WELTEN
Your focus sessions grow a forest behind your Mac icons
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Details
- External ID
- 1271517
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- WELTEN
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Time Tracking
Description
WELTEN is a native Mac focus timer that grows a forest behind your desktop icons without changing your wallpaper. Every finished session plants a permanent tree. Start from the menu bar or Quick Focus, optionally link Apple Reminders tasks, and keep working in your usual apps. No streaks or lost progress. Sessions stay on your Mac. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+. First tree free; then €24.99 once or a 7-day trial with a payment method, then €3.99/month until cancelled.
Enrichment
- Niche
- focus and countdown timer apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- gamified focus timer for mac desktop
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic macOS timer with Apple Reminders integration is easy, but dynamically rendering interactive graphics behind macOS desktop icons without modifying the static wallpaper requires low-level macOS window server manipulation.
What it would actually take: The app needs Swift/AppKit interacting with CoreGraphics and the Window Server, creating a transparent, click-through borderless NSWindow pinned precisely at kCGDesktopWindowLevel (behind icon views). It requires managing desktop space changes, multi-display configurations, and display sleep notifications without leaking resources or triggering macOS windowing glitches.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 81 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 82 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Netra · ph · 2026-10-05 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- locktfin · ph · 2026-09-12 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Mino · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Ubieram · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- FocusShield · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Focus Shield · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Unfocus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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