Mindful Guard
Block apps and reels to stay focused
What this is
An Android app that hard-blocks Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts once your daily time limit is hit, with no snooze or override to talk yourself out of it.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Lets you set a hard daily time limit on Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts; once the limit is hit, the feed is blocked for the rest of the day with no override or snooze button. Also supports scheduled app blocking, quick focus sessions, and custom block lists.
- What's different
- Positioned against blockers that let you snooze or override the block — here the block holds, with tamper protection against quietly uninstalling.
- Pricing
- Free.
- Best for
- Android users, including students, who want to stop short-form video scrolling and have found softer blockers easy to bypass.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 18 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Productivity. Launched 18d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #508. Today, the site itself changed 2d ago — evidence it's still shipping, not just announcing.
Quiet for 2 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
Shipping record
1 separate day we saw this ship · source: page changed
Beyan değil kanıt: founder “çalışıyoruz” diye post atabilir, ama sevk ettiyse izi kalır. ⚠️ Kaydı olmayan ürün “sevk etmedi” demek değildir — o üründe izleyecek bir kaynağımız yok demektir.
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #508 on PeerPush with 6 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
6 quiet days in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Mindful Guard — Reel & App Blocker for Android Most app blockers lie to you. They show a warning, let you snooze it, and watch you open Instagram anyway. Mindful Guard is built differently — when you set a limit, the app enforces it. No override button. No snooze. No "just five more minutes." The block holds. The centerpiece feature is Reel Guard. Set a hard daily time limit on Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. Once your limit is hit, the feed is blocked for the rest of the day — not nudged, not warned, blocked. This is the feature users consistently report as the only thing that actually changed their habits. Beyond Reel Guard, you get scheduled blocking to lock apps automatically during work hours or study sessions, Quick Focus sessions for heads-down sprints, and custom block lists for any app on your device. Tamper protection means you can't quietly uninstall the app mid-session to get around a block. Everything is enforced natively on-device — no VPN tunnel, no background network drain, no privacy trade-off. On privacy: there is no analytics SDK, no crash reporting to third-party servers, no behavioural tracking of any kind. Everything stays on your device. What you block and when you focus is your business, not ours. The free tier is genuinely usable — not a trial, not a nag screen. Free users get Reel Guard with a daily limit, Quick Focus sessions, and one active block list. Premium unlocks unlimited block lists, multiple Reel Guard profiles for different contexts like work mode or exam mode, advanced recurring schedules, and priority support. Pricing is well below the $99 per year that competitors like Opal charge. Android's built-in Digital Wellbeing sends a notification when you hit your screen time limit. You can dismiss it in one tap and keep scrolling. Most third-party blockers follow the same philosophy — gentle friction. Mindful Guard's philosophy is that friction should be hard enough that bypassing it requires a real decision, not an accidental thumb movement. Mindful Guard is built for students preparing for exams who need distraction-free study blocks, remote workers who lose hours to social media during the workday, and anyone who has tried every other blocker and found the workarounds too easy. If you need a reminder, there are plenty of apps for that. If you need enforcement, this is the one.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPush | 6 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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