Launched this week
AccountyCat
A focus companion that actually gets context
128 followers
A focus companion that actually gets context
128 followers
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.
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@jonas_strabel Love the idea! Mochi is a very cute cat ^__^ laughed at the "You said you were coding. Is Youtube helping?" hehe
Congrats on the launch, Jonas! 😸 I came across this by chance and visited your website. I have tried many distraction blocking apps and they didn't work much. I would get calls or there would be something or the other. So, I'll unblock the apps and it totally beats the purpose of it.
Your Accounty Cat seems cool but I have a question. You've mentioned on your website that screenshots are analysed and discarded. I have to follow strict privacy policies at work. Is there a way that I can enable Accounty Cat for only certain apps and not my whole system?
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Hey Archanaa! Thank you so much for your comment, I am glad AC could be helpful to you!
A possible quick fix: If you add an allow rule for those apps, AC willl never check them.
Screenshots can be disabled globally, but disabling them for certain apps is actually a good idea. I will add this to the backlog.
I will also look into AC being only enabled for certain apps, that also seems like a great suggestion, thank you for the feedback!
@jonas_strabel Thank you, Jonas. I hope you guys make it big. Good luck with AC. 😁
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@archanaa11 Thank you so much for the support Archanaa 😁
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@archanaa11 Hi Archanaa, just wanted to say that your feature request is shipped with v1.03 (now current version). You can find it in the 'you' tab in the settings. Thanks again for the great feedback!
@jonas_strabel Wow, Joans! That's awesome. 🤩 I really didn't expect your team to ship a new feature in under 24 hours. I'll check it out right away.
Very cool idea and implementation! and there are even three characters to choose from, wow! one thing i'm wondering: if i usually switch between tasks, will my cat be confused? 🙂
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@kseniya_avtukhovich1 Thank you so much, happy you like it! Depends on how you do it :) I also have some profiles where its like 'Coding + Reading + ...'. That works well :D If you want to stay focused on each task for a small period, profile switching from task to task works in no time as well!
The distinction between "procrastination" YouTube vs "tutorial" YouTube is genuinely clever. Curious how AC handles ambiguous cases over time: does the nudge frequency adapt as it learns your personal patterns, or does each session start fresh? And is there a way to review the reasoning behind a nudge after the fact, like a log of why it flagged something?
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@anastasija_pm Thanks your your comment! It does learn, yes. AC builds up memory with time to adjust to user preferences. You can see all the rules / memory that AC makes for transparency. You can also simply chat with AC and ask her why she did or didn't do something. AC is is an approachable companion :)
Focus tools that 'get context' are the holy grail — most of them either timer-bro-shame you or try to be a full second brain. Curious where AccountyCat lands on that spectrum. Asking because I built the Excel for Financial Modelling course on Udemy and a recurring student-question pattern is: 'how do you focus deeply enough to actually internalize the structural side of a model vs. just clicking through tutorials?' Most of them are missing exactly this — a focus layer that adapts to the depth of work, not just blocks notifications.
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@samir_asadov Hey there! AccountyCat lands on the "silent, honest mirror" side of that spectrum. It lets you work deeply and onely interrupts when you drift off:)
so cuteee.. I wish it existed for Linux as well :|
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@ashishkingdom Thank you so much! 🐾 Glad you like the vibe!
Right now, it's macOS-only because it relies pretty heavily on native macOS APIs to understand the active window context. Tracking that on Linux (especially with Wayland/X11 differences) is a whole different puzzle.
That said, AccountyCat is 100% open-source! I’d absolutely love it if a Linux developer wanted to jump in, collaborate, or fork it to bring the cat to Linux. The repo is open for contributions!
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The more I look at it, the more I want to try it - but I use Windows ;(
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@margarita_s88 Haha thank you! That means a lot. 🙏 A Windows version is definitely on the ultimate wish list! It currently relies heavily on macOS-specific workspace APIs to read the screen context, but since the project is fully open-source, I'm really hoping the community can help bring the cat to Windows down the road!
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@jonas_strabel thanks for your reply! Well, a bit more exposure and users - and I'm pretty sure somebody will try to adapt it for Windows too. Have you considered some guest articles? there are quite many websites which would accept it, especially considering it is open-source.
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@margarita_s88 Hopefully!
Do you mean blogs covering AccountyCat? I got some requests via email. Some of them will write about AC, yes! Do you have any specific website in mind?