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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- staywith.pet · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MyPet · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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