The buddy
roadmap.

Where each buddy stands

• Max, the builder. Available to choose now. Max’s 3D build has 37 activities, 33 props and 8 moods, and keeps learning more.
• Avery, the thinker. Available to choose now. Avery’s 3D build has 39 activities, 38 props and 8 moods, and keeps learning more.
• Racer, the racer. Available to choose now. Racer’s 3D build has 37 activities, 33 props and 6 moods, and keeps learning more.
• Businessman, the boss. Available to choose now. Businessman’s 3D build has 39 activities, 34 props and 6 moods, and keeps learning more.
• Juno, the desktop salvager. Juno joins next, once his tool kit and a couple of build details are finished.
• Aadi, the kite runner. Aadi joins after Juno, once his kite, movement and details are ready.

Why there are no dates

We plan in release order, not on a calendar. A buddy joins when their 3D build is finished properly: the face, hands, props, activities and moods all have to hold up when the character is tiny on your desktop, and some of that work takes longer than we expect. A date we later have to move helps nobody, so we share the order the work happens in and send an email when a buddy unlocks. Until then, a locked buddy can’t be added to a cart or charged.

The apps: Mac and Windows, both released

Mac: released on 14 September 2026. The Mac app runs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later, as one universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. It updates itself in the background.

Windows: released too. It runs on Windows 10 or 11, on x64 or Arm, and it is portable: one self-contained .exe for each, kept wherever you like, with nothing installed. On a PC your buddies stand on the taskbar instead of the Dock, and they do the same things there. It is not code-signed yet, so the first time you open it Windows says “Windows protected your PC”: choose More info, then Run anyway. A certificate is on the list, and that warning is better read here than met cold.

Either way it is one account: members sign in on this website, get the app and sign in to it with the same email; the buddies they own download into it. One computer at a time, Mac or PC, so sign out in the app on one before you use the other.

What your buddies already notice

This one is easy to read as a plan, so to be clear: it is built and it ships in both apps. Switch on “React to what’s happening on my Mac” (“on my PC” on Windows) in Settings and a buddy answers what the computer is doing. They stretch or go for a coffee when you have been away from the keyboard, doze while the screen is locked, cheer when the charger goes in, and wind down at night. Switch on AI mode as well and they follow your coding agents: heads-down typing and debugging while a Claude Code or Codex session is working, a wave or a jump when one is waiting on your approval, a quiet read when they have all gone idle.

It is off until you turn it on, and it stays on your computer. What it reads is the charger, how long since the last key or click, whether the screen is locked or asleep, the clock, and the agent session files already on your disk: when they last changed, and the last few kilobytes of the newest ones, which is what tells a working session from one waiting on you. Nothing is uploaded, nothing from those files is stored, and none of it needs a permission dialog.

Stress busters: Dumpling Dock

Coming, on the same terms as everything else here: no date. Alongside the buddies we are adding a few small stress busters to the app, for when work gets heavy. The first is Dumpling Dock: a soft 3D dumpling on your Dock that squishes and wobbles when you click it, then settles back. It is not a buddy, and we will share the details when it is ready. See every stress buster.

Ideas we’re exploring

None of the following is built, and none of it is a promise. It is the list we keep arguing about, in no particular order, and it has no dates for the same reason the buddies don’t. If one of these is the thing that would make a buddy worth it to you, tell us and it moves up the list.

• More stress busters. Dumpling Dock is the first small one; we would like a few more of them in the app, for the afternoons that need one.
• More from an agent session. A buddy can already tell a working session from one waiting on you; reacting to what the session actually did, like a long run finally finishing, is the interesting part and is not built.
• Notifications you can live with. Your buddy walking something over and waiting to be clicked, instead of one more banner in the corner.
• Meetings and calendar events. A nudge from your buddy a few minutes before a call starts, read from the calendar you already keep.
• Builds and test runs. A reaction when a long build or test run finishes, so you can look away from the terminal while it goes.
• A break after a long stretch. A buddy who notices you have been at it for hours and suggests standing up, once, not every twenty minutes.
• Quiet while you present. Buddies who hold still, or step off entirely, while you are screen-sharing or presenting.
• Reactions you choose. Which activity answers which signal is a JSON file you can hand-edit today, and it belongs in Settings.
• More buddies, and more for each one. New characters as they finish, and new activities, props and moods for the ones you already own.