AccountyCat is a focus companion for macOS that reads context instead of blocking lists. It sits in your menu bar, sees your active app and window title (and a screenshot only when needed), then quietly nudges when you drift. Sometimes YouTube is procrastination, sometimes it's the tutorial — AC tells the difference. Runs fully on-device with Qwen via llama.cpp, or with your own OpenRouter key. Open source, auditable, private. Interrupting legitimate work is treated as a bug.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built AccountyCat because i can't live without a blocking app but strict blocking doesn't work. There is always an exception needed and I just ended up unblocking everything again all the time. Not helpful for me.
AC watches the active app and window title and takes a screenshot when the text context isn't enough. An LLM decides whether to stay quiet, nudge gently, or ask (accountability). Most checks result in nothing happening. When thinks you're drifting off, it will nudge you.
A few more things:
• Two modes. Everyday tolerates errands, breaks, life admin. Named focus sessions are stricter — you opted in.
• It learns. Correct it, set a rule, click "it's fine" on a nudge — AC remembers. Repeated patterns surface as suggestions you accept or dismiss, never silent changes.
• Open source (feel free to contribute to make it even better:)). Screen Recording and Accessibility are serious permissions. You can read exactly what happens with them.
• Your choice of brain. Fully on-device with Qwen (no account, no key, no internet), or BYOK via OpenRouter with ZDR enforced. A managed flat-fee option is on the waitlist.
Apple Silicon only for now. MIT licensed.
Would love feedback — especially from anyone who's bounced off blocking apps before. What does focus tooling get wrong for you?
— Jonas
About AccountyCat on Product Hunt
“A focus companion that actually gets context”
AccountyCat launched on Product Hunt on May 28th, 2026 and earned 114 upvotes and 20 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. AccountyCat is a focus companion for macOS that reads context instead of blocking lists. It sits in your menu bar, sees your active app and window title (and a screenshot only when needed), then quietly nudges when you drift. Sometimes YouTube is procrastination, sometimes it's the tutorial — AC tells the difference. Runs fully on-device with Qwen via llama.cpp, or with your own OpenRouter key. Open source, auditable, private. Interrupting legitimate work is treated as a bug.
On the analytics side, AccountyCat competes within Productivity, Open Source, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 774.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how AccountyCat performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted AccountyCat?
AccountyCat was hunted by Jonas Strabel. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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