Quakpit is a macOS menu bar app that connects to your calendar and sends an animal-piloted plane flying across your screen before your meetings start. A duck, a dinosaur, a pigeon, a capybara, or a dog, your choice, cruises across your display towing a banner with your meeting name and how long you have left. Hard to ignore. Impossible to hate. Free to download & open source. Connect your calendar, pick your animal, never miss a meeting.
Quakpit started as a side experiment, I wanted to build my first macOS app and see if I could actually ship something.
So I built a tiny app that sends a duck-piloted plane flying across your screen when a meeting is about to start, with a banner showing how many minutes you have left. I posted one tweet about it with zero expectations.
It blew up.
Hundreds of people asked for the same thing: more animals, custom banners, sounds, calendar integrations. Turns out nobody actually likes boring notification popups.
So I built it properly. Here's what Quakpit does today: 🦆 Connects to your calendar and triggers a flying animation before your meetings ✈️ A plane crosses your screen with a banner showing your meeting name + time left 🦕 Choose your pilot — duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog 🆓 Completely free and open source ⭐ One-time $4.99 premium for custom banners, sounds, animals and more
It's built with love. And the open source part is real, the full free experience is on GitHub.
Would love to hear which animal you'd pick as your co-pilot 👇
I mean...I just have to clap. Always love these creative ideas coming to life and productized. :D
capybara, no contest. if an unbothered little guy is calmly flying across my screen telling me i’m late, i’ll probably listen.
love the mix of useful + ridiculous here. boring meeting popups are way too easy to mentally mute.
Saw this on Twitter the other day. Super fun. These are the kinds of apps I want to see here more often :)
First feedback: Why not access the local apple calendar directly? So I don't have to connect to iCloud / Google?
Genuinely the most charming product on PH today. Somehow a duck towing a banner is harder to ignore than the macOS notification I dismiss reflexively a hundred times a day. Honest question: is the capybara winning in your usage data? I need to know if my taste matches the median user.
Okay this is legit awesome. Going to try to download and install now!
Will provide feedback if I have any :).
It looks cute! Will the notification be seen to others if I'd sharing the screen during the video call?
this is the first calendar tool i've seen in years where the feature set made me actually laugh. open source too. what made you pick the plane mechanic specifically over something like a walking animation or a popup
This is such a delightful app. I'll get excited for every meeting if this is how I'm reminded of it.
I just sent this yesterday as a reference to a friend for great solutions for people who need novelty to get things done. Love this, Tom.
P.S. Also loving the banner going through the Ooble Studio website.
Love this. Such a small idea but way more memorable than another boring calendar notification. The flying plane + animal pilots makes it really fun. Clean execution and open source is a big plus.
Corgi is definitely my co-pilot 👨✈️🐶
About QuakPit on Product Hunt
“Meeting reminders that actually make you smile.”
QuakPit launched on Product Hunt on May 26th, 2026 and earned 169 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Quakpit is a macOS menu bar app that connects to your calendar and sends an animal-piloted plane flying across your screen before your meetings start. A duck, a dinosaur, a pigeon, a capybara, or a dog, your choice, cruises across your display towing a banner with your meeting name and how long you have left. Hard to ignore. Impossible to hate. Free to download & open source. Connect your calendar, pick your animal, never miss a meeting.
QuakPit was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Productivity (652.4k followers), Meetings (6.5k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 168k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted QuakPit?
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Tom
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Quakpit started as a side experiment, I wanted to build my first macOS app and see if I could actually ship something.
So I built a tiny app that sends a duck-piloted plane flying across your screen when a meeting is about to start, with a banner showing how many minutes you have left. I posted one tweet about it with zero expectations.
It blew up.
Hundreds of people asked for the same thing: more animals, custom banners, sounds, calendar integrations. Turns out nobody actually likes boring notification popups.
So I built it properly. Here's what Quakpit does today:
🦆 Connects to your calendar and triggers a flying animation before your meetings
✈️ A plane crosses your screen with a banner showing your meeting name + time left
🦕 Choose your pilot — duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog
🆓 Completely free and open source
⭐ One-time $4.99 premium for custom banners, sounds, animals and more
It's built with love. And the open source part is real, the full free experience is on GitHub.
Would love to hear which animal you'd pick as your co-pilot 👇