Install
Open the app
Invite-only · macOS notarized by Apple · Windows beta open
Your pet (cats and dogs for now),
right there on your desktop.
Up to five photos. Three minutes to your desktop. 7 actions follow as they finish.
📷 Up to 5 photos
⏱️ On screen in 3 minutes
🐾 7 actions
PetEcho macOS
Notarized by Apple · 0.1.0 (7)Apple silicon Macs, M1 and newerSHA-256: 55f93028d19464211f915fd05969626ec53d786afae33ccfcd1df6aaf9273e0b
PetEcho Windows
Private beta · 0.1.1 (6)Windows 10/11 · 394 MiBSHA-256: cb58fcfabedce043aef451ceaecf330a9a1a24c1502b899a6158f75f1af526c3
They move. And they notice you.
Kiki was made from real photos.
Showing Kiki
Move your mouse and Kiki follows it. Click for a head scratch.
Move your mouse and Kiki follows it. Click for a head scratch.
What Kiki gets up to
Idle runs on its own. The others load when you pick them, then settle back.
You were the sweetest dog, gentle with everyone you met.
I miss the way you looked when you were happy, and the way you looked at play.
I hope that, in another way, you can still be by my side.
From Kiki’s owner
Pick one and watch
🖥️ Sits above your windows
↔️ Drag it, resize it
⏱️ Keeps a focus timer
✨ New actions appear automatically
From photos to your desktop
All of it happens in the app.
Cat or dog
Tell it which
Pick photos
Up to five clear photos
Say hello
About three minutes
The rest follows
On its own, no restart
Opening it for the first time
Download only from this page. This website never asks you to upload photos.
macOS
Notarized by Apple. For Apple silicon Macs.
1
Download and unzip
Double-click the ZIP in Downloads.
2
Open the app
Double-click “Desktop Pet Beta.app”, or move it to Applications first.
3
Follow the steps
Pick photos, approve the poses, wait.
Windows Beta
Not code-signed yet. Windows 10/11.
1
Download and unzip everything
Keep the whole folder together; the .exe alone won’t run.
2
Double-click “Desktop Pet Beta.exe”
The beta uses its own data folder. A stable install stays untouched.
3
Handle the SmartScreen prompt
Check the SHA-256 on this page, then choose More info, then Run anyway.
Windows isn’t code-signed yet; macOS is notarized by Apple. Reporting something? Include your OS and version.
What happens to your photos
Full terms before open testing.
- 🎨Only to build your petThey make the figure, the poses and the movements. Nothing is published here.
- ☁️A third-party AI does the workYour photos pass through our server to a generation service.
- 💻The finished pet stays on your computerThe app finishes it locally and runs it there.
- 🙅Leave out what we don’t needKeep faces, documents and addresses out of frame.
- 🧾We haven’t set retention rulesUntil we do, no promise about how long anything is kept.
First invites going out soon
Two questions: does it look like them, and is it good to live with?
What we’ll want to hear
- Does it look like them?
- Was three minutes too long?
- Which movement did you like best?
- Where did you get stuck?
- Would you leave it running?
We’ll post here when signups open.