Squishy is an app and website blocker with a mascot whose happiness follows your choices. Focus helps it recover. Opening blocked apps or sites drains it. Share one Squishy with a partner, friend, or family member, and both of you contribute to the same happiness bar while browsing details stay private. One subscription covers the owner and one invited partner, with sync across iPhone, iPad, Android, and Chrome.
i built squishy because i kept telling myself to lock in and stop scrolling ig reels, just to immediately open x on my laptop. squishy is a screen time pet for iphone and chrome. when you hit blocked apps or websites, squishy loses happiness. when you come back and focus, squishy heals.
the part i’m most excited about is the sync: it’s the same squishy across your phone and browser, so you can’t “be good” on one device while doomscrolling on the other.
i’d love feedback on whether this makes screen time feel more personal than a normal blocker.
The shared pet twist is so smart. Guilt from a normal blocker is easy to ignore but letting down a pet you share with someone is a whole different thing. Can you run more than one Squishy with different people? Congrats on the launch!
I've honestly tried every screen time app imaginable and the feature that syncs it across phone and browser might actually be what I was missing before. maybe there can be like a leveling system where you can customize squishy the more you stick to your goals.
@Austin a toggle sounds like the right call actually - some people would want the real-time ping specifically because it nudges them to go check on their partner right away, others would find it stressful. defaulting to daily summary and letting people opt into real-time seems like it avoids annoying most users while not taking the feature away from the ones who'd want it.
The shared bar only works if both people keep opening the app. If one side drops off, does Squishy just stay unhappy, or is there a way to unpair and start fresh with someone else?
I'm came to support just because it is sooo cute, but stop - looks that I need that app!
sharing the happiness bar with a partner while keeping the actual browsing details private is a smart way to get the accountability benefit without the awkwardness of someone literally seeing what you opened. does the partner get notified in real time when the pet is drained, or just a daily summary?
About Squishy on Product Hunt
“the screen time pet you keep alive with someone”
Squishy launched on Product Hunt on July 23rd, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 20 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. Squishy is an app and website blocker with a mascot whose happiness follows your choices. Focus helps it recover. Opening blocked apps or sites drains it. Share one Squishy with a partner, friend, or family member, and both of you contribute to the same happiness bar while browsing details stay private. One subscription covers the owner and one invited partner, with sync across iPhone, iPad, Android, and Chrome.
Squishy was featured in iOS (110.6k followers), Chrome Extensions (52.7k followers), Productivity (656.7k followers) and OpenAI Day (8 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 200.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Squishy?
Squishy was hunted by Austin. 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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Austin
hey product hunt,
i built squishy because i kept telling myself to lock in and stop scrolling ig reels, just to immediately open x on my laptop. squishy is a screen time pet for iphone and chrome. when you hit blocked apps or websites, squishy loses happiness. when you come back and focus, squishy heals.
the part i’m most excited about is the sync: it’s the same squishy across your phone and browser, so you can’t “be good” on one device while doomscrolling on the other.
i’d love feedback on whether this makes screen time feel more personal than a normal blocker.