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Desktop-pet projects on GitHub

Virtual pets and mascots that live on your desktop.

As of , the most-starred Desktop-pet projects on GitHub are BongoCat (24K stars), Open-LLM-VTuber (14.2K stars) and live2d-widget (11K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 19 Desktop-pet repositories with 76.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was dsh-pet, with +549 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+549

dsh-pet

PC2005-cloud/dsh-pet · ★ 2.3K

dsh-pet is a transparent animated desktop pet plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH): it idles, naps, solves a Rubik's cube, codes, eats hot pot and more across 97 hand-drawn animations, with click/drag physics and an optional balance-display bubble.

+138

dsh-pet-indesktop

MerZlin/dsh-pet-indesktop · ★ 1.3K

A standalone desktop pet (virtual pet) app built with Python and PySide6 for Windows, Linux and macOS. It shows an animated 'blue fat fish' character that floats on your desktop with dragging, a system tray icon, character switching and optional AI chat.

+75

deepseek-harness-desktop

dsh-tauri/deepseek-harness-desktop · ★ 3.3K

DeepSeek Harness Desktop is a native desktop wrapper for the DeepSeek Harness (dsh) AI agent CLI, built with Tauri so it ships as an 8MB installer with zero manual environment setup on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

+65

qqpet

AnkioTomas/qqpet · ★ 866

QQPet is a cross-platform remake of the classic QQ desktop pet (QQ宠物), rebuilt by reverse-engineering the original Arctic Penguin T800 client; it plays back the original Flash (SWF) assets through the Ruffle emulator and lets a virtual pet live on your Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, HarmonyOS, or iOS device with feeding, games, school/work, and travel features.

The all-time top

19 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ayangweb/BongoCat

    BongoCat

    BongoCat is a cross-platform desktop pet: a cat that sits on your screen and reacts in real time to your keyboard, mouse, and gamepad input. It's free, open source, and built with Tauri.

    24K
  2. #2 · Open-LLM-VTuber/Open-LLM-VTuber

    Open-LLM-VTuber

    Open-LLM-VTuber is a voice-interactive AI companion with a Live2D avatar that you talk to with your voice, running entirely offline on your own computer. It supports real-time voice conversations, visual perception (camera/screen), and can act as a virtual girlfriend, boyfriend, pet, or custom character.

    14.2K
  3. #3 · stevenjoezhang/live2d-widget

    live2d-widget

    A lightweight widget that drops a cute Live2D 'desktop companion' (看板娘) mascot onto a webpage, built in TypeScript with almost no runtime dependency besides the Live2D Cubism Core itself.

    11K
  1. 4

    clawd-on-desk

    6.5Krullerzhou-afk/clawd-on-desk · JavaScript

    Clawd on Desk is a pixel desktop pet that sits on your screen and reacts in real time to what your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) is doing, so you can tell from a glance when it's thinking, working, or done.

  2. 5

    petdex

    4.3Kcrafter-station/petdex · TypeScript

    Petdex is a public gallery, CLI installer, and desktop app that gives coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI and others an animated pet mascot that reacts to the agent's activity in real time.

  3. 6

    BongoCat

    3.8Kvladelaina/BongoCat · C

    BongoCat is an animated desktop pet: a bongo-drumming cat that lives on your screen and reacts to your keyboard and mouse input in real time, built with C/C++, SDL3, and OpenGL.

  4. 7

    deepseek-harness-desktop

    3.3Kdsh-tauri/deepseek-harness-desktop · TypeScript

    DeepSeek Harness Desktop is a native desktop wrapper for the DeepSeek Harness (dsh) AI agent CLI, built with Tauri so it ships as an 8MB installer with zero manual environment setup on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  5. 8

    dsh-pet

    2.3KPC2005-cloud/dsh-pet · TypeScript

    dsh-pet is a transparent animated desktop pet plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH): it idles, naps, solves a Rubik's cube, codes, eats hot pot and more across 97 hand-drawn animations, with click/drag physics and an optional balance-display bubble.

  6. 9

    dsh-pet-indesktop

    1.3KMerZlin/dsh-pet-indesktop · Python

    A standalone desktop pet (virtual pet) app built with Python and PySide6 for Windows, Linux and macOS. It shows an animated 'blue fat fish' character that floats on your desktop with dragging, a system tray icon, character switching and optional AI chat.

  7. 10

    desktop-fly

    1.1KDenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly · Swift

    DesktopFly is a 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop, animated by a live spiking simulation built from the real FlyWire fly-brain connectome (and a motor circuit from the MaleCNS dataset).

  8. 11

    qqpet

    866AnkioTomas/qqpet · TypeScript

    QQPet is a cross-platform remake of the classic QQ desktop pet (QQ宠物), rebuilt by reverse-engineering the original Arctic Penguin T800 client; it plays back the original Flash (SWF) assets through the Ruffle emulator and lets a virtual pet live on your Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, HarmonyOS, or iOS device with feeding, games, school/work, and travel features.

  9. 12

    deepseek-harness-desktop

    838ningbainb/deepseek-harness-desktop · JavaScript

    DeepSeek Harness Desktop is a community-maintained open-source Windows desktop client for DeepSeek Harness (DSH). It bundles the Harness web surface, local runtime, plugins, skills, Git tools, task automation and remote development into a single installable app.

  10. 13

    dsh_desktop

    716myYangyunfan/dsh_desktop · JavaScript

    DSH Desktop is an out-of-the-box desktop client that packages DeepSeek Harness (dsh) for Windows (with macOS/Linux builds in preview). It bundles a full Node.js runtime, the dsh CLI, and all official plugins so you can double-click and run without installing anything first.

  11. 14

    aora-bot

    494sam70361/aora-bot · JavaScript

    Emotion Ball is a facial-expression engine for AI assistants: 32 state-based expressions driven entirely by pure SVG and vanilla JavaScript, with zero frameworks and zero image assets. The AI side just outputs an emotionId and the ball switches to the matching expression.

  12. 15

    dsh-dafeiyu

    456QCYTSN/dsh-dafeiyu · JavaScript

    DSH BigFish (大肥鱼) is a desktop companion character that lives on your screen and visually reflects the real-time working status of DeepSeek Harness (DSH) agent sessions - thinking, working, waiting, error or done - shown as an always-on-top transparent window.

  13. 16

    bluey-by-riley

    443rbrown101010/bluey-by-riley · Swift

    Googly Eyes is a blueberry character that lives on your iPhone screen and points at things on your Mac with his own cursor. It pairs a Mac menu bar app with an iPhone app so he can see your screen, talk through OpenAI's Realtime API, and even control your computer when asked.

  14. 17

    Bigfish

    324turtle2209/Bigfish · JavaScript

    Bigfish is an unofficial Electron desktop client for DeepSeek Harness (dsh): it wraps the dsh local backend and its React web UI in a native window, so you never open a terminal, remember a port, or launch a browser. Install it and just double-click.

  15. 18

    PocketMen-with-you

    311six-nut/PocketMen-with-you · Python

    PocketMen with You turns 2+ of your photos into a high-fidelity, animated 'Codex companion' pet that runs entirely locally using open-weight image models instead of OpenAI's API.

  16. 19

    fly-paradise

    150pyd021226/fly-paradise · JavaScript

    Fly Paradise (果蝇乐园) is a Windows desktop virtual pet: a little colony of fruit flies lives and breeds right on your desktop.

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