PipDesktop pet for macOS
A little pet that lives on your Mac.
Pip hangs out in the corner of your screen and naps in your menu bar. Feed it, play with it, and watch it grow. It never dies, never nags, and never phones home.
Pick your companion
Four creatures, one gentle world
Each one has its own look and color, and grows through the same four stages. Adopt up to all four and switch between them whenever you like.
Pip
The Slime
A squishy, easygoing blob. The one on the app icon, crown and all.
Momo
The Cat
A curious little furball with two pointy ears and a lot of opinions.
Sunny
The Chick
A cheerful fluffball with a tiny beak and a permanent good mood.
Boo
The Ghost
A shy, friendly spirit that floats in place and never quite touches the floor.
Care that never punishes
Pet, feed, play
Three little meters track how your pet is doing. Top them up whenever you pass by, or leave for a week. Pip waits for you either way.
- +Stepping away pauses everything. While you are gone, decay stops and your pet quietly naps to recover energy.
- +No death, no regression, no guilt. An empty meter just makes Pip look a little sleepy or hungry, never worse.
- +A daily care limit means you cannot rush it. Spamming the buttons is harmless and simply does nothing extra.
- +Tiny chimes on every pat and snack, with a switch to mute them when you want quiet.
It grows with you
From baby to final form
Every bit of care adds up. With a light touch, a pet reaches its crowned final form in one to three weeks. Stages never slip backward, so progress is always yours to keep.
- +Four stages: Baby, Juvenile, Adult, and a sparkly Final Form.
- +Each pet in your roster grows on its own. The ones you are not tending simply wait, frozen and safe.
- +The popover shows how close your pet is to its next stage.
Out of the way, until you want it
Lives in the corner and the menu bar
The floating pet sits in the bottom corner and lets your clicks pass straight through, so it never blocks your work or steals focus. Go full screen and it politely disappears.
- +The menu bar shows your pet's mood, tinted with the color of whoever is active.
- +Right click the menu bar icon for quick actions: pet, feed, play, switch, hide.
- +One tap on "Hide Pip" tucks it away until you want it back.
It has little thoughts
Small talk, all on device
Now and then a thought bubble pops up over your pet. On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, those lines are written on device by the built-in model. If it is unavailable, Pip falls back to a hand-written set of lines.
- +No API keys, no servers, no network calls. Ever.
- +Thoughts react to what is happening: a snack, a nap, or you coming back.
Private by design
Nothing leaves your Mac
Pip is a companion, not a data funnel. There is no sign up, no analytics, and no way for it to talk to a server, because it never does.
No tracking
No accounts, no analytics, no advertising identifiers. The privacy manifest declares exactly that.
Sandboxed
Runs inside the macOS App Sandbox. Its files live in the app's own container and nowhere else.
Presence, not spying
To know when you step away, Pip reads only the seconds since your last input. It never sees what you type or click.
A closer look
Pip on the desktop
Need help?
Support
Questions, bugs, feedback, anything at all. I read every email.
Samin Qureshi · Pip's developer
Bring Pip home
Adopt your first creature in a few seconds and let it settle into the corner of your screen.
Download for MacRequires macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon and Intel