How to Get a Desktop Pet on Your Computer

Getting a desktop pet on your computer takes a couple of minutes. It is a small animated character that lives on your screen and keeps you company while you work. Here is how to get one on a Mac or a Windows PC, step by step.

On a Mac

• Open the Mac download page and download PebbletsIO.
• Open the app. It runs natively on Apple Silicon, on macOS 14 or newer.
• Say hello to the free duck, which arrives to start you off.

On Windows

• Open the Windows download page and get PebbletsIO from the Microsoft Store.
• It runs on Windows 10 (21H2) and 11 with a DirectX 12 GPU.
• Launch it, and your free duck is there waiting.

Picking your companion

The free duck is yours to keep. When you want more, every other pet is bought once and stays yours forever, with no subscription. You can meet them all on the companions page, and if you want a show there is a whole K-pop idol line that dances on your desktop. Not sure it will slow your machine down? It should not, and we explain why in this guide.