# Pettery

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.

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.

## Facts
- Category: Utilities
- Pricing: Freemium
- Platforms: macOS
- Built for: general
- Listed since: November 2026
- Approved tests: 1 (1 total)
- Link: https://getpettery.app

## Key features
- Battery-reactive virtual pet in the menu bar
- Works offline
- No account, no subscription

## Use cases
- Remembering to charge your MacBook before the battery dies
- Adding a playful companion to your Mac while you work

## Alternative to
Mac Pet, Cat Fidget and RunCat.

## FAQ
### 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.

### 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 on IndieAppCircle.

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Full page: https://www.indieappcircle.com/apps/j57dmgm9tagnwfyce8mcthh0zn8j16tb