How it works

You give it a few photos, it draws your cat or dog, and they live on your desktop. About a minute, start to finish.

Two ways in

Pick either. Your photos are read on your own machine both times — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.

Start with the app

Fewest steps

1
Download it for Mac or Windows and open it.
2
It greets you. Click Add photos.
3
Add the photos, check the likeness, done — they walk onto your desktop.

Get the app

Start in your browser

Nothing to install first

1
Make your pet here on the site.
2
Save the pet file it gives you.
3
Download the app, and open that file in it.

Make yours here

The part that matters: the photos

Both routes ask for the same four. They exist because between them they show every part of an animal the drawing needs — the first two are the important ones, and one ten-second video can stand in for all four.

Four photo slots: looking at you, from the side, sitting facing you, and their tail — each showing a drawn example cat. — Drag a photo onto each one. The drawn cat in each slot is the pose to aim for. You do not need all four — the first two are enough to start.

The likeness editor: the drawn pet on the left, and controls for name, colours, coat pattern, ears and tail on the right. — Then you see them, and fix anything that came out wrong: click one of their eyes to set the eye colour, then nudge the coat, the ears, the tail. In the app the button here says **Put them on my desktop**; in a browser it saves the pet file instead.

Two things people ask

What is a pet file?

It is your pet, as about thirty numbers — their colours, their markings, their shape. No photographs are in it. It is what the browser hands to the app, and it is small enough to email to someone. If you make your pet inside the app, there is no file to handle at all.

Where did the app go after I opened it?

Into the menu bar on a Mac, or the system tray on Windows — the little paw icon. Click the paw to add another pet, open Settings, resize them, hide them for a while, or quit — and everything there is also on your pet's own right-click menu.

Make yours → Get the app