Frequently asked questions

An app that puts small 3D pets on your Windows or Mac desktop. They walk, sleep, react to your clicks and go quiet when something is fullscreen.

Yes. The app, PIP Starter and Skydex PIP (with a Skydex account) are free. Paid extras may come later; what is free now stays free.

Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) and macOS 12 or newer, on Intel and Apple silicon Macs.

Measured on a Mac at rest: about 0.6% of the processor and 140 MB of memory per pet. Sleep mode uses even less.

Yes, two at once. They notice each other and greet, play or nap together.

Choose Sleep or Hide in the pet’s menu or in the tray / menu bar icon. Focus mode keeps it on screen but quiet.

Yes. A bored pet visits your other monitors, and you can carry it to any of them.

No. To notice a fullscreen app it looks only at where windows are and how big they are, never at their titles or contents. It asks for no screen recording permission.

Without an account: anonymous usage counts once an hour, which you can turn off, and a daily update check. With an account: what the account needs, listed in the privacy policy.

Delete the account in its settings, or write to [email protected]. Usage counts are anonymous and are deleted after about 30 days.

The PIP you raise in Skydex, a free browser flight game. In XenPips he keeps his colours, gear and stage and joins your flights.

Install XenPips when it is out. It finds the old link on your computer and connects Skydex without a new code.

Not in the first release. Talking to your pet and connecting your tools through MCP come in the next update.

Yes. NOX, XENA and NOX Classic go to testers first, BYTE and EMBER are planned, and other games and apps can bring their own pets as integrations.

Not yet. A way for artists and developers to add pets is planned; see the developers page.