Meet your new desktop companion.

Desktop Duck lounges on your screen, waddling around and saving you from long-work-session despair.

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100K+ downloads 8 unique hats free forever zero tracking cursor breadcrumbs fully customisable 100% private 0 ads. ever. 100K+ downloads 8 unique hats free forever zero tracking cursor breadcrumbs fully customisable 100% private 0 ads. ever.

Customise

Make it yours.

Pick a colour, slap on a hat. Your duck in the app looks exactly like this.

Duck Color
Hat

Why Desktop Duck?

More alive than your wallpaper.

It wanders. It naps. It judges silently. It's the desktop companion you didn't know you needed.

🖥️

Always On Desk

Desktop Duck lounges on your screen, waddling around saving you from long-work-session despair. Productivity optional, entertainment mandatory.

Always watching 👀
💬

Zero Sass, All Support

Unlike your ex, Desktop Duck listens without interrupting, judges silently, and occasionally flaps for moral support.

Emotionally available 💛
🎨

Barely Customisable

8 hats, 8 body colors, five moods. Name your duck on first launch. The holographic control panel floats at the edge of your screen.

Fully yours 🎩
🪟

Works Everywhere

Windows and macOS. Hides politely in your system tray when you don't need em.

⚡

Ultra Lightweight

~12MB. Barely any memory or CPU. Your laptop won't even notice it's there.

💤

Auto Sleep

Leave the desk 60s and your duck finds a pillow and dreams little duck dreams.

🔒

100% Private

No accounts, no tracking, no nonsense. Just you and your duck. That's it. Quack.

By the numbers

Ducks on screens worldwide.

100K+Downloads
4.9 ⭐Avg Rating
FreeAlways
100%Productivity Reports

Desktop Duck will always be free.

Feed The Duck

Get Started

Up and quacking in under a minute.

01

Download

Click the big yellow button and grab the installer for your OS. Windows or Mac, we've got you.

02

Install

Run the installer. Desktop Duck appears on your screen instantly. Name your duck when prompted.

03

Quack!

Click your duck, customise it, and enjoy your new companion.

What people say

They love their ducks.

★★★★★

"I named mine Gerald. He follows my cursor everywhere and I've genuinely started saying goodnight to him when I close my laptop."

@pixelwitch
Designer, Berlin
★★★★★

"Came for the duck, stayed for the hard hat. My productivity is the same but my desktop energy is immaculate."

@raeburn.works
Illustrator, Melbourne
★★★★★

"I put it in free roam mode and just watched it wander around. Zero work got done. Five stars."

@tomas_dev
Software Engineer, Porto

Ready to meet your duck?

Join thousands of happy users who have a little yellow companion making their desktop royally awesome.

⬇️ Download for Windows ⬇️ Download for Mac ❤️ Donate

Windows 10+ · macOS 12+ · No telemetry · ~4MB

Seeing a security warning? That's normal — here's how to fix it.

🛡️ Bypassing Windows SmartScreen Takes about 10 seconds
01
Run the installer
Double-click the downloaded .exe file. A blue "Windows protected your PC" dialog will appear — this is expected for indie apps without an expensive certificate.
02
Click "More info"
In the SmartScreen dialog, click the More info link in small text below the warning message. The dialog will expand to show more options.
03
Click "Run anyway"
A Run anyway button will now appear at the bottom of the dialog. Click it and Desktop Duck will install normally.
🦆 Why does this happen? Windows SmartScreen flags apps that haven't built up enough download history yet. Desktop Duck is completely safe — no telemetry, no tracking, nothing shady. The warning disappears as more people download it.
🔒 Bypassing macOS Gatekeeper Takes about 30 seconds
01
Download and open the .dmg
Download the Mac version and open the .dmg file. Drag Desktop Duck into your Applications folder as usual.
02
Right-click to open (first launch only)
Instead of double-clicking the app, right-click (or Control-click) the Desktop Duck icon in Applications and choose Open from the menu.
03
Click "Open" on the dialog
A dialog will ask if you're sure you want to open an app from an unidentified developer. Click Open. macOS remembers this choice — you'll never see it again for Desktop Duck.
💡 Alternative method: If the right-click trick doesn't work, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll down. You'll see a message about Desktop Duck being blocked — click Open Anyway there instead.