He notices the broad stuff.
Typing, coding, music, terminals, idle time, power changes—and then decides whether to react.
handcrafted for Linux
Your desktop
could use a little guy.
Mochi is a tiny pixel companion who wanders, naps, reacts to your desktop, works beside you, and now even holds onto things for you.
local-first
no cloud AI
open source
Fedora + GNOME
psst — you can drag me around
click Mochi · drag Mochi · click the desktop icons
🐸 desktop buddy
✦ handcrafted pixels
⌁ local awareness
▰ Pocket
☕ tiny coworker
♡ no streaks
⌨ open source
01 / not a widget
He’s meant to feel alive, not productive.
No streaks. No guilt. No “you missed yesterday.” Mochi is just a small character sharing your desktop with you.
He remembers time together.
Bond grows through normal interaction, without decay or punishment for going away.
Sometimes he just falls asleep.
Honestly? Same.
02 / try Pocket
Give Mochi something
to hold onto.
Pocket is a local-first shelf for files, folders, links, text, and dropped images. On the real app, originals stay where they are.
Pocket · 0
notes.txt
tiny important thoughts
portfolio/
a whole folder
dev.to/mochi
a link for later
On desktop, you can also drag one of these cards onto Mochi. Or drop a real local file here— this demo only reads its filename in your browser.
drop something on Mochi
Nothing here yet.
Mochi has room for ten things in the real app.
03 / poke the creature
A tiny animation
playground.
Every reaction is authored frame by frame. Pick one and bother Mochi.
idlehand-authored pixels
04 / AmbiSense
Aware of your desktop.
Not reading it.
Mochi’s awareness is local and rule-based. It works from coarse signals, not your words, document names, window titles, or screen contents.
activityyou type
coarse signal“typing pulse”
Mochi decidesreact or chill
never reads
- typed characters
- words or passwords
- window titles
- document names
- screen contents
05 / bring him home
Three commands.
One new roommate.
Fedora + GNOME + Wayland is the primary tested setup. Other Linux desktops are increasingly supported, but this is still alpha software.
Terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/miflow13/mochi-desktop.git
$ cd mochi-desktop
$ ./install.shcurrent main · v0.4 alpha line
06 / make Mochi weirder
You don’t have to write Python to contribute.
Mochi’s canonical Artist Kit is public: master reference, production sprites, exact dimensions, anchoring rules, animation conventions, and a submission template.
canonical
animate
contribute
Mochi is becoming a community project.
Meet the contributors ↗
v0.4.1 · Stabilization & Portability
Fedora + GNOME + Wayland is the primary tested environment.