He paints while you work.
He sleeps when you don't.
A pixel dog who lives on your desktop, reacts to what you're actually doing, and runs clean off the edge of the screen the moment you go incognito.
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He's live. Drag him around, or right-click the desk.
He reacts to your day, not your keyboard.
Most desktop pets bounce when you hit a key. A small native helper tells Dozy what's actually in front of you — so he knows the difference between you thinking and you having left the room. Click through a day.
He leaves when you go private.
Open a private or incognito window and he's gone, on his own, without being asked. Nothing about that window gets written down — not the title, not the address. Close it and he trots back.
The honest version of a privacy promise: you can see him go. (Screen-share detection isn't built yet — until then, one menu-bar click sends him away.)
What leaves your Mac
Dozy watches what you're doing. That deserves a straight answer rather than a cute one, so here is the whole list — including the parts that aren't flattering.
- Your activity is never uploaded. No account, no sign-in, no sync. What you worked on lives in an encrypted database in your user library, and the key sits on your machine rather than in escrow somewhere.
- Three things do go out, and this is all of them. Dozy asks GitHub for a new version every couple of hours, sends a crash report to Sentry when it falls over, and fetches a site's icon from Google the first time you land on a new domain — so Google can see that domain, though nothing about the page itself.
- It never records keystrokes. Dozy reads the name of the app and window you're looking at. It does not read what you type, and it cannot see inside password fields.
- The timeline records your screen — onto your own disk. Turn it on and Dozy captures your screen to encrypted video on your Mac, with macOS asking for Screen Recording permission first. Leave it off and he never asks.
- There is nobody on the other end. No admin console, no team view, no manager's dashboard, no report. The app has no account system to attach one to.
- You can pause it, or wipe it. Stop Dozy from the menu bar, exclude specific apps, or delete the database outright. The one other copy that can exist is a backup you made yourself, to a folder you picked.
23 things he does when you're not looking
You won't see most of them on any given day, which is the point — catching a backflip should feel like catching a backflip.
And he remembers your day
Underneath the dog is a timeline of what you actually worked on — scroll it, search it, filter it. It's there for when you want to know where Tuesday went.
Questions people actually ask
What permissions does Dozy ask for?
Accessibility and browser automation, so he can tell which app and which tab is in front. Screen Recording as well, but only if you switch the timeline on.
Why does he need to know my browser tab?
That's the only way to tell a private window from a normal one, which is what triggers him to leave. He reads the tab's title and address; when the window is private, both are dropped rather than stored.
Will it slow down my Mac?
The pet is a small sprite renderer and the activity watcher is a lightweight native Swift helper. It is built to be unnoticeable, because a productivity pet that spins your fans is a joke.
Your Mac is lonely.
He's going out in small batches while the rough edges get sanded. You'll get a download link, not a newsletter.
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