Your AI agent deserves a pet.
Codogotchi lives in your menubar and animates in real time to what your agent is doing — coding, thinking, testing, erroring, waiting. A cute little buddy inside your workflow.
Live capture of the real menubar pet · hearts, level & mood move with your agent
Four ways to get a pet
Start with Maew, hatch something new, adopt a buddy, or draw your own.
Meet Maew
The charming default pet who ships with the app. A cute-flirty buddy in a white sundress, animated across all 19 agent states out of the box.
Meet her arrow_forwardHatch your own with AI
Describe a pet or drop a seed image and your agent generates a full animated spritesheet for you — one row at a time — via the hatch-codogotchi skill.
Hatch a pet arrow_forwardBrowse the gallery
Browse pets hatched and hand-drawn by other developers, then drop the folder into ~/.codogotchi/pets/ and switch to it in Settings → Pet.
Browse the gallery arrow_forwardBring your own spritesheet
Hand-draw a Codex-compatible sheet using the reference spec — an 8-column grid with a 192×208 cell. Tier 1 is all you need to start.
Read the spec arrow_forwardReacts to your agent
The pet's animation changes per activity — implementing, testing, thinking, reading, cramming, errored, standby. 19 states driven by real lifecycle hooks, not a spinner.
Tiered spritesheets
Tier 1 (Codex 8×9) is the required base. Tier 2 (Lite-Basic 8×9) adds per-activity art. Tier 3 (Lite-Enhanced 8×8) adds polish states. Tier 4 (Son-of-Anton 8×10) lights up delivery gates.
RPG layer (coming soon) soon
Your pet already earns levels and half-hearts from real coding activity. XP, leaderboards, and a social feed are on the way — free, no pay-to-win.
Native. It barely touches your Mac.
We ran Codogotchi next to the popular Electron-based alternative on the same Mac, reacting to the same coding session. Swift + SpriteKit stays light and lively; a bundled browser engine doesn't.
Measured live on the same Mac (Apple M1 Pro) while both pets reacted to the same coding session. Codogotchi v1.1.0 vs OpenPets v3.1.0.
Install Codogotchi
macOS · arm64 Download Codogotchi.dmg
— open it and drag Codogotchi to /Applications.
Clear the quarantine flag (unsigned build — one-time)
Launch and approve the Welcome to Codogotchi consent sheet — installs hooks for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot & Antigravity. No Terminal required after this.