Catnap
Gentle breaks that follow your real screen time
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Catnap is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that reminds you to rest based on active screen time. Set your focus rhythm, manually pause reminders for meetings, choose calming break screens, and keep recovery feedback private on your Mac. Free, no account required.
PH · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: reminder and break tracking apps · 126 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 126 launches in reminder and break tracking apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native or menu-bar utility that tracks system idle and display events using standard macOS APIs and displays periodic overlay windows.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 596 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #240 of 597 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 248 days after the earliest competitor.
- Just a Pause · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Pumzi · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- LookAway 2 · ph · 2026-04-08 · 281 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Offscreen · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- mactap · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt · hn · 2026-06-24 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Meander · ph · 2026-10-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- BlinkMate · ph · 2026-10-14 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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