DESKTOP MONKEY

FREE · OPEN SOURCE · 6 MB · NO ACCOUNT

A tiny monkey for your desktop

The desktop pet that follows your cursor, throws bananas, poops, and loves you. Windows & macOS, one 6 MB file, no dependencies, nothing to sign up for.

MACOS Click the line to copy

Signed & notarized by Apple.

WINDOWS
Download monkey.exe

No installer — double-click and he's alive.

He auto-updates himself — install once, he keeps himself young.

YOUR DESKTOP he lives here now
Your cursor is his best friend. He was not asked.

WHAT HE DOES

He has a surprisingly full schedule.

When the mouse sits still too long, he gets on with his own life — and none of it is your business.

FOLLOWS
Follows your cursor everywhere it goes. It's his best friend. It does not get a vote.
HUNTS
Hunts it down and whacks it with a banana. Every hit actually knocks your cursor back across the screen.
DIES (TEMPORARILY)
Takes your clicks: three hearts, a damage flash, loud complaints. At zero he keels over and his body lands on your taskbar.
CLIMBS
Climbs the screen edge, admires the view, then drops. The landing costs him a heart. He does it again anyway.
POOPS
Eats, digests… then poops behind him. Steaming. On your wallpaper. Click it to pop it.

AND THAT'S NOT ALL

  • Steals your cursor and runs off with it. Shake the mouse to break free.
  • Revive the dead by grabbing the body and shaking it. The power of love.
  • Cleans up his own poops — flings them off-screen, or at your cursor.
  • Tickle him: shake the mouse right next to him and he giggles.
  • Naps for real — lies down, little Z's float up. Any mouse move startles him awake.
  • Speaks English or French, auto-detected, in speech bubbles you can rewrite.

HE HAS MOODS

Four gauges run his whole life.

Energy, boredom, happiness and fear drift with how you treat him, and weight everything he decides to do. Peek at them any time in his tray menu.

  • Bored monkey → mischief. You brought this on yourself.
  • Scared monkey → keeps his distance and eyes you from the corner.
  • Drained monkey → eats a banana, then naps like it's a career.
  • Happy monkey → hangs around your cursor and says nice things.

tray menu

HOW HE'S DOING

Energy

Boredom

Happiness

Fear

Launch at startup Open settings… Quit (he'll be sad)

“just hanging around”

MAKE HIM YOURS

Tweak him until he's insufferable.

Open settings from his tray menu. Drag anything below — this is the real window.

DESKTOP MONKEY — SETTINGS

1.4×

0.5×3×

Live preview

He walks at the speed you set on the Life tab.

He restarts when you save. Takes about a second.

INSTALL

Ten seconds and he's yours.

One binary, about 6 MB. No account, no installer wizard, no telemetry, no window — he just lives on the desktop.

MACOS

Click the line to copy

  • Signed & notarized by Apple — it opens without a warning.
  • Launch Desktop Monkey from Spotlight. He shows up in your menu bar.

WINDOWS

Download monkey.exe

~6 MB · Windows 10 & 11

  • No installer — double-click and he's alive.
  • He appears in the notification area with the same little menu.

He auto-updates himself — install once, he keeps himself young. Source on GitHub →

FAQ

He died!

Grab the body and shake it. The power of love. He comes back a bit jittery.

He's too big.

Tray menu → Open settings → Size. Anywhere from 0.5× to a deeply unreasonable 3×.

Does he speak French?

Oui. He follows your system language, and you can force it in the settings.

How do I get rid of him?

You monster. brew uninstall --cask desktop-monkey, or delete monkey.exe.

ALSO FROM THE MONKEYS

He isn't an only child.

Two other free, open-source things we built. No accounts there either.

OPENSUPERWHISPER

Speak, it types — voice dictation in any app on your Mac. Four engines, three of them running entirely on your machine. No subscription, no account.

macOS · MIT · opensuperwhisper.com

CLAUDE MONITOR

A menu-bar app that counts your Claude Code instances and MCP servers, and kills a runaway swarm before it takes the whole Mac down.

macOS · MIT · GitHub