A tiny 3D friend walks onto your screen and asks: did you drink water? Did you stretch? Time for a break? Say yes and it bounces with joy. Say "not yet" and… well, look at that face.
Momo · just nowHey hey! Did you drink water? 💧
Notifications get swiped away. Banners get muted. Reminders get ignored. But it's really hard to say no to someone small and hopeful who walked all the way across your screen just to ask if you're okay.
Set a daily goal and glass size. Your pet visits on your schedule, only during your active hours, and stops once you hit your goal.
Stretch every 30 minutes. Walk every 45. Rest your eyes every 20. Create any habit with an emoji and a goal, and your pet asks about it.
Pawse measures active use and pauses when you step away. After 30 minutes of continuous screen time, a calm full-screen break with tips like the 20-20-20 rule.
For the habits you're serious about: the pet covers the whole screen until you say yes. For water, any habit, or breaks. Emergency exit: hold Esc for 5 seconds.
Momo walks in with a bottle before your first meeting.
Your 30-minute stretch habit. Mochi waits for an answer.
30 minutes of screen time. A calm countdown, eyes off the screen.
Boo droops, sniffles, and floats back a little later.
8/8 glasses, 4 stretches. Your streak grows to 12 days.
hand-built 3D pets with voices and moods
network requests. Your data never leaves your Mac
forever. Free and open source under MIT
universal download for Apple silicon and Intel
macOS Ventura and every version since
default break rhythm, adjustable to anything
Five hand-built 3D desktop pets, each with its own walk, voice and personality. Tap the moods. Or drop in any .usdz model.
The chatty chibi. Has a real voice, offers you a water bottle and takes a big sip when you do.
Tail swishes, ears twitch, and a meow you won't want to ignore.
Waddles in and flaps both flippers when you drink. Pure joy.
Calm, chill, and carrying an orange on its head. Squeaks softly.
A gentle ghost bunny that floats in, ears streaming. Ooo~
Your pet covers the whole screen, and it only unlocks when you say yes. No snoozing, no ending breaks early. There's always an emergency exit: hold Esc for 5 seconds.
Pawse is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that reminds you to drink water, keep your habits and take breaks. Instead of a notification, a cute 3D pet walks onto your screen and asks you, for example "Did you drink water?". You answer yes or not yet.
Yes. Pawse is completely free and open source under the MIT licence. There are no ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases or accounts.
Pawse runs on macOS 13 Ventura, macOS 14 Sonoma, macOS 15 Sequoia and newer, on both Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4) and Intel Macs. The download is a universal app.
Open Pawse → Habits → Add → Stretch (or a custom habit), turn on "Pet reminds me" and set the interval to 30 minutes. Your pet will walk in every 30 minutes and ask "Did you stretch?". You can use any interval for any habit.
Yes. Pawse tracks active screen time from keyboard and mouse activity and, after 30 minutes of continuous use (adjustable), asks you to take a break. Breaks show a calm full-screen countdown with tips like the 20-20-20 eye rule. Stepping away for 3 minutes counts as a break automatically.
Hard block is an optional mode for water, any habit or breaks. When a reminder is due, the pet covers the whole screen and it only unlocks when you confirm you did it. Breaks in hard block cannot be snoozed or ended early. For safety, holding Esc for 5 seconds always unlocks.
No. Pawse makes no network requests and has no analytics or accounts. Your history stays on your Mac. For screen time it reads only how many seconds ago you last pressed a key or moved the mouse, never what you type or which apps you use.
Five 3D pets: Momo the Chibi (with a voice), Mochi the Cat, Pip the Penguin, Yuzu the Capybara and Boo the Ghost Bunny. You can also drop any .usdz 3D model into Pawse to use it as a pet.
Most reminder apps send notifications that are easy to swipe away. Pawse combines water tracking, habit reminders on any interval and screen-time breaks in one app, delivered by an animated pet with expressions and sounds, plus an optional hard block for habits you're serious about.
Free forever. Lives quietly in your menu bar until it's time to care.
⬇ Download Pawse for MacFirst launch: if macOS can't verify the developer, right-click Pawse in Applications → Open → Open. Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon & Intel.
