staywith.petDownload for Mac

Changelog

What's new

New versions of the Mac app, changes to how pets are made, and updates to this site. The app checks for updates once a day; you can also choose Check for updates in the menu bar.

Mac app

1.0.8 (2026-09-28)

  • Pixel pets: ten little pixel-art cats and dogs (Ginger, Pepper, Smokey, Mochi, Biscuit, Honey, Scout, Bear, Koda and Waffles) come with every pet you keep. Find them under Your pets, give them a name, and put one on your desktop. They walk the Dock, nap on windows, and have a few moves of their own.

1.0.7 (2026-09-28)

  • The app updates itself. It checks once a day and asks before installing; you can also choose Check for updates in the menu bar. Every update is signed, and the app refuses any that isn't.
  • Your pet's own recordings follow you to all your Macs.

1.0.6 (2026-09-27)

  • The sleeping pet in the Dock icon has a clean outline (it had a speckled blue and green edge).

1.0.5 (2026-09-27)

  • Sounds can be switched off from the menu bar panel and the right-click menu, as well as in Settings, where there is also a volume slider.
  • Use your own pet's voice: in Settings, choose a recording for "When picked up" and "When thrown". Reset goes back to the built-in sounds. Recordings are kept on this Mac.
  • The purr stops as soon as the pet is put down, and never runs longer than 20 seconds.

1.0.4 (2026-09-27)

  • Sounds: a cat purrs while you hold it and meows when thrown; a dog cries to be put down and yelps when thrown. Pitch follows the pet's size.
  • Up on a window, a cat settles into a loaf instead of sitting.
  • The pet no longer walks on the spot at the edge of the screen.

1.0.3 (2026-09-27)

  • Your pet likes high places: when it wants to rest and a window has room above it, it jumps up and rests on top of the window.

1.0.2 (2026-09-27)

  • A home in the Dock. The app's Dock icon is your pet's bed: send the pet home and it curls up asleep in the icon; click the icon to wake it. A setting turns the Dock icon off.
  • Sleeping pets close their eyes, and blinks look like blinks.
  • A calmer tail: it no longer flips up and down with every step.
  • The pet stays inside the screen: it could walk off the edge after its entrance was interrupted.

1.0.1 (2026-09-27)

  • The new laptop-peek logo in the app icon, the menu bar and the app window.
  • The app is called staywith.pet everywhere.

1.0.0 (2026-09-26)

  • First public release: your pet on the desktop, with walking, trotting, sitting, lying down, sleeping, grooming, jumping onto windows, being picked up and thrown, a dark app window and a menu bar panel.

Pets (the generator)

2026-09-27

  • Cats walk and trot like cats: a level back, a steady head and the tail carried up. (They used a dog's recorded walk before, which made them crouch.)
  • Sleep is a curled-up cat with its tail wrapped round, or a dog with its chin on its paws.
  • Grooming is a proper wash: a cat licks its chest and then a raised paw; a dog lies down and licks a front paw. It starts and ends standing instead of snapping into a sit.
  • Sitting, lying and sleeping pets rest on the floor instead of sinking into the bottom of the screen, and the tail lies on the ground round the pet.
  • Every pet gets a closed-eyes version of its texture for sleep and blinks.
  • A cat's sit is tidier from the side.

2026-09-26

  • Rest poses (sit, lie, sleep) are fitted to each pet's own body.
  • Recorded dog motion for walking, trotting and idling.

2026-09-25

  • First version of the generator: photos in, a rigged and animated 3D pet out.

Website

2026-09-28

  • Pixel pets on the homepage, the pricing and the FAQ: ten come with every pet you keep.
  • A What's new page (this changelog), also shown as the release notes for app updates.
  • The golden retriever and Persian guides show our own Sunny and Snow in 3D.

2026-09-27

  • Download clicks are measured (Google Analytics now, Google Ads conversion "App download click" once its ID and label are filled in).
  • The memorial gift page has a gentle "When you're ready" button, and every guide page has a share image.
  • Guides: desktop pet for Mac, custom desktop pet, Shimeji alternative, gifts for pet lovers, pet memorial gifts, pet loss gift ideas, best desktop pets, what a desktop pet is, and whether desktop pets are safe. Plus a guide for each of 20 cat and dog breeds.
  • A "tell me when gift codes are ready" signup on the gift page.
  • Personal share links are kept out of search results (their previews still show in chats).
  • Email to hello@staywith.pet reaches the team's Google Workspace inbox.
  • Discount codes at checkout.
  • "Another pet" is now $9 (was $12).
  • Checkout shows staywith.pet with its own logo (it showed the parent business before).
  • New logo everywhere, share images, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and search engine basics.
  • The owners' admin console: users, their pets and generations, and product analytics.

2026-09-26

  • Launch: new site, accounts, checkout with Dodo Payments, downloads.