A developer desktop companion that grows with your coding activity.
CommitCat lives on your desktop, watches your development environment locally, and reacts to your work — commits, coding time, focus sessions, and more.
🐱 A tiny coding partner that never judges you (even at 3 AM).
- 🐾 Desktop pet with pixel-art sprites — walks, sits, sleeps, and celebrates
- 👣 Menu bar / system tray companion (streak tooltip)
- 🖱️ Draggable — place it anywhere on your screen
- 💬 Click to chat (speech bubble reactions with personality)
- 💬 Random coding messages — cat reacts while you code
- 🎨 Multi-color cat (orange / brown / white)
- 💤 Sleeps when you're away
- 🖥️ Fullscreen-aware — auto-hides when you go fullscreen
- 🐙 Local Git commit & push tracking — reacts every time you commit
- 💻 IDE detection — knows when you're coding (VS Code, JetBrains, Xcode, and more)
- 🌙 Late-night coding awareness
- 🌱 XP & level system — grows with your activity
- 🔥 Streak system — 3/7/30-day milestones with bonus XP
- ✨ Pixel-art level-up animation with burst particles
- ⏱️ Pomodoro focus timer with break timer
- 📊 Daily summary timeline (right-click → Today) — view commits, coding time, XP earned, and event history
- 🐙 GitHub integration — PR open/merge XP, star notifications
- 🤖 Claude AI chat — double-click the cat to chat with your AI companion (Anthropic API)
- 🔔 macOS Notification Center — system notifications for key events
- 🔄 Auto-update checker — notifies when a new version is available
- ⚙️ Settings panel — manage watched repos, cat color, timer durations, API keys, and XP progress
- 🐳 Docker activity awareness — container start/build detection with XP
CommitCat gains XP from:
| Activity | XP |
|---|---|
| Git commit | +10 XP |
| Git push | +5 XP |
| 1 hour of coding | +5 XP |
| Late-night session | +15 XP |
| Pomodoro complete | +20 XP |
| GitHub PR opened | +20 XP |
| GitHub PR merged | +30 XP |
| Docker container start | +5 XP |
| Docker build complete | +15 XP |
| 3-day streak | +50 XP |
| 7-day streak | +100 XP |
| 30-day streak | +500 XP |
Level up formula: Level n → n+1 requires n × 100 XP
The more you build, the happier it becomes.
CommitCat is designed for developers who care about privacy.
- ❌ No code is collected
- ❌ No keystrokes are recorded
- ❌ No files are uploaded
- ❌ No telemetry by default
✔️ All data is stored locally on your machine ✔️ External integrations (GitHub, AI) are opt-in only
- ✅ macOS
- ✅ Windows
- ✅ Linux
Download from the Releases page.
macOS
CommitCat.dmg
Windows
CommitCat-Setup.exe
Linux
CommitCat.AppImage # Most distros
CommitCat.deb # Debian/Ubuntu
git clone https://github.com/eunseo9311/commit-cat.git
cd commit-cat
npm install
npm run tauri devRequirements: Node.js, Rust, Tauri CLI
- Tauri — lightweight desktop framework
- React — UI
- Rust — system integration, Git & IDE tracking
- Anthropic API — AI chat (optional)
MVP ✅
- Desktop pet rendering
- Activity & IDE detection
- Local Git integration
- XP & growth system
- Tray / menu bar UI
- Settings panel
v1 ✅
- Pomodoro focus timer with break timer
- Daily coding summary & event timeline
- GitHub integration (PR tracking, star notifications)
- Claude AI chat companion
- macOS notifications
- Windows support
Next
- Linux support
- Docker integration
- IDE plugins
- Custom skins
- Cloud sync (optional)
Contributions are welcome!
- Open an issue
- Suggest features
- Submit pull requests
MIT License
v1 feature-complete — actively developing If you like the idea, consider giving the repo a ⭐