Desktop Pet

Living worlds

Two worlds that change with the day

A living meadow

A pixel meadow 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.

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.

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.

Under the hood

Everything it does

• Pick it up and throw it

  Grab the pet with your mouse and fling it. Its physics freeze while held, then it coasts across the screen and settles once it slows down.

• It plays with your cursor

  It darts away when your cursor gets close, then chases the trail you leave behind before losing interest and wandering off again.

• Toys with real physics

  It tosses toys that obey gravity, bounce off your window edges, and settle in the safe zones around your screen. Up to two on screen at once.

• Hats and throwables

  The pet dresses up and shows off, picking up little props and flinging them around as it moves.

• It sits on your windows

  It perches on title bars and window edges, and steers clear of your content area so it never covers the thing you are working on.

• Mini-actions

  Trigger scripted bits from the control panel: a full-screen football match, a workout, a shower, zoomies, a moonwalk, a good cry, and more. Small theatre on your desktop.

• In development

  Pets visit over the LAN

  It finds other instances on your local network over Bonjour. Accept a visit and a guest pet wanders in beside yours. Nothing leaves the LAN.

• In development

  Talk to it out loud

  Speak and it listens, with speech recognition feeding the on-device chat. The conversation never leaves your Mac.

• Gentle reminders

  It nudges you about things like lunch, surfacing scheduled reminders in its own speech bubbles instead of a notification banner.

• Two pets to choose from

  Pick the wiggly Bacterium or the caffeinated Alien from the control panel. Each has its own voice, moods, and way of wandering.

• You stay in control

  A menubar icon lets you switch states or quit, and a control panel exposes the pet picker and action triggers. Or script its state from any tool.

• It updates itself

  It quietly checks for new releases and updates on its own when one is ready, verifying the checksum and signature first. Turn it off any time.