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Unhooked: Screen Time Pet

A pixel pet that grows when you put your phone down

Details

External ID
1250666
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Unhooked: Screen Time Pet
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Sept. 15, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
1
Upvotes percentile
0.30815693820825313
Tags
iOS, Health & Fitness, Productivity
Fetched at
Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.

Description

Unhooked turns screen time into a pet you actually want to care for. Pick the apps that eat your day, set a daily limit, and hatch a cozy pixel cat or dog. Stay under your limit to earn energy, feed your pet, and watch it grow through four life stages. Overdo it and it gets droopy. What's different: energy can't be bought, only earned by looking up. Time left lives in your Dynamic Island and widgets. No account, no ads, no tracking, and your Screen Time data never leaves your phone.

Enrichment

Theme
digital minimalism and focus tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
virtual pet for reducing screen time
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial A gamified pixel pet frontend is simple to vibe-code, but tracking app limits on modern mobile OSes requires Apple's restricted Screen Time (FamilyControls / ManagedSettings) APIs.

What it would actually take: The application requires an iOS client built in Swift using Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks to monitor device usage and enforce app shields without violating privacy sandboxes. The bottleneck is acquiring Apple's special Family Controls entitlement approval and navigating the complex, strictly sandboxed DeviceActivity monitor extensions that run isolated from the main app process.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 132 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #68 of 133 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.

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