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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

Other products that read as similar to this one — 167 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

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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