Pet Gatekeeper
Turn your pet into a doomscroll blocker.
Pet Gatekeeper launched on May 21, 2026 with 2 votes, #6,288 of 20,538 launches that month.
What it does
Unlike screen-time blockers that punish you with friction, Pet Gatekeeper interrupts doomscrolling with a short video of YOUR own pet — not stock animation. Generate it on our site from one photo, install the Chrome extension to guard your feeds, and add the Win/Mac desktop app if you want coverage beyond the browser. First digital-wellness tool using personal emotional attachment instead of guilt, willpower, or hard blocks. Multi-pet cloud library, synced across every screen.
Pet Gatekeeper is a screen-time limit you can't ignore — your own cat or dog hijacks your screen the moment X, TikTok, Reddit or YouTube has kept you too long. Available as a desktop app and a browser extension.
Your own cat or dog hijacks your screen when X, TikTok or Reddit has kept you too long. Make your pet now — it works in the desktop app and the browser extension. 5 hours into doomscroll mode, eyes glazed, no idea what i've even read. screen time report says 9 hours on X this week. someone send a Pet Gatekeeper, fast. tried 4 focus apps to block TikTok. none of them work like a cat sitting on the screen. what if the For You page was just my friends' dogs. that's the only feed i'd close on time. Reddit at 1am is doomscroll with extra steps. there, i said it. opened TikTok to check ONE notification. screen time: +47 minutes. classic. the Pet Gatekeeper extension is the only thing that pulled…from petgatekeeper.com
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