Catnap
Gentle breaks that follow your real screen time
Details
- External ID
- 1248264
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Catnap
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- focus timers and task planners
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen time break reminder based on actual usage
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 272 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 273 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 288 days after the earliest competitor.
- Just a Pause · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LookAway 2 · ph · 2026-04-08 · 281 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- mactap · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt · hn · 2026-06-24 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- GlassNudge · ph · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TouchGrass · ph · 2026-07-26 · 344 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Furwall · hn · 2026-05-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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