Socket Buddy
Check plugs and voltage before you fly
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Socket Buddy helps travelers check plug types, voltage, and frequency in 200+ countries—and find out whether their own devices are safe to use. Scan a power label, build a trip with the devices you are packing, and get a clear answer: compatible, adapter needed, or converter required. It works offline, with Apple Watch, widgets, and Siri.
PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: trip and travel planning apps · 335 launches, 43 in the last 7 days ▲ +10% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Apple Watch
- Travel
- GitHub
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More like this: all 335 launches in trip and travel planning apps →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple mobile or web utility combining a static database of worldwide electrical standards with an OCR/vision API call to parse power label photos.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 180 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 181 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
- WiFi Health Check · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ChargeBuddy: Charge With Trust · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- apple_watch_connector · github · 2026-10-09 · 347 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Census · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- MxMob · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- WaveCheck · ph · 2026-10-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- EV Plug Finder · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- BMS Monitor · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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