A cute 3D pet that reminds you to drink water & take breaks
Pawse is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app. A cute 3D pet walks onto your screen to remind you to drink water, keep habits like stretching every 30 minutes, and take screen-time breaks, with an optional hard block.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm the laziest person in my office when it comes to drinking water, stretching and walking. I tried so many reminder apps, but a notification is too easy to ignore. None of them actually pushed me.
So I thought, what if a cute pet walked onto my screen and asked me itself? Okay then, built it.
Pawse is a free, open-source Mac app with 5 little 3D pets (Momo, Mochi, Pip, Yuzu and Boo):
• Water reminders with a daily goal and streaks. Say "not yet" and the pet gets sad and comes back to plead 🥺
• Custom habits on any interval, like stretch every 30 min or walk every hour
• Screen-time breaks with a 20-20-20 eye rest
• Optional hard block: your screen stays locked until you actually do it 😅
No account, no tracking, everything stays on your Mac. Works on macOS 13+ (Apple silicon and Intel).
I'd love to hear what habit you'd want a pet to nag you about, and which pet I should add next!
About Pawse on Product Hunt
“A cute 3D pet that reminds you to drink water & take breaks”
Pawse launched on Product Hunt on October 10th, 2026 and earned 75 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. Pawse is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app. A cute 3D pet walks onto your screen to remind you to drink water, keep habits like stretching every 30 minutes, and take screen-time breaks, with an optional hard block.
On the analytics side, Pawse competes within Health & Fitness, GitHub and Health — topics that collectively have 131.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Pawse performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Pawse?
Pawse was hunted by Swalahu Cv. 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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