Leafy — Your Quiet Desktop Companion

🌱 Leafy — Your Quiet Desktop Companion

A small teardrop creature that lives on your screen.

It doesn't talk. It doesn't demand attention.

Its little sprout reveals how it truly feels.

✦ 7 moods — happy, excited, sleepy, sad, angry, curious, love

✦ Each mood grows a different companion plant beside it

✦ Hops around your desktop, stops to rest

✦ Watches your cursor when you get close

✦ Yawns when you forget about it 💤

✦ Click to change its mood, hover to excite it


The plant is the mood. The face never changes.

Perfect for those quiet moments waiting for code to compile, AI to respond, or just needing a small life on your screen.

macOS & Windows.

✦ Menu bar icon with Show/Hide and Launch at login
✦ Keeps time: sleepier late at night, curious in the morning, slower on weekends, dims in dark mode, stretches when your Mac wakes

✦ The plants follow the seasons: buds in spring, blooms in summer, warm leaves in autumn, snow caps in winter (Season setting for the southern hemisphere)
✦ The garden grows with the days you spend together: a sprout after two weeks, a little more after forty-five days, never anything taken away

✦ Remembers you, quietly: a little more affectionate when you play with it, one small hello when you show up at your usual hour, a curious welcome after days away. Never sad because you were gone. Everything stays on your machine.

Install

macOS: unzip, then drag Pixel Pets.app to Applications. The app is not notarized with Apple yet, so the first launch shows "Apple could not verify...". Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway, then launch again. Works on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Windows: unzip anywhere and run Pixel Pets.exe. SmartScreen may ask once; choose More info → Run anyway.

Right-click Leafy for opacity, size, behavior frequency, pause, reset position, and quit.