Your Mac is missing someone.

Adopt a tiny creature that lives on your screen. It keeps you company, remembers you, eats your notes and files so you can find them later, and keeps your day on track — all while being extremely small and a little dramatic.

Adopt one — it's free Meet the characters

Free for Mac (macOS 14+) · No account · Nothing leaves your Mac

Pick your creature

32 characters. Click one — the one walking around this page changes instantly, and it's the one you'll take home.

What it does

Everything below works out of the box. No setup, no accounts, no jargon.

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It keeps you company

It walks around, naps when you're away, gets squished behind big windows — and yes, you can toss it and it bounces. It even climbs up and sits on your windows.

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It remembers you

Sit down in the morning and it greets you with what you were working on yesterday. Ask "what do you remember?" and it shows you everything — and how to erase it.

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Feed it anything

Drop a file on it — it eats it, files it away, and (with AI on) reads it so you can ask questions: "what's in that PDF from yesterday?" Or hit 🎙️ and just talk.

Chores that find you anywhere

Teach it in plain words — "every hour remind me to drink water," "at 12pm time to break my fast" — and it reaches your iPhone too, even when you're nowhere near your Mac.

It guards your focus

A 25-minute focus timer, held by a tiny creature that's counting. Somehow that works better than any app you've deleted.

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Share the moments

When it says something great, one click turns it into a beautiful card — or record an 8-second clip of its antics. Great for making coworkers jealous.

Want more brains? Flip on AI in Settings — it can even look at your screen and help. It's optional, and it can run 100% on your Mac for free (via Ollama). No AI needed for anything else.

Moments it makes for you

When your gremlin says something great — or you just want to show it off — one click turns it into a card like these. Real cards, made by the app, ready for iMessage or X.

A quote card: “I organized nothing today. Proud of it.” — Otter, resident desk gremlin
Adoption papers certifying Dino has been officially adopted as a resident desk gremlin
A weekly stats card: 9 focus sessions, 14 notes eaten, 23 questions answered — Me & Fox

It also records 8-second clips of its antics — bouncing, window-sitting, general mischief.

🔒 Everything stays on your Mac.

No account. No cloud. No tracking. Your notes, files, and memories live in one local database — the app even has a button that shows you every row of it.

No accountsNo servers of ours No telemetryAI is opt-in Free local AI supported

What's new

Checking the burrow…

Adoption papers

Gnaw is packed and ready.

One welcome email. No newsletter.
First launch: right-click the app → Open. That's the whole ceremony.

the gremlin