Brand and product facts.

Nibling lives in your Mac's menu bar, keeps selected moments, and writes a Sunday Letter about the week it experienced.

What Nibling is

Nibling is a tiny companion that lives in the Mac menu bar. You hatch and name your own pet. It notices a few local Mac signals, develops moods, and builds a persistent identity over time. Its Room reflects how things are going, it keeps selected moments in a Journal, and it writes a Sunday Letter about the week it experienced.

Platform
macOS
Category
Menu-bar companion for macOS
Positioning
A small creature that quietly shares life on your Mac. It is not a productivity tool, a monitoring utility, or an AI assistant.
Availability
Coming to the Mac App Store.
Developer
Evangelos Mpagiatis

What it does

  • Lives in the menu bar rather than the Dock
  • Hatch and name your own pet
  • Notices a few local Mac signals, such as battery level and sleep/wake
  • Develops moods over time
  • A Room that reflects how things are going
  • Keeps selected moments in a Journal
  • Writes a Sunday Letter about the week it experienced
  • Keeps a persistent identity across normal use

Privacy

  • No account or sign-in
  • No analytics
  • No ads
  • No third-party tracking
  • No Nibling cloud service receiving pet data
  • The pet's state is stored locally
  • Optional iCloud backup and restore use your own Apple account
  • App Store privacy declaration: Data Not Collected

Read the privacy policy

Screenshots

These are real screens from the app. They are shown here for reference; downloadable press assets are not published yet.

boo emerging from an egg in Nibling's hatching screen.
Hatching
Nibling's naming screen, with boo entered as this pet's name.
Naming
boo in an excited state with the Room tab selected.
The Room
boo's Journal with selected entries, including the passage transcribed on the page.
The Journal

How to describe Nibling

Use these

  • A tiny companion that lives in the Mac menu bar
  • Notices a few local signals
  • Keeps selected moments
  • Writes a Sunday Letter about the week it experienced

Avoid these, they are inaccurate

  • AI assistant or chatbot
  • Monitoring or surveillance utility
  • Activity or productivity tracker
  • Wellness or productivity coach
  • Anything implying it reads messages, documents, browsing history, keystrokes, camera, or microphone