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My Dock Buddies makes small, stylized 3D characters, called buddies, that live on your Mac desktop as companions. Max and Avery can be chosen now; Juno is coming next, with Aadi following him. The Mac app is a free download for anyone; sign in, and the buddies you own appear on top of their Dock. Each buddy is a one-time purchase; there is no subscription today.

Every available buddy is a one-time $4.99 / ₹479 unlock, and that is the whole price. The Mac app is a free download; the buddies are the paid part. Nothing renews and nothing expires, so there is nothing to cancel. Prices are quoted in US dollars and Indian rupees — choose yours in the site header — and any tax is added at checkout.

Not today. Memberships are coming soon. Today every buddy is a one-time purchase and yours to keep. Memberships are planned — Monthly at $5 / ₹480 a month, Annual at $20 / ₹1,920 a year and Lifetime at $50 / ₹4,800 once — and you can see them on the pricing page, marked coming soon. That pricing is planned, not for sale, and may change before launch. Every membership will include every buddy, the ones out now and every new one: while you stay subscribed on Monthly and Annual, and for good on Lifetime. Any buddy you buy now stays yours when memberships arrive.

Yes. Choose ₹ IND in the site header and every price, your cart and the payment page switch to rupees: a buddy is ₹479. Choose $ US for US dollars. The currency is fixed when you start checkout, so what you were quoted is what you pay. Custom buddy requests and gifts are quoted in US dollars only.

Yes. Every additional available buddy is the same one-time $4.99 / ₹479 unlock, bought whenever you like. There is no recurring charge of any kind, and the buddies you own stay in your library for good.

You pay on a secure checkout page run by our payment partner. It handles the payment, adds any tax and sends your receipt. Your buddies appear in your library as soon as the payment goes through, usually within seconds, and in the Mac app at its next check-in, or straight away with Refresh purchases.

Yes, you can enter a coupon code at checkout.

No, all sales are final, including for a change of mind. We always put right a double charge, a wrong amount or something you paid for that never unlocked, if you tell us within 14 days of the charge. If we can’t deliver a custom buddy, we refund that payment in full.

There is nothing to cancel. Buddies are bought once, not subscribed to, so you are never charged again and your buddies do not expire. If memberships ship later, they will be cancellable from your library at any time.

No. You bought them outright, so they stay in your library and keep working, with every new activity we add to them included at no extra cost.

We email you a 6-digit code and a one-tap sign-in button, and either one signs you in. There is no password. The Mac app signs you in with the same emailed 6-digit code. Your plan, characters, orders and custom buddies are all kept in your account’s library.

From the download page: “Get the Mac app” at the foot of every page. It is free, and you can take it signed in or not. The app is a direct download, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, not a Mac App Store app. Open it, agree to the terms and sign in with an active plan and at least one buddy, and the buddies you own step onto your Dock. Updates download in the background and install when you quit the app.

Anyone. The app is a free download and needs no account. The buddies are the paid part: every character is encrypted to the account that bought it and to the Mac it was downloaded on, so a signed-out app opens to an empty Dock. Sign in with an active plan and at least one buddy, and only the buddies your account has paid for appear and download.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later. It is one universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. It needs the internet to sign in and download your buddies, and it checks in every 4 hours and when you sign in or out. If it can’t reach us, your buddies keep working for up to 14 days, then pause until the app checks in again.

It lives in the menu bar, and your buddies stand on top of your Dock, up to two at a time. In Settings you choose each buddy’s size (Small, Medium, Large or Extra large), where they roam (in their spot, along the Dock or across the whole screen) and whether they explore on their own. Click a buddy’s left or right side and they run that way; click the middle and they stop, think it over and look up at you; press and drag one to move them along the Dock. Right-click a buddy for moods, actions and stories. The app can open at login.

One Mac per account. To move to another Mac, sign out in the app on the old Mac first; signing out removes your buddies and account data from that Mac. If a Mac is lost, contact us from the help page and we will free your account. Your plan, buddies and custom buddies belong to the account that bought them.

Max and Avery are the launch crew and can be chosen now. Juno is coming next, with Aadi following him; both are coming soon. Every unfinished buddy is visibly locked and cannot enter checkout.

Max has 37 activities, 33 props and 8 moods. Avery has 39 activities, 38 props and 8 moods. Racer has 37 activities, 33 props and 6 moods. Businessman has 39 activities, 34 props and 6 moods. The moods are happy, sad, focused, surprised, tired, thinking, laughing and excited. New activities are added regularly and are included for members at no extra cost.

Yes, regularly. We keep teaching every buddy new things to do, and we ask members for ideas. Members get all of it as part of their plan, with nothing extra to buy. Have an idea? Send it through the contact page.

Yes, with an Annual or Lifetime plan. Adults can request a stylized character of themselves or another consenting adult: one request at a time, and at most one a day. Sign in, tell us about the person, add three to five photos, and we set a price before you pay anything. Your buddy is a stylized 3D character, not an exact match of anyone’s face.

Each custom buddy is priced individually, and sending a request costs nothing. We put a price in your library before any work starts; you pay it up front, and we aim to deliver within 72 hours of payment. Small tweaks after the first look are free; bigger changes such as new colors, outfits or accessories are priced separately.

We aim to deliver within 72 hours of payment. If we need more time, we tell you and ask for it. If we still can’t deliver, we refund your payment in full; that is the only refund for custom work. Small tweaks after the first look are free; bigger changes such as new colors, outfits or accessories are priced separately, because each render takes about 4 hours of paid GPU time.

No, we don’t make buddies of children. Custom buddies are only of yourself or another adult who has agreed to it, and everyone in the reference photos must be at least 18.

Yes, as a one-off custom buddy for your own personal use. We make it as a private one-off for you and never list it in the store. Our base designs may be reused for other custom buddies (see the Terms). Named characters of real people only appear in the store with that person’s written agreement, and we never imply an endorsement that does not exist.

Only you. Custom requests belong to your account: you follow progress in your library, only you can unlock the finished buddy, and we never list it in the store or use it in marketing without your permission. We delete your photos 30 days after we deliver your buddy, or within 30 days if the request is declined, cancelled or refunded.

No, we never use your reference photos to train AI or anything else. Only our team sees them, we use them only to make your buddy, and we never show them publicly or use them in promotion. We delete them 30 days after delivery, or within 30 days if the request is declined, cancelled or refunded.

No, every buddy, custom ones included, belongs to the account that bought it. It is for personal, non-commercial use on your own devices, so please don’t resell, share or post the character files, or share your membership.

It is an optional thank-you that helps us make new characters and activities. It is not a character purchase or charity donation, and it does not unlock anything, change delivery priority or add to a custom order. You choose the amount, from $1.