# A living pet for your desktop XenPips puts a small 3D pet on your screen. It walks along the bottom above the taskbar or Dock, naps when you are busy, answers your clicks and keeps quiet while you watch a film or join a call. Windows and Mac, free. ## What a pet does on your desktop - **Lives along the bottom of the screen.** It walks above the taskbar or Dock, sits, plays and falls asleep when nobody pays attention. Bored, it wanders to your other monitor or chases the mouse. - **Answers your clicks.** One click and it hops with a heart. Two quick clicks make it turn around, three make it flip. Stroke it with the cursor and it melts. Pick it up and put it anywhere. - **Quiet when you need it.** Four modes: Active, Calm, Focus and Sleep. When a film, a game or a call goes fullscreen, it switches to Focus on its own and saves its bubbles for later. - **Light on your computer.** At rest a pet takes about 0.6% of the processor and 140 MB of memory on a Mac. It lives in one transparent window and in the tray or menu bar. - **It doesn’t read your screen.** To notice fullscreen it looks only at where windows are and how big they are, never at titles or contents. No screen recording permission. - **At home on a Mac.** On macOS the pet belongs to the monitor, so it stays with you when you swipe between Spaces and can stand over a fullscreen app. Signed and notarized by Apple. ## The pets Pick the one you like. NOX Classic and PIP Starter are free and need no account. NOX and XENA go to testers first, and two more are on the way. - [NOX Classic](https://xenpips.com/pets/nox-classic): The first NOX: a soft grey cartoon cat with whiskers. - [PIP Starter](https://xenpips.com/pets/pip): A curious little robot gull. Free, no account needed. - [NOX](https://xenpips.com/pets/nox): A glossy black robot cat with glowing cyan eyes. - [XENA](https://xenpips.com/pets/xena): A small commander with silver hair and a guardian drone. - [BYTE](https://xenpips.com/pets/byte): A raccoon who likes code. Coming later. - [EMBER](https://xenpips.com/pets/ember): A small dragon who grows with your habits. Coming later. ## Two pets at once Keep two pets on the desktop at the same time, for example PIP and NOX. They notice each other: when they meet, they greet, play or nap side by side. Each one has its own character. PIP flies and is curious about everything, NOX walks, pounces on the cursor and purrs when you stroke it. ## Your PIP from Skydex Skydex is a free browser flight game over the real Earth. If you play it, your PIP lives in XenPips with the colours, gear and stage you earned in the game. When you take off, PIP leaves the desktop and joins your flight as a wingman. Land, and he flies home. Or let him stay on the desktop and watch your catches pop up over his head. [How Skydex PIP works](https://xenpips.com/integrations/skydex) ## Coming next: a pet you can talk to The next update lets you talk to your pet. You will also be able to connect your own tools through MCP, the open protocol AI assistants use to reach other apps. Anything that changes something in your tools will wait for your yes in the pet’s bubble. It is not in the first release. We will write here and in the app when it is. ## What XenPips knows about you - Without an account it knows nothing about you. The pet lives on your computer. - Anonymous usage counts (how often you click the pet, how long it is awake) help us see whether the app is used. One switch in the menu turns them off. - With an account we keep your email or sign-in, your pets and the computers you linked. You can unlink a computer or delete the account yourself. ## Questions ### Is XenPips free? Yes. The app, NOX Classic and PIP Starter are free, and so is Skydex PIP with a Skydex account. Paid extras may come later; what is free now stays free. ### Does it work on Windows and Mac? Yes: Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) and macOS 12 or newer, on Intel and Apple silicon Macs. ### Will it slow my computer down? Measured on a Mac at rest, a pet takes about 0.6% of the processor and 140 MB of memory. In Sleep mode it does almost nothing. ### Does it see what I do on the screen? No. It looks at the position and size of windows only to notice fullscreen, never at their titles or contents, and it asks for no screen recording permission. ### Do I need an account? Not to start. NOX Classic and PIP Starter live on your desktop without one. An account lets you get testers’ pets, link several computers and connect Skydex. ## Get your pet Download XenPips for Windows or Mac, choose a pet and it appears on your desktop. [Download](https://xenpips.com/download)