Foldling: Virtual Fox Pet
A tiny paper fox that lives in your iPhone's fold
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Meet Kit, a paper fox who lives in the crease of your iPhone Duo. Bend your phone into a V and drop seeds that roll down to him. Play ball, decorate his house, start a 25-min focus timer from a widget, and wind down with sleep sounds. No ads.
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PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
- Games
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Partial The virtual pet, timers, and sleep sounds are standard iOS app work. Detecting the fold angle of a foldable iPhone depends on hardware sensor access that may not be publicly exposed, which makes the core interaction uncertain.
What it would actually take: A real version would be a native iOS app (Swift, SwiftUI, SpriteKit or similar) with a widget for the timer and audio playback. The key hard piece is reliably reading hinge angle on a foldable device, which may need private APIs or sensor fusion and device testing. Art assets and animation polish also require an illustrator or animator.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 126 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #65 of 127 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 221 days after the earliest competitor.
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