Pocket Pets: Desktop Pet

Pocket Pets is a cute screen pet app. Shimeji-style pixel and chibi pets walk, climb, nap and play on top of any app. Pick a desktop pet or draw your own! Made by hand, no AI art, no subscription: every pet can be earned for free.

NEW: CHIBI PETS & EMOJI BATTERY
- Chibi pets: big glossy eyes, soft shading and rosy cheeks, next to the pixel classics. Puff Cat is free, the others unlock with a short video
- Emoji battery: a cute battery in your status bar, a home screen widget and notch styles. Build your own with any emoji, a photo or one of your pets
- Charging show: a full-screen effect when you plug in the charger
- Stickers that float, sway or spin beside your pets
- Hide in apps: pick the apps where everything steps aside
- The app now speaks 9 languages

YOUR PETS ON YOUR WATCH (WEAR OS)
- See every pet on your Wear OS smartwatch and how hungry, sleepy, playful and loved it feels
- Give a pat or a snack from your wrist, or toss a toy onto your phone screen

PET CARE & PET BRAIN
- Feed your pets and play with toys: snacks are free, extra treats and toys come from a short video
- Pets roam anywhere on screen or inside a zone you draw, play together and nap side by side
- Press and hold a pet for quick actions
- 3 pets are free; watch a short video to add more, up to 8

HALLOWEEN & CHRISTMAS PACKS, PHOTO PETS & SHARING
- Halloween pets: Witch Cat, Boo Ghost, Vampire Bear and Pumpkin Bunny
- Christmas pets: Santa Cat, Rudy Reindeer, Snowy the snowman and Ginger Bear, with snowflakes and jingle bells
- Turn any photo into a pixel pet in one tap, then animate it
- Share your pets with friends as a file and import theirs
- Go ad-free for 24 hours with one short video

PETS THAT FEEL ALIVE
- 15 ready-made pets: 10 pixel pets and 5 chibi pets, from Orange Cat and Shiba Pup to Puff Cat and Ember Fox
- They wave and cheer when they meet each other, climb the edge of your screen, fall, bounce, snack and nap with floating Zzz
- Tap a pet to make it happy, drag it to carry it around, long-press for quick actions

YOU'RE IN CONTROL
- Choose what a tap or double-tap does: jump, dance, say hello, feed, play or sleep
- Hide your pets for 15 min, 1 h or 3 h, or right from the notification
- Pets nap until you tap them, and react when you plug in the charger or the battery runs low
- Pet size and speed sliders

MAKE YOUR OWN IN PETS STUDIO
- Clone any pet and edit every pixel in the built-in animation editor
- Zoom in, onion-skin the previous frame, undo, fill and erase; recolor a whole pet with one long-press
- Up to 24 animations per pet, each with its own sound, hearts, dust puff or vibration

40+ TRIGGERS: YOU CHOOSE WHEN IT PLAYS
Taps, shaking your phone, unlocking the screen, plugging in the charger, music playing, headphones, low or full battery, the time of day, the day of the week, a date like Christmas, silent mode, no internet, a dark room, and more.

PRIVACY
No account is needed. Your pets, drawings and sounds stay on your phone. Pocket Pets never reads the content of other apps. The optional status bar battery uses Android's accessibility service only to draw over the status bar; it reads no screen content.

HOW IT WORKS
Pocket Pets needs the "Display over other apps" permission to draw your pets on top of other apps. A small notification keeps your pets running, and you can tap Stop in it at any time. Pets step aside while Pocket Pets is open and come back when you switch to another app. The app is free and shows ads inside the app only, never on top of other apps.

Questions or ideas for new pets? Write to cp.public.work@gmail.com

Looking for a pet on your phone screen, a chibi desktop pet, an emoji battery for your status bar, or a shimeji alternative for Android? Pocket Pets brings a living screen pet to your home screen and your watch, with a pixel pet maker, custom animations and sounds built in.