SelfControl
Cold Turkey
Freedom.to
Focus App
FocusMe
Forest App
LeechBlock
Stay Focused
Halide
Manual Camera for iPhone
Dark Room
Spectre Camera
NeuralCam Night Photo
Artisse AI
Nizo
Priime
SelfControl HalideSelfControl is ideal for students who need to concentrate on studying, remote workers who want to avoid procrastination, freelancers who require discipline in managing their time, and anyone who needs a simple solution to reduce digital distractions during focused work periods.
Based on our record, SelfControl should be more popular than Halide. It has been mentiond 79 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
A combination of https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and Hammerspoon automation and you can lock yourself out of pretty much everything. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Happy to see it still exists, and free https://selfcontrolapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I have found that a useful method for getting distractions off my work laptop has been https://selfcontrolapp.com/ (if you're on mac). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Pro tip for macos/ios folks: - Macos: Install https://selfcontrolapp.com/, add every website and their alternatives you know, set it to 24 hours. Really hard to bypass this even if you know networking stuff - iOS: Enable downtime 24/7 ask someone else to set the password. I'm down to about 35 minutes a day of mobile usage, and laptop usage is only work related things. You really need two or three days to clear... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
There is a free and open source app called SelfControl for macOS. It allows one to block access to any site one adds to the list in the app for the amount of time the user chooses. Attempt to use multiple browsers, restarting one's machine, deleting the app, etc. won't get around the block either. It's been super helpful for me, so I thought I'd just throw it out there. https://selfcontrolapp.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Really appreciated this comment, written as if by a photographer who also happens to use a mobile phone camera for EDL or street. Adding some similar color... > An iPhone 16 Pro Max has three focal lengths, 12, 24 and 120 (35mm equivalent). The first two are much too short unless significantly cropped, and the last one is excessive and requires stepping way back and has the worst image sensor and likely worst... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Https://halide.cam/ has Process Zero, which is about as close as you can get to straight off the sensor. Here's a photo I took with it: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net/post/3le3dd53zlk2c Easily the best camera app I've ever purchased. It makes me not want to pull out my mirrorless camera as much to get decent photos. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
You could also use a third party camera app that skips the processing, like Halide or Moment. They give you a lot of manual control. Source: about 3 years ago
Best way around this is to use a third party camera app like Halide. Source: about 3 years ago
I really like to use Halide for situations where I want more control over the camera, and it will take RAW images to be edited later. Source: over 3 years ago
Cold Turkey - Cold Turkey is a free productivity program that you can use to temporarily block distractions so that you can get your work done!
Manual Camera for iPhone - Custom exposure for your iPhone camera
Freedom.to - Freedom is a productivity hack that lets you block apps, websites or the entire Internet on iPhones, iPads, Windows and Mac computers.
Dark Room - A quick, powerful photo editor that gives you control
Focus App - New Tab page that gives you a moment of calm and inspires you to be more productive.
Spectre Camera - Spectre is a new iOS camera app that uses AI to create stunning long exposures
