Mochi
A cute Mac desktop pet that organizes your loose files
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Mochi - A cute Mac desktop pet that organizes your loose files

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Mochi is a little pink blob who lives on your Mac. It floats around, naps, teases you about late nights and carries loose Desktop files into folders (never deletes, undo any move). Pro adds a tiny life sim: a strawberry tree, a nest and a family to raise.

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Hi Product Hunt! I made Mochi because my Desktop was a screenshot graveyard and I wanted some company while I worked. Mochi is a small pink blob that floats over your screen, reacts to the apps you use, naps now and then and has opinions about your late nights. If you say yes on the welcome card, it also carries loose files into folders. It never deletes or overwrites anything, and you can undo any move from the menu bar. Then it got out of hand: Mochi Pro became a tiny life sim with a strawberry tree, a nest, eggs and babies in new colours. Food is scarce, so how your family turns out is up to you. 🍓 Pro has a free 30-minute trial, then it's $5, pay what you want. Heads-up: Mochi isn't notarized yet, so first launch needs System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Just once. Privacy: no account, no tracking. Mochi only goes online to check for updates once a day, to verify a Pro license with Gumroad, and, if you add your own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini key, to send app-activity context (app names, time, files it's tidying) to that provider. I'd love your feedback: what should Mochi react to next, and what surprised you?
Cute ☺️clever way to make file organization less tedious. Does Mochi learn filing patterns over time?
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 I am already working on the next version that learns filing patterns over time.. it's ready and I will deploy it later on today.

Compared to screenshot/file-organizing tools like Tidyshot (screenshot-focused renaming/sorting) or desktop-cleanup utilities like Desktop Broom (rules/smart mode), what’s the clearest workflow where Mochi wins—what can Mochi do *because* it’s an always-present companion that those utilities can’t?
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 The difference is that Mochi tidies in front of you, not behind you. It physically flies across the desktop to each file and moves it while you watch. Batch utilities hand you a result and ask you to trust it; with Mochi you see the file get picked up, and undo is one click in the menu bar. So: not "Mochi sorts better." Mochi sorts often, because you never have to go and get it.

the file-organizing part I get, but the pro tier is a family to raise and a nest to maintain, that's a life-sim loop layered on top of a utility. is there any guilt-trip mechanic if you don't check in for a few days (a sad pet, a neglected nest), or is it purely cosmetic with zero consequence for ignoring it? that distinction matters a lot for whether this stays a fun desktop toy or turns into one more app quietly asking for daily attention.

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 if you neglect them the family will starve and start to eat each until there is only one left again. When they start to eat each other they will mutate and have coloured pimples.

Maker

 o the second half of your question though — it never comes after you for it. No notifications, no badges, nothing that reaches you when it's not on screen. When it's down to the last one it just hibernates, sleeps with little z's, and waits until you nudge it. And the original Mochi can't die, so there's no save-file you can permanently ruin.

You can also hide the nest and garden from the menu bar and keep the tidying — then it's just a pet that floats around and comments, with nothing to maintain at all.

 no guilt mechanic and a hard "can't die" floor is exactly the right call for something that lives on your desktop all day. a pet that can actually punish you for being busy would get uninstalled within a week. good answer.