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Now - Your Desktop Pixel Companion

Your desktop's pixel companion for time and focus

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Now is a tiny always-on-top widget for Windows with a pixel companion that lives on your desktop. Watch your day, week, month and year tick by as progress bars, run Pomodoros, track countdowns and daily goals, and jot quick notes. Type = to calculate, > to launch apps, and; to expand snippets anywhere. See-through and click-through until you hold Ctrl. One-time purchase, no account. macOS & Linux coming soon.

PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Time Tracking
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes A desktop productivity companion with an always-on-top window, Pomodoro timer, progress bars, and basic text expansion can be built with Electron or Tauri.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 294 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #251 of 295 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Pomo Pet · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Pixel Pet · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Computer Companion · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Dock Companion · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Meowy · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Mellow · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Puffdoro · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Daily Focus: Pomodoro Timer · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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