Pettery
Pettery is a tiny pet that lives in your Mac menu bar and lives off your battery. It gets hungry at 20%, panics at 10%, is starving at 5%, and sleeps while charging, so plugging in your Mac is how you feed it. Free to start with 3 pets, 68 pets at launch, pay once, no subscription.
Pettery is a menu bar pet for Mac users that lives off your battery: it gets hungry at 20%, panics at 10%, and starves at 5%, guilt-tripping you into charging before your Mac dies. It has a bunch of collectible pets with pay-once pricing, no subscription, no account, and works fully offline.
Key features
- Battery-reactive virtual pet in the menu bar
- Works offline
- No account, no subscription
Pettery is useful for
- Remembering to charge your MacBook before the battery dies
- Adding a playful companion to your Mac while you work
An indie alternative to Mac Pet, Cat Fidget and RunCat.
Submitted by Pettery
Reward: 5 credits per test
1 approved tests, 1 total
Platforms: macos
Built for: general
Pricing: Freemium
Verified testimonials
Verbatim excerpts from tests on IndieAppCircle, chosen by the maker. 1 approved tests in total; testers appear under a pseudonym.
…Pettery has a really good first impression. The website's hero section immediately explains the concept: a cute little pet that lives in your menu bar and keeps you company while monitoring your battery. After installing the app, Mochi feels familiar, friendly, and genuinely enjoyable. It makes me feel like something I'd actually keep using.
— Noa, tested Nov 2026
About Pettery
Is Pettery really free?
Yes. Mochi, Boba and Bolt are free forever, with every feature, moods, reactions, notifications, renaming. Paid pets are purely about which face you want in your menu bar. There is no subscription anywhere in Pettery.
Will it drain my battery? (Ironic if so.)
It would be embarrassing, so no: Pettery is a small menu bar app that simply reads the battery level macOS already knows about.
What does the pet actually do at low battery?
Its mood slides from Hungry to Very hungry to Panic and Critical, and at 20%, 10% and 5% it sends a notification asking, politely, then less politely, to be fed. Notifications are the only system permission Pettery ever requests.
Is Pettery legit?
Pettery was listed on IndieAppCircle in November 2026 by Pettery, who opened it to independent testers. 1 independent tester has used it since and had their feedback accepted by the maker. It is distributed through its own website at getpettery.app. IndieAppCircle is a peer feedback exchange, not a paid-review site: testers earn credits only for feedback the maker accepts, and nobody is paid to be positive. We record what happened here; we do not vouch for a product's business practices.
What platforms does Pettery run on?
Pettery runs on macOS. The maker built it for a general audience.
Is Pettery free?
Pettery uses a free plan with paid upgrades.
What is Pettery an alternative to?
Pettery is built as an indie alternative to Mac Pet, Cat Fidget and RunCat.
Is Pettery still looking for testers?
Yes. The maker pays 5 credits for each approved test. Sign in to IndieAppCircle, open the test instructions on this page, try the app and write up what worked, what confused you and what broke. Once the maker approves your feedback the credits are yours; feedback left unanswered for 48 hours is approved automatically.
How do testers review Pettery on IndieAppCircle?
Testers are other indie developers. They open Pettery, follow the maker's test instructions, and write up first impressions, confusing moments and bugs. The maker reads each write-up and either approves it — which pays the tester — or rejects it. Only approved feedback is counted on this page. There are no star ratings and IndieAppCircle pays nobody to review anything; it is a feedback exchange, not a review site.
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