MacBook Notch & Desktop Pet Guides
Guides to pets that live in your MacBook notch or on your desktop. How notch companions work, how desktop pets compare, and how to look after one.
Desktop Pets for Mac: A 2026 Comparison
Desktop pets for Mac compared: where each app lives, its platform and price, with a source for each app other than Nibbii. Nibbii publishes this page.
Read guide →Desktop Goose on Mac: What It Does, How to Quit It
What Desktop Goose does on a Mac, Apple's general steps to quit and remove any Mac app, and what can be said about its safety. Nibbii publishes this page.
Read guide →How to Put a Pet in Your MacBook Notch
Setup on macOS 15+, and what Nibbii does on a Mac with no notch.
Read guide →Nibbii vs. Dockling
What each app says about itself, with sources. Nibbii publishes this page and is one of the apps compared.
Read guide →Nibbii vs. Mac Pet
Screen position, timers, music reactions and pricing. Nibbii publishes this page and is one of the apps compared.
Read guide →Nibbii vs Pets Therapy
A crowd of roaming pets or one pet in your notch: what each app offers and costs, with sources. Nibbii publishes this page.
Read guide →A Tamagotchi for Your MacBook: Pixel Pets for Mac
From the Tamagotchi in 1996 to Touch Bar pets and the MacBook notch, with sources. Plus a pixel pet that lives in your notch today.
Read guide →Pixel Pals vs. Nibbii: Where Each App Is Listed
Where each app is listed and priced, with a source for each Pixel Pals fact. Nibbii publishes this page and is one of the apps compared.
Read guide →MacBook Notch Apps and Games: What Each Does
What each MacBook notch app and notch game says about itself, and where Nibbii, a pixel pet that lives in your notch, fits. Nibbii publishes this page.
Read guide →Shimeji on Mac: What Works and How to Open It
Kilkakon's Shimeji-ee says it runs only on Windows. The Mac ports, the browser extension and Apple's steps for opening them. Nibbii publishes this page.
Read guide →Dynamic Island for Mac: Can You Get One?
What Apple shows from your iPhone in the Mac menu bar, and what five notch apps that call themselves a Dynamic Island say they do. Nibbii publishes this page.
Read guide →AI Desktop Companions for Mac: What Each One Can See
What AikoMate, Desktop Companion, OpenPets and Nibbii can see, where the AI runs and what each costs. Nibbii publishes this page.
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