A standalone macOS and Windows pet app with no chat, coding tools, accounts, or network services.
Petex lives in the menu bar / system tray. Its transparent companion window floats on the desktop. Click your pet to wave, hold for 550 ms to jump, drag to move, and right-click for its menu. Movement beyond 6 pixels starts a drag and cancels the long press. During dragging, v2 pets look in the movement direction using all 16 gaze poses; v1 pets use their left/right movement rows. Position updates run approximately every 16 ms while pressed, and direction filtering prevents flickering when slowing or stopping. Close settings with Done to leave your pet hanging out. Quit from the tray when you're finished.
What's new in 1.1.21
Petex still starts with one pet. Every new extra is off by default, under Settings → More. Turn off extras returns to the simple experience and keeps your saved setup. - Add up to four pets, including copies of the same pet. Pets can greet, follow, briefly chase and jump together. - Give pets individual preferences and visibility, choose a roaming display or draw an area. - Throw a ball, stroke pets while holding Shift, and choose quiet hours or inactivity routines. - Save and restore layouts. Enable library search, favourites and local names. - All new controls support English (UK), Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and French. Everything runs locally. Nothing is collected. The Store build keeps imports restricted to user-selected files; GitHub builds retain Codex imports. GitHub downloads remain unsigned until release-signing credentials are configured. Optional signing and notarization support is included in CI.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/iebb/petex/compare/v1.0.10...v1.0.12
Frequently asked questions
Is Petex free?
Yes. Petex is free and open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license.
What is the latest version of Petex?
The latest version is 1.1.21, released on Oct 21, 2026.
Is it safe to download Petex?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 1817d4dc9ad22756797ff3843edf57c7d643032e3e44ba42236402d54274ea38.
Which Windows versions does Petex support?
Petex runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
How do I install Petex silently?
Run the offline installer with "Petex-1.1.21-win-x64.exe" /S, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=iebb.Petex -e --silent.
How do I uninstall Petex?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Petex and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=iebb.Petex -e.
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