The First Integrated Mindfulness Web Blocker

I love technology, but with one caveat – I believe technology should be used to increase human agency, not reduce it. I believe technology should empower us to improve our lives in the direction we want to grow…

Sadly, with all the media companies out there vying for our attention, it’s little old us versus billion-dollar tech behemoths whose business plan is to have you on their platform for longer and longer, selling our time to advertisers for a profit, where we get little else in return. It’s a losing battle.

This is why I made this Pandora. It’s something useful and something intelligently simple.

Among other tools, I’ve been using website blockers for a long time to aid personal productivity, but they’ve never met all the needs that I think they should…

They either don’t address the core of our addictive human behaviours, don’t have a good strategy for winning back our time, or they simply have far too many unproductive features that clutter the overall user experience.

Pandora proves to be a unique web blocking app developed to be the best solution for assisting our web browsing behaviour. It’s your mindful browser companion, always there and always looking out for your best interests when distraction strikes.

Traditional website blockers create internal conflict. They rely on willpower, punishment, and guilt, making users feel like they’re fighting against themselves…

This leads to: Easy workarounds where the user simply unblocks whenever they feel that urge to be distracted and sedated. An all-or-nothing mentality that doesn’t support sustainable habits. And finally, guilt that doesn’t address the underlying stress and the causation.

So, instead of showing a harsh “blocked” message or a bland redirect like other web blocking apps, users are gently guided to an optional short breathing exercise, transforming not the distraction but the reason you were distracted in the first place.

It’s the practice of noticing when you’re reaching for a vice, and instead of punishment, we invite the user to become present with themselves and in this moment of stillness, recognise our weakness, our fear, and our judgment. Because, as all long-term meditators know, it’s the noticing that does everything.

Key Features

🍃 Mindfulness Redirects

Blocked sites lead to optional guided breathing exercises, turning your need to be distracted into states of calm and stillness, fertilising the soil for growth.

🧗‍♀️ Friction Psychology

Math problems create intentional effort before unblocking, giving the rational mind time to override those secondary impulses that tell you to unblock.

⏱️ Sticky Protection

Automatic re-blocking after set time periods, making focus the default state rather than the exception.

✨ Radically Simple

Clean interface with only essential features—no overwhelming options or analytics which contribute nothing to any real growth.