Desktop App Blocker API

Desktop App Blocker API is a utility Rust crate for performing cross-platform "app blocking". Useful for productivity applications or parenting software.

This is a project I have built for my personal use. Therefore, I am being slightly selfish and putting more emphasis on the features that I need, even if that meant ignoring the greater good. 🍕

Features

• Support for Windows and macOS
• Detect/Block Task Manager or Activity Monitor
• Detect/Block terminal applications
• Detect/Block system settings
• Detect/Block installers (Windows)
• Block by window names
• Block executables (Windows)
• Block by bundle IDs (macOS)
• Structs include support for serde, bincode and specta

Usage

desktop-app-blocker-api = "0.1.0"

Features

• serde: Includes serde Serialize and Deserialize derives for types
• specta: Includes Type derives for types
• bincode: Includes Encode and Decode derives for types