User Manual (Mac) · A little pet living on your desktop
No installer · No data collectionOnce installed, your little friend lives right on your desktop — out of your way, no babysitting needed.
Strolls around, jumps, climbs walls, hangs upside down from the ceiling — and yawns, stretches and blinks. You just do your thing.
Click it, drag it, fling it — it reacts to everything. Go ahead, it can't break.
Pops up a silly little quote now and then. Quotes update online automatically; built-in ones work offline too.
The bunny and the panda are just the start — more pets are on the way, and they can all play on your desktop together.
Drag it into Applications and you're done — under a minute.
Get the Mac package (.dmg or .zip), open it, and drag DeskBud into the Applications folder. Any location works, but don't run it straight from the dmg / zip — drag it out first.
The app isn't code-signed (notarized), so macOS will step in once on first launch — that's normal. If you see "cannot verify the developer", right-click DeskBud in Finder → "Open" → "Open" again; or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway". Allow it once and it'll be smooth afterwards (see FAQ below for details).
On the very first launch, wait 1–3 seconds before your pet appears. That's normal, not a freeze. Then it starts living its life on your desktop.
Just a few gestures — the rest is up to your pet.
Click it lightly and it opens a parachute, drifting down slowly.
Press and hold to charge up, then release — it rockets to the top of the screen and walks around upside down.
While it's hanging from the ceiling, click it once and it lets go — with a little bounce on landing.
Drag and fling it quickly — it flies, and on hitting the screen edge it climbs up the wall.
Hold and drag it anywhere. Hovering the pointer over it pauses it; move away and it resumes.
Walk left / right (super fast), orbit / custom circle (drag a rectangle for it to walk around), focus mode, resize, language, about; the pet wall in the upper half brings a buddy up or puts it back with one click, the pose card on the right has Adopt, and share, quit plus the website link sit at the very bottom. Trackpad users: two-finger click or Ctrl+click is right-click.
There's a Share button at the bottom of the menu — tap it and you get a card you can save as an image, or copy in one click and paste straight into WeChat.
Tick the ones you want — more pets are coming, and your crew can keep growing.
Right-click menu → the pet wall in the upper half → click the pets you want (the bunny and the panda for now) to bring them up. Click again to put one back — at least one must stay.
More and more new pets are coming — when they launch, just click them on the pet wall and they will all play on your desktop together. Grow your crew as you like.
Open a question for the answer — most issues take 10 seconds to fix.
xattr -cr /Applications/DeskBud.app.txt log file right next to the program. Send that file to the author for a quick diagnosis (contact via deskbud.net).