Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals
Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block Reddit, Instagram and Steam until your Apple Watch reports that you have walked 5000 steps. The app works by collecting data via plugins that you can use to create goals for yourself. Goals are all represented by expressions that return true or false based on the data you provide. For example, if you want to create a goal to finish all of the tasks in your to-do list you could do something like…
Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals launched on January 14, 2026 with 39 votes, #588 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Digital Carrot is an app blocker for iOS, Mac, and Windows that prevents access to websites and apps until user-defined goals are met. It uses plugins to gather data from various sources—like Apple Watch step counts or to-do list completion—and evaluates custom conditions to determine when blocking should end. The system is extensible, allowing users to create their own plugins and integrate with services like Pi-hole for DNS-level blocking.
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From the sources
Digital Carrot is a focus app that blocks distracting apps and websites until you complete your daily goals. Screen time blocker and habit tracker for iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows.
The worlds most flexible focus app and app blocker. Block distracting apps, websites and games until you hit your daily fitness, productivity or screen time goals. Progress towards your goals is tracked automatically. Goals can be created from a premade template or fully programmed with a simple script. Pick the apps and websites that are the most distracting to you. These will all be blocked until you’ve completed your goals. Once you’ve finished your goals for the day your distracting apps will be unlocked and you can enjoy them guilt free. Use your health data to verify that you’ve been active throughout the day. Use your phone’s GPS to verify that you actually…from digitalcarrot.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block Reddit, Instagram and Steam until your Apple Watch reports that you have walked 5000 steps. The app works by…
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