Desk Gremlin

What it does

Most desktop pets just sit there. Desk Gremlin works: click it for notes, reminders that reach your iPhone, focus timers, and screen recordings — plus an opt-in AI that answers questions, searches all your notes, looks at your screen, and calls your MCP tools. Privacy-first by design: everything lives in a local SQLite file you can inspect, zero telemetry, and AI can run fully on-device via Ollama. Free. macOS 14+.

Adopt a tiny creature for your Mac. It keeps you company, remembers you, eats your notes and files, and keeps your day on track. Free, no account, everything stays on your Mac.

Adopt a tiny creature that lives on your screen. It keeps you company, remembers you , eats your notes and files so you can find them later, and keeps your day on track — all while being extremely small and a little dramatic. 32 characters. Click one — the one walking around this page changes instantly, and it's the one you'll take home. Everything below works out of the box. No setup, no accounts, no jargon. It walks around, naps when you're away, gets squished behind big windows — and yes, you can toss it and it bounces. It even climbs up and sits on your windows. Sit down in the morning and it greets you with what you were working on yesterday. Ask "what do you remember?" and it shows…from deskgremlin.com

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