Cat Gatekeeper went viral in April 2026. Millions of people installed it.

Then they opened a new tab and bypassed the cat in 3 seconds.

The problem: Cat Gatekeeper is a browser extension. It only blocks 6 specific websites.

The moment you switch to Steam, Discord, or any desktop app — the cat disappears.

So I built Pawzy — a desktop app that hijacks your entire OS screen.

What's different

Works at the OS level, not the browser level

Blocks every app, game, and browser simultaneously

No new-tab bypass (the overlay covers EVERYTHING)

No Alt+F4

Multiple animal companions (cat, dog, capybara, monkey, shiba)

Free forever, open source (MIT)

How it works

Pawzy uses Electron to create an always-on-top, fullscreen window that sits above

every other application. When your break timer fires, your animal companion slides

onto the screen and stays there until the break ends.…