A tiny black cat
that lives on your
Mac.

Cat Fidget is a native macOS app that puts a small interactive cat on your screen. It lives in the menu bar — there is no Dock icon. Let it hang calmly under the menu bar (Calm), follow your cursor Neko-style (Follow), stretch on an elastic leash (Elastic), or bounce around with physics (Bounce). Tap it, pet it, feed it, and fling it: it reacts with squash-and-stretch animation, soft sound, and haptics on supported trackpads.

Cat Fidget is a free desktop pet for Mac that lives in your menu bar. It has four on-screen behaviors — Calm, Follow, Elastic, and Bounce — an optional tamagotchi-style care loop (Devoted mode), a wardrobe of 10 breeds and 44 accessories, and a Custom Photo Pet that turns any photo into a living pet entirely on-device. The base app is free with no tracking and no network access.

Yes. Follow mode recreates the classic Neko behavior — the cat chases your cursor around the screen — then adds 60 fps physics, an elastic leash, squash-and-stretch animation, and your own photo pet. It's a modern take on the 1990s desktop cat.

Cat Fidget includes an optional tamagotchi-style care loop called Devoted mode. In Devoted mode, hunger, happiness, and energy matter: feed, play, and rest your cat to keep it well, build a daily care streak, level it up, and revive it from sickness. In Casual mode the stats drift harmlessly and it's purely a fidget toy. Either way, the cat never dies or runs away.

No. Cat Fidget is a small floating, transparent companion — not a full-screen overlay. It runs as a menu-bar app with no Dock icon and stays out of the way. You can hide the cat at any time from the menu-bar paw icon.

Yes. Cat Fidget claims one standard menu bar slot, behaves like any well-mannered macOS utility, and supports right-click for a context menu with all controls.

Yes. The free Custom Photo Pet feature lets you pick any photo and your Mac lifts the subject out of its background entirely on-device using Apple's Vision framework. The photo never leaves your Mac. The result becomes a living desktop pet you can pet and fling like any other.

Cat Fidget is planned as a free Mac App Store release with no subscription or ads. The repository includes all four behaviors, both care modes, the Classic Black cat, and the Custom Photo Pet in the base app. Planned purchases are optional, one-time cosmetics; Apple's live purchase sheet will show the final products and local prices.

The Cat Lover Pass is a one-time $9.99 in-app purchase that unlocks every current and future cosmetic in Cat Fidget — all 9 paid breeds, all 44 wardrobe accessories, and all 7 themed bundles. It is not a subscription. Pass holders automatically receive every new outfit drop at no extra cost. The pass is non-consumable, restorable across your Macs, and shareable through Family Sharing.

Cat Fidget ships with a 60-piece wardrobe: 10 cat breeds (Classic Black free; Ginger, Tuxedo, Siamese, Calico, Russian Blue, Tabby, Persian, Scottish Fold, and Sphynx at $1.99 each), 44 accessories across hats, eyewear, neckwear, body wear, and wings at $0.99 each, and 7 themed bundles (Halloween, Christmas, Valentine, Summer, Gentleman, Pirate, Royal) at $2.99 each. The Cat Lover Pass unlocks them all.

No. The cat gets sad, sleepy, or hungry if neglected, but it never disappears. Cat Fidget is designed to be calming, not stressful.

No. Cat Fidget has no account, no analytics, no tracking, and no network access at all. Your cat's name, stats, level, chosen coat, and any photo pet are stored only on your Mac. Nothing leaves your device, ever — and because the app has no network entitlement, it is technically incapable of sending anything.

Cat Fidget is designed for a 4+ App Store rating: it is friendly, non-violent, offline, and contains no advertising or third-party SDKs. Planned purchases are decorative cosmetics protected by Apple's standard purchase controls. The live listing will show the final age rating.

Cat Fidget is fully localized into 20 languages, including English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Arabic, and Indonesian.

Any Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are supported. Haptic feedback only fires on MacBook trackpads and the Magic Trackpad — it silently does nothing on other hardware.

Yes. Buy once, share with up to six family members through your Apple Family.

App Store purchases are handled by Apple. You can request a refund directly via reportaproblem.apple.com within Apple's policy window.