UVShield: UV Index Alerts & Sunscreen
Free on Google Play live UV alerts and custom timers
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Details
- External ID
- 1276967
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- UVShield: UV Index Alerts & Sunscreen
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.89
- Tags
- Android, Parenting, Outdoors, Health
Description
The UVShield App is family focused and risk reduction focused to lower risk of sunburn and long-term melanoma risks. I also donate 10% of all ad and subscription profits to melanoma research every year. Key Features: - Live UV Index Alerts - Sunscreen reapply, sun exposure, and custom timers -Add family & friend #s to set timers and send reminders to loved ones -Skin tone selection for accurate burn estimates -Search any location and see the 12-hr forecast
Enrichment
- Niche
- personal health and medication tracking apps
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- uv alerts and sunscreen timers for outdoor protection
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward mobile utility that calls third-party weather/UV index APIs and sets local timer notifications for reapplying sunscreen.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 56 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 57 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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