MathBlocker vs tapón

MathBlocker puts a math problem between you and the apps you open too much. You pick the apps you want blocked. When you try to open one after your time's up, a math question shows up instead. You answer it, you get a few minutes back. You don't, the app stays closed. The questions are real. They come from the same problem sets people use to study for the SAT, ACT, AMC, and AIME. You can set the difficulty. Easy questions if you just want a speed bump. Harder ones if you actually want to stop scrolling. Features - Block any app or category — social, video, games, news, browsers - Pick your difficulty, from warmup arithmetic to competition-level - Choose your problem set: SAT, ACT, AMC, AIME, Putnam, or general practice - Earn time back per problem solved (you set how much) - Daily, weekly, and per-app limits - Schedule blocks by time of day (bedtime, study hours, work hours) - Dashboard with usage broken down by app, hour, and day - Custom block screen so it actually feels like a stop sign - Works with Family Sharing if you're setting it up for someone younger A few ways people use it: blocking social apps during work hours. Locking everything after 10pm with hard math. Pairing it with actual SAT prep so the time you would've spent scrolling becomes practice instead. Everything stays on your phone. No account, no login, no data sent anywhere. iOS 16 and up. iPhone only.

tapón is an app and a physical device we created to help people break free from digital distractions. We often found ourselves opening social media and games while working, reading, or spending time with our loved ones. And after doomscrolling through these apps, we usually couldn't even remember what we had just seen. We initially created tapón for ourselves, then decided to launch it so everyone could benefit from it. Inspired by existing alternatives, which, by the way, are often very expensive, we wanted to create a DIY version that we could share with our family and friends. After many people told us that tapón could be useful to them, we decided to launch it for everyone and make the entire process of building your own physical device freely available. How does it work? Once your tapón is ready and the app is set up, you simply scan the tapón with your phone. The apps you have selected will then be locked. Even if you try to open them, you won't be able to bypass the lock screen until you consciously decide to scan the tapón again. For example, if you're going to bed and don't want to spend time scrolling through TikTok before deciding that it's finally time to sleep, you can keep a tapón on the fridge and scan it before going to bed. Once you're in bed, going back to the kitchen to scan it again is inconvenient, so accessing TikTok becomes a conscious choice, and a very inconvenient one.