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Munchy Mates

A tiny pet that lives on your Mac and feels your battery

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Munchy Mates puts tiny pets above your Dock. They get hungry at 20% battery, cry at 10%, get lazy after lunch, sleep from 1 to 8 am, and eat files you drag to them (into the Trash). Plus 5 PDF tools. Native Mac app, macOS 14+.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Pets

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Could you build this?

Yes A small native macOS menu-bar app that reads battery state, runs a simple pet state machine, and handles file drag-and-drop and basic PDF tools is well within reach of AI-assisted Swift/AppKit development.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 352 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #85 of 353 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Pettery · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Mochi · ph · 2026-09-28 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Companion · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • My Dock Buddies · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • TapNoise · ph · 2026-10-10 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Super Buddy · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Sticky Jelly · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50

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