pawl
a tiny mac focus timer you start by pulling a paw
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start a focus timer by pulling a cat paw, it lives in your mac menu bar or you can pin it like a mini timer! it has adjustable focus and break sessions, eight cat paws, themes, and a quiet heads-up before your timer ends. made for macos 14+. $9.99 once, with no subscription.
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A small macOS menu bar timer with themes and sounds is a simple native app that AI coding tools can build.
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Attention rank: #82 of 458 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Paw-Paw · ph · 2026-10-08 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Pomodoro Timer - Increase Focus · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Mellow · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Mino · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- locktfin · ph · 2026-09-12 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- PulseTiles · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Paws Off · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MidClick · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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