Renura - A real-time pause for doomscrolling and impulse buying

Hi Product Hunt. I am Siddharth, the maker of Renura.

I built Renura because I was wasting a lot of time and sanity scrolling Reels, TikTok, and Shorts, and purchasing things that I don't need when I am bored, stressed, or simply low on dopamine.

I’ve been on the other side of the table as a marketer. I know exactly what we are up against.

On one side, you have experienced teams with million-dollar production budgets, deep psychological profiles, and addictive algorithms designed to do one thing: remove every ounce of friction between a trigger and a purchase (or another hour of scrolling).

On the other side, you have an average person trying to navigate all of this using pure willpower. It is a rigged game. By the time you realize you are in an impulse loop, the money is gone or the hour has vanished.

So, I combined my knowledge as a marketer with digital interaction research to build something that actually stands between you and those impulses. I spent months analyzing exactly how digital habits form mapping scroll velocity, tap frequency, visual intensity, and interaction patterns and translated that into a local behavior engine. Renura doesn't wait for a weekly screen-time report. It senses an impulse in real time and steps in RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT to offer a gentle, choice-preserving pause. Because nobody is there yet, standing between you and your impulses.

I was also incredibly tired of digital wellbeing apps that treat adults like children, positioning themselves as strict parents or teachers. Why are we guilt-tripping adults on their own phones? Motivation dips. Trackers get abandoned. Showing a red scorecard after a long day of work doesn't help. If you genuinely want to doomscroll for an hour to decompress, you absolutely deserve to. The choice just needs to be yours. Renura isn't a strict parent; it is a digital-native friend offering a gentle tap on the shoulder exactly when you slip.

Finally, I didn't want to build a tool that required you to hand over your behavioral data to a server. "Trust us with your data" is usually just a corporate "trust me bro," and I didn't want that for myself. That is why Renura has zero internet permissions, meaning it physically cannot transmit your data anywhere. It does no screen reading, so it never sees your personal texts, messages, or passwords. Every interaction pattern it learns is kept 100% on-device and encrypted to the core.

The feedback that would help me most right now comes down to three things. First, the interruption balance. If you try it on Android, how does that real-time pause actually feel? Does it successfully break your autopilot, or does it just feel intrusive? Second, the setup friction. Setting up an app that needs to observe interaction patterns can be tricky, so did the onboarding make it clear why those local permissions were needed? Third, use cases. Right now, Renura is focused on doomscrolling, impulse buying, and food ordering. What other autopilot habits would you want a gentle pause for?

I will be hanging out in the comments all day to answer any questions about the architecture or the app. Thank you so much for checking it out!