Meet Smoke & Friends
A delightful pixel-art desktop menagerie that brings warmth and playfulness to your Windows workspace. Watch Smoke and his companions climb on your active application windows, jam out to your tunes with headphones, crack open mystery acorn hats, and take cozy naps right by your mouse.
Choose Your Desk Companion
Each friend features unique procedural physics, customized idle quirks, sound bites, and personality traits.
Smoke the Cat 🐱
A sleek grey cat with glowing light-green eyes and a soft white chest tuft. Features liquid stretch physics, playful head-tilts, kneading paws, and cat-loaf naps.
Biggie the Turtle 🐢
A chill, unbothered Red-Eared Slider turtle with signature crimson ear stripes and a patterned pond-green shell. Plods along happily, stretches her neck for scritches, munches crisp leaves, tucks into her shell to turbo-spin across the taskbar, and hoards smooth river gems.
Cinder the Drake 🔥
A tiny ember dragon who sneezes glowing sparks, curls around warm application corners, and toasts invisible marshmallows when your CPU runs hot.
Scraps the Raccoon 🗑️
An inquisitive trash panda with nimble paws who inspects folder icons, washes imaginary snacks in your scrollbars, and hoards shiny pixel trinkets.
Sprout the Leaf Spirit 🍃
A serene woodland sprite that sheds floating glowing leaves, curls into a leafy bulb on your taskbar, and blooms with golden flowers when you finish tasks.
Barnaby the Owlbear 🐾
A fluffy owlbear cub with oversized ear-tufts, 180-degree curious head swivels, heavy thumping waddles, and cozy winter hibernation sessions.
Puddle the Slime 💧
A translucent bouncy gelatinous cube that jiggles against active windows, squishes through narrow gaps between apps, and absorbs tiny crumb particles.
Chester the Mimic 🎲
D&D TREASURE MIMICA toothy D&D treasure chest Mimic with False Appearance camouflage, glowing amber eyes, jagged wooden teeth, and a sticky purple pseudopod tongue. Lures you with shiny gold, licks your mouse cursor, and closes into an innocent wooden chest when napping!
Built for Windows with Native Physics
Lightweight, performant, and deeply integrated into your desktop workflow.
Native Win32 Window Parkour
Companions don't just wander aimlessly on the taskbar. Powered by native Koffi FFI edge detection, they detect active program windows (Chrome, VS Code, Discord, Steam), run along titlebar ledges, peer over window edges, and leap between apps.
Headphone Groove (Media Sensing)
Play music on Spotify, YouTube, or VLC, and watch your companion automatically slip on retro studio headphones and groove to the beat. Features rhythmic head-bobbing and optional glowing soundwaves.
Mischief Mode & Cursor Play
Turn on Mischief Mode for playful interactive shenanigans! Companions may gently bat at your cursor, leave fleeting paw prints across your desktop, or playfully peek out from behind your active windows.
Mystery Acorn Gacha & 7 Pixel Hats
Acorns naturally accumulate on your desktop over time. Crack them open to unlock 7 adorable wearable pixel hats: Top Hat, Wizard Cap, Party Cone, Frog Beanie, Viking Helm, Aviator Goggles, and Flower Crown.
Draggable Toys & Cozy Furniture
Furnish your desktop with interactive items: Scratching Post, Yarn Ball, Feeding Bowl, and Sunbeam Mat. Pick them up, drag them anywhere across multiple monitors, and watch pets interact with them organically.
Zero Install & 100% Offline Privacy
No installers, no Microsoft Store dependencies, no accounts, and zero internet telemetry. It runs completely offline from a single portable executable (~1.7 MB) with near-zero idle resource impact.
How to Interact with Your Menagerie
Windows SmartScreen & Unsigned Executable Notice
Because Smoke & Friends is an independent indie release created by Isprin and distributed without an expensive corporate digital signing certificate ($400+/year), Windows SmartScreen may show an "unrecognized app" blue banner when launched for the first time.
- Click "More info" on the SmartScreen popup
- Click "Run anyway"
- Enjoy your new desktop companions!
Adopt Smoke & Friends Today
Single-file portable executable. No installer, no background bloat, and 100% offline.