A tiny desktop pet for your Mac that types along with you
A small illustrated animal sits in the corner of your Mac's screen, reacts as you type and click, and naps when you pause. Choose which season earns XP and unlock dozens of Paw-Paws and 100+ items as you level up. Free and native; one optional $2.99 add-on.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Vanja. My wife and I make Paw-Paw.
It's a little animal that lives in the corner of your Mac's screen. It taps along as you type and click, naps when you stop, and now and then says something kind. As you work you earn XP and unlock new Paw-Paws and items for them to wear. Clicks beside it go straight through to the window underneath, so it never gets in the way.
The latest version, 0.2.3, opens on a new Home page with news and your progress, and a short tour that starts right beside your Paw-Paw on the desktop. You choose which season or collection earns your XP, Open All handles a pile of gifts at once, and signing in on another Mac brings your progress along in one step. Updates download in the background, and new items can arrive without an app update.
Paw-Paw is free, with no ads, subscription or required account. Both seasons, with dozens of Paw-Paws and 100+ items, unlock through play. There's one optional extra: the Illustrain Collection, with illustrations by Illustrain, for $2.99 once. We love cute art and want Paw-Paw to be a place where small artists' characters can come to life.
On privacy: Paw-Paw needs Accessibility permission to notice that a key or click happened. It counts those events and never logs or sends what you type. Analytics and crash reports are off unless you opt in.
A note on how it's made: much of the Paw-Paw and item art, and a lot of the code, was made with AI help, and I review, adjust and test all of it. The Illustrain Collection is the artist's own work.
It's a native Swift app for macOS 13+, on Apple silicon and Intel.
One thing I'd love to hear: which animal would you want on your desktop next, and what would it wear?
About Paw-Paw on Product Hunt
“A tiny desktop pet for your Mac that types along with you”
Paw-Paw launched on Product Hunt on October 8th, 2026 and earned 93 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. A small illustrated animal sits in the corner of your Mac's screen, reacts as you type and click, and naps when you pause. Choose which season earns XP and unlock dozens of Paw-Paws and 100+ items as you level up. Free and native; one optional $2.99 add-on.
On the analytics side, Paw-Paw competes within Mac, Productivity and Games — topics that collectively have 866k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Paw-Paw performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Paw-Paw?
Paw-Paw was hunted by Vanja Ivancevic. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Paw-Paw including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Vanja Ivancevic
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Vanja. My wife and I make Paw-Paw.
It's a little animal that lives in the corner of your Mac's screen. It taps along as you type and click, naps when you stop, and now and then says something kind. As you work you earn XP and unlock new Paw-Paws and items for them to wear. Clicks beside it go straight through to the window underneath, so it never gets in the way.
The latest version, 0.2.3, opens on a new Home page with news and your progress, and a short tour that starts right beside your Paw-Paw on the desktop. You choose which season or collection earns your XP, Open All handles a pile of gifts at once, and signing in on another Mac brings your progress along in one step. Updates download in the background, and new items can arrive without an app update.
Paw-Paw is free, with no ads, subscription or required account. Both seasons, with dozens of Paw-Paws and 100+ items, unlock through play. There's one optional extra: the Illustrain Collection, with illustrations by Illustrain, for $2.99 once. We love cute art and want Paw-Paw to be a place where small artists' characters can come to life.
On privacy: Paw-Paw needs Accessibility permission to notice that a key or click happened. It counts those events and never logs or sends what you type. Analytics and crash reports are off unless you opt in.
A note on how it's made: much of the Paw-Paw and item art, and a lot of the code, was made with AI help, and I review, adjust and test all of it. The Illustrain Collection is the artist's own work.
It's a native Swift app for macOS 13+, on Apple silicon and Intel.
One thing I'd love to hear: which animal would you want on your desktop next, and what would it wear?