WOW
Mac reminders delivered by a 3D pet on your desktop
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Details
- External ID
- 1275269
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- WOW
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- Tags
- Health & Fitness, Productivity, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
WOW is a free menu bar app for drinking water, taking breaks and remembering your pills, with a twist: a little 3D pet walks across your screen and brings each reminder right to your cursor. Pick from 10 pets, feed it treats you earn, play fetch, unlock hats with streaks, and track your water. Native, private, no account.
Enrichment
- Niche
- pet tech and virtual companions
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop 3d pet reminder app for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A standard Mac reminder app is simple, but rendering interactive 3D animated sprites moving dynamically across desktop windows requires specialized native macOS graphics programming.
What it would actually take: Requires native macOS development using Swift, AppKit, and SceneKit/Metal to create a borderless, transparent, always-on-top window that follows screen cursor coordinates. Assets require 3D modeling and skeletal animation rigs, along with native system event monitoring to avoid blocking user inputs while tracking streaks and notifications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 186 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pawse · ph · 2026-10-10 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Offscreen · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Paw-Paw · ph · 2026-10-08 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Snout · ph · 2026-09-14 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Free Tamagotchi Online for Browser · ph · 2026-10-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Just Drink 2.0 · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Bottle: Hydration Reminder · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Peeku · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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