Name: Password Locker
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Instead of relying on a friend to hold your blocker password, e.g. an iPhone Screen Time pin, store it in software and undergo a tedious 20 min process to retrieve it, deterring you from accessing it to disable blocks while still maintaining full control.

Hey everyone! In the past, I used iPhone Screen Time to limit social media and YouTube but I would know the 4-digit passcode and could just disable the block😐 Then I tried some other distraction-blocking apps like freedom.to, but they all had workarounds (since they weren't native to the device) that rendered them useless. So I returned to Screen Time and let a friend enter and hold the passcode for me. This worked, until I tricked her into giving it to me by making up some legitimate-sounding excuse. Plus it was inconvenient and unreliable. So I built Password Locker, where you store a blocker password like a Screen Time pin, and to retrieve it, you have to go through a tedious 20 min process like counting the number of times the number "2" appears in a list of numbers. The retrieval is annoying enough that I never feel like disabling the block, but I know I can get the pin back at anytime without needing to rely on someone else. And there's a clever feature specifically for Screen Time that helps you enter a 4-digit passcode into your phone in a way you won't remember. If you have a friend hold onto your blocker password for you, like Screen Time, Password Locker is for you!

Congratulations on the launch on product hunt. Very useful tool for day to day life

@abhishek_ambad thank you! Let me know if you have any questions

I use this product personally, For years, nothing worked—I always slipped back into old habits. Then I found PasswordLocker. It gave me what I never had before: a real barrier between me and my impulses. That barrier it created has changed everything for me. What no app, no willpower, no method could do… this simple service did. I’ll always be grateful for it.

Congratulations on the launch on product hunt. Very useful tool for day to day life

@abhishek_ambad thank you! Let me know if you have any questions

Password Locker

Block distractions with an agonizing😵‍💫 password retrieval

Block distractions with an agonizing😵‍💫 password retrieval