. Three modes, set individually per app: Hard Block (total lockout), Mindful Pause (a countdown that breaks the reflex), Schedule (blocked during set hours). Guardian mode adds a password lock. No servers, no tracking, no ads. Everything stays on your phone. It's not foolproof — you can always uninstall it. That's deliberate. It's a commitment device, not a prison.

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  1Block2019 · play.google.com · ▲64

  Highly customizable app blocking and app timer for Android

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  AppBlock - Stay Focused2018 · play.google.com · ▲72

  Set time or locations to block distractions from apps.

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  TomosuMar 2026 · tomosu.app · ▲83

  Lock your apps by default to improve your digital wellbeing

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  Mindful GuardJan 2026 · play.google.com · ▲8

  Android app blocker for unbreakable focus sessions

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  Freedom2020 · freedom.to · ▲3

  Seamlessly block distractions on all of your devices.

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  GuardianBlock 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · ▲6

  Block distractions and reclaim your online productivity

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  Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.

  Work · 25d ago · loficities.com

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  Smooth Recorder▲257

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  Figma Specs▲223

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  The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read▲190

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  Hey Noah▲656

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  Clipto MCP▲655

  Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…

  Work · Aug 2026 · clipto.com

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  Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones▲627

  Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for…

  Life & fun · Aug 2026 · toneyalexander.github.io

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  AdAnt AI▲620

  Claude for viral, high-converting social ads

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  Astute▲606

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