A free desktop companion for macOS
Clawd wanders along the bottom of your screen, settles into your menu bar, and quietly gets useful: focus timers, folder tidying, file drops, a GitHub dashboard, and a tap on the shoulder when Claude Code is done.
✻ That little guy at the bottom of this page is really Clawd. Click him. Drag him. Throw him.
What he does
Menu bar
Grab Clawd, drop him on the menu bar, and he shrinks into a little icon that blinks, walks in place and pops up short phrases. Alerts appear as a small bubble under his icon, so he stays put. Drag him back out to carry him down to your desktop, or click him for his menu. He's notch-aware too: if macOS has no room for his icon, he notices and hops back out instead of vanishing.
Focus timer
Start a focus session or a break and Clawd becomes a tiny alarm clock: a pixel LCD, a draining progress bar and a little bell on top. The same face sits in your menu bar with the countdown next to it. When time's up, a little bubble appears under his icon.
Drop files on him
Drag any file over Clawd and a row of targets pops up. Hold it on a shelf, convert images to PNG or JPG, shrink them, zip things up, copy a path, or send it to the Trash. The shelf never moves your files; drag them back out wherever you like.
Folder tidier
Drop Clawd on a Finder window and click Organise. He tosses every file into the right bin as the counts climb. Screenshots, images, documents, installers, code, archives: sorted in seconds.
Links
Drag a YouTube or Spotify track link onto him and choose MP3 or MP4. Files land in your Downloads and he reveals them in Finder. It runs on the open-source yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which you install once with Homebrew.
Only download things you have the right to keep.
Claude Code
Clawd watches for a busy claude process and tells you the moment a run finishes. One click installs a hook so he waves and bounces whenever Claude Code needs your permission or input, even while he's tucked away in the menu bar.
# the hook he installs (with a backup of your settings)
Clawd --needs-youDev tools
A dashboard hangs off Clawd with your recent repos, CI status dots, open PRs and the reviews waiting for you. It uses the gh CLI, so there's no token to paste. He'll tell you when CI fails. There's also a Git buddy that nags (nicely) about uncommitted work, and a port watcher that tells you when your dev server goes down.
Weather and day & night
Tell him your city and he wears an umbrella in the rain, shades when it's hot, a scarf when it's cold and snow on his head when it flurries. After 9pm he puts on a nightcap under twinkling stars, and he'll nudge you at bedtime.
Play
Four little games, a physics ball you can throw across your screen, and a handful of rare weird moods when you're not looking.
Move your mouse, catch coins and gems, dodge the bugs. 30 seconds.
Click or press space to flap through the pipes.
He rolls into a ball and a hoop appears. Farther shots score more.
Grab him and throw him. He bounces off your screen edges and windows.
Weird moods
He builds a tiny fort on top of one of your windows. He hides off the edge of the screen and peeks back at you. He sneezes. He turns into a ghost. All with soft 8-bit blips, and every sound can be muted.
Little tools
Drag a box around anything and the text lands on your clipboard. On-device OCR.
An eyedropper for anywhere on screen. Copies the hex code.
A calculator that also converts units and currency, and tells the time in Tokyo.
Copies a strong one, keeps it out of clipboard history, and clears it after 45 seconds.
Jot something down from anywhere. Click a note later to copy it.
Repos, CI and review requests, one keystroke away.
Try him right here
He's the one at the bottom of the page. Use these to boss him around, or just grab him.
Tip: in ball mode, grab him and fling him. He'll bounce off the screen edges and the cards on this page.
Get Clawd
Latest release · macOS 14 or later
Clawd.app to Applications.After that he updates himself: click Update in his menu when a new version is out.
No macOS security prompt. Because you build it on your own Mac, Gatekeeper never flags it, so there's no right-click → Open step. Needs macOS 14+ and the Swift toolchain (Xcode or the Command Line Tools). No packages, no Xcode project.
git clone https://github.com/xandertaylorx/clawd-buddy.git
cd clawd-buddy
./build.sh
open build/Clawd.appOptional extras: brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg gh for link downloads and the GitHub dashboard.
Questions
Everything runs on your Mac. The only network requests are the ones you trigger or turn on: the daily update check (GitHub), a currency rate lookup, weather for the city you set, the gh CLI for the dashboard, and downloads you ask for. The clipboard history lives in memory only and is off by default. The source is all in one repo you can read.
It isn't notarized with a paid Apple Developer ID yet. Right-click the app and choose Open the first time, and macOS remembers. Building from source avoids the warning entirely.
Yes. If macOS runs out of room for his menu bar icon (it silently drops what doesn't fit), Clawd notices, hops back out and tells you to make some space.
Never. He only tidies when you click Organise, only touches loose files at the top level, skips code projects and system folders, never deletes anything, and Undo puts every file back.
No. Clawd is an independent fan project inspired by the little mascot from Claude Code. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. This site borrows a warm, editorial look as a tribute, not a claim.
Everything. The Settings window (right-click him, then Settings…) has a switch for each behaviour (sounds, weird moods, nudges, window climbing, update checks), grouped into tabs, and always shows what's on. There's a Quiet mode too, which also kicks in during Zoom calls.