v1.0.19 · mac & windows

Your AI desktop pet for devs.

VibePet waddles around your screen while you code — boosting your AI prompts, remembering your clipboard, tracking tasks on a pixel kanban board, and goofing off with mini-games between builds.

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Open source · No account needed · Lives 100% on your machine

Developed by SalhanTech

what it does

Superpowers in your tray

Prompt Boost

Type a prompt in Cursor, ChatGPT or Claude, hit ⌘/Ctrl+Enter and the duck rewrites it for sharper results — then sends it.

To-Do Board

A pixel kanban overlay (⌘⇧T) with drag-and-drop columns, sparkles when you finish a task, and daily Excel-friendly exports on quit.

Code Assist

Arm Explain Code or Find Bug, select up to 10 lines, and get a scrollable AI answer in a bubble above the duck.

Clipboard Memory

Everything you copy is remembered locally — text and images — with one-tap re-copy from the duck assistant.

Context Aware

The duck only shows up over coding & AI apps, follows your active window across monitors, and gets out of your way.

Fully Customisable

Upload your own sprite sheets, name your pet, swap the base art, and pick any OpenRouter model you like.

new in v1.0.18

Pixel to-do board

Three columns — To Do, Doing, Done. Drag tasks between them, get sparkles when you finish one, and auto-export a daily spreadsheet when you quit. Press ⌘⇧T in the app.

To Do2

⠿Ship the kanban board
⠿Write unit tests

Doing1

⠿Review open PRs

Done1

⠿Update changelog

Try it — drag a card into Done for sparkles ✨

how to use

Meet your new keybinds

Press ⌘⇧/ anytime in the app for the full cheat sheet above the duck.

Tap

Say hi — the duck waves and drops a little message.

Long-press

Open the mini-game menu (Bread Catch / Duck Runner).

Double-click

Open the assistant panel with your clipboard history.

⌘ / Ctrl + ↵

Boost the prompt in your active AI chat box.

⌘ / Ctrl + ⇧ + D

Toggle the assistant panel.

⌘ / Ctrl + ⇧ + T

Open the pixel to-do board (kanban).

⌘ / Ctrl + ⇧ + /

Show all keyboard shortcuts above the duck.

⌘ / Ctrl + ⇧ + Space

Call the duck back — snaps it to screen centre.

⌘ / Ctrl + ⇧ + E → ⌥ E

Arm then run Explain Code on your selection.

⌘ / Ctrl + ⇧ + B → ⌥ B

Arm then run Find Bug on your selection.

take a break

Mini-games between builds

Waiting on a long generation? Long-press the duck and play — right on top of your transparent desktop, so your code keeps running behind the scenes.

🍞 Bread Catch

arcade

Click the sky to drop loaves of bread. Steer the duck to catch them, fill the happiness meter, and watch it celebrate at max combo.

+score

🌵 Duck Runner

endless

A Chrome-dino-style dash. Tap to jump the cacti, chase a high score, and watch the speed ramp up the longer you survive.

get started

Install in 60 seconds

macOS

1Download the .dmg (Apple Silicon).
2Open it and drag VibePet into Applications.
3First launch: right-click the app → Open, then confirm (bypasses Gatekeeper).
4Grant Accessibility permission so Prompt Boost can read your chat box.

⚠ if macOS blocks it ("damaged" / "can't verify")

Quickest: open Terminal, run this once, then open the app normally:

xattr -cr /Applications/VibePet.app

Or (macOS 15 Sequoia): double-click the app → Done, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.

This is expected for free, unsigned apps — only Apple notarization (a paid account) removes the prompt entirely.

Download .dmg (Apple Silicon)

Windows

1Download the matching -setup.exe (x64 for most PCs, arm64 for ARM laptops).
2Run it. If SmartScreen appears, click "More info → Run anyway".
3Finish the installer and launch VibePet from the Start menu.
4Open a coding/AI app — your pet appears and starts vibing.

⚠ if windows blocks it

• On the blue SmartScreen popup, click More info → Run anyway.
• Still blocked? Right-click the .exe → Properties, tick Unblock, then Apply.
• If Defender quarantines it, open Windows Security → Protection history and choose Allow.

This is normal for free, unsigned apps — a paid code-signing certificate is the only way to remove the warning.