Squirrel
An app blocker that pays you back
Details
- External ID
- 1251902
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Squirrel
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 108
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9872247166987385
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Personal Finance
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Squirrel puts a price on the apps you open too much. Tap Instagram and you get a hard block, not a screen you can wave away. Want to check a DM? That's fine, but you have to open Squirrel, pick how long, and set aside a few dollars for yourself first. No money moves through the app. No card or bank account to connect. When you're ready, invest it in your own brokerage and tell Squirrel what you bought. It tracks your holdings with live prices.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hobby collectibles and gaming tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- gamified app blocker that gives financial rewards for focus
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It utilizes standard iOS FamilyControls / ScreenTime APIs or Android Accessibility APIs to enforce app shielding, tied to a basic timer and local ledger logic.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1 of 168 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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