Your notch has a pet.

Gobbl moves a tiny creature into your MacBook's notch. It gobbles the files you drop, keeps your clipboard, dances to your music and nudges you before meetings.

Free & open source · macOS 14 or later · Works on Macs without a notch too · First release soon

Everything the notch should do.

A drag-and-drop shelf, a clipboard, a music player, and more. All on your Mac, nothing sent anywhere.

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File shelf

Drop files on the notch, drag them out later. AirDrop, share, Quick Look.

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File tools

Convert and compress images, PDFs and video. Remove backgrounds. Copy text from any image.

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Clipboard history

⇧⌘Space opens everything you copied, searchable, with pins. Passwords are never saved.

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Now playing

Artwork and controls for Spotify, Music, YouTube and more. Gob dances along.

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Volume & brightness

Sleek readouts in the notch instead of the big system popups. Caps Lock too.

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Next meeting

Your next event with a one-click Join, and a nudge five minutes before.

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Focus timer

Pomodoro in the notch. Gob throws a tiny party when you finish.

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Battery & awake

Charging and low-battery alerts, and keep-awake in one click.

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Cheers on your AI agent

Connect Claude Code or Codex. Gob works along, celebrates when a task finishes, and lets you Allow or Deny prompts from the notch.

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Clips in one click

Render a 6-second clip of your pet as MP4 and GIF, or record your real notch. Made for sharing.

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Shake to drop

Shake while dragging a file and a drop basket appears right under your pointer.

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Little tools

Mute your mic, pick a colour, copy text from anywhere on screen, switch sound output, see synced lyrics.

Blob or retro computer. Your colours.

Hatch a squishy blob or a little 80s computer that eats files through its floppy slot. Earn 11 hats with streaks and seasons, then design a skin and share it: skins are tiny .gobskin files anyone can double-click to try.

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Two characters

Same moods, same tricks. Switch any time.

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11 hats

Party hat, beanie, headphones, halo, crown, plus seasonal ones for Halloween, Diwali and December.

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Skins you can share

Pick colours, save, share. Drop someone's skin on your notch and Gob wears it.

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Daily streaks

Use your Mac, keep your streak, unlock more. Gob never nags.

Every Gobbl hatches different.

Your pet hatches from an egg on first launch. Eight species, from common Mochi to legendary Cosmo, and 1 in 100 hatch shiny. Feed it files and it levels up and evolves. Then show it off with its pet card.

Click the egg

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. Gobbl is MIT-licensed and open source, by Xeve. No account, no subscription, no ads.

Does it drain my battery?

No. At rest Gobbl uses about 0% CPU: Gob only redraws to blink, and nothing polls in the background except a cheap clipboard check.

My Mac doesn't have a notch.

Gobbl shows a small pill at the top of the screen instead, on any display you like.

What does it collect?

Nothing. Clipboard history and the shelf live only on your Mac. Permissions (Accessibility, Calendar) are optional and asked only when you turn a feature on.

Can I make my own pet?

Custom skins are coming. Star the repo to follow along.