A living meadow
Hand-drawn pixel terrain with a full day and night cycle. Sunrise and sunset follow your timezone, the grass sways, and fireflies come out at night. A deer grazes, and you can opt into birds, critters, and cats.
Products Work in progress
Desktop Pet
A tiny pixel-art creature that lives on your screen, reacts to what you're doing, and stays out of your way. It comes with living ambient worlds that change with the time of day and the season.
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acabelloj/desktop-pet-releases/main/install.sh) - Native macOS, built in Swift and AppKit
- Near-zero CPU Adaptive frame rate when idle
- On-device AI Chat stays on your Mac (macOS 26+)
- Signed releases Ed25519, verified before install
Living worlds
Two worlds that change with the day
And a deep sea
Switch the world to an Atlantic underwater scene with its own day, night, and seasonal water. A shark patrols the depths and flees the moment you move your cursor toward it.
It is not a widget or a notification. It is a small life that happens at the edge of your screen while you work.
A pet with personality
It does not just sit there
Meet the Bacterium
The default pet is a wiggly, unbothered microorganism that chats back, on-device, in its own strange voice.
It knows what you're doing
It reads your activity and shifts between coding, reviewing, idle, and blocked, while staying out of your way.
It has moods
It glows, sulks, and shows off, treating your desktop as a stage for whatever it is feeling.
From the maker
Why I made it
I just wanted something to animate my screen. A bit of life in the corner while I worked. It turned into more than that. On my lowest days, the little creature wandering around down there has been quiet company, and I keep building it because it keeps me company back.
Get Desktop Pet
macOS 13+. One command.
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acabelloj/desktop-pet-releases/main/install.sh)