Price terms as published
Each line is the vendor’s own wording, split from the price capture checked on 2026-09-28. Nothing here is rounded, converted or re-worded — the full sentences stay in the review below. Lines that carry only a price continue the plan named on the line above, in the vendor’s own order.
| # | Plan / term | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free gallery and open-source pets | 2026-09-28 |
| 2 | desktop download offered (checked 2026-09-28) | 2026-09-28 |
One-liner: Petdex is a public gallery of open-source animated desktop pets that react while you work with coding agents — browse, preview, and install them through the Petdex desktop app.
Verified facts (checked 2026-09-28, official site)
| Attribute | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog size shown | 4,869+ pets | petdex.dev (official), checked 2026-09-28 |
| Agents supported | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode, Qoder, Kimi Code, CodeBuddy, OMP | petdex.dev (official), checked 2026-09-28 |
| Content model | Community submissions, each pet page credits its author | petdex.dev (official), checked 2026-09-28 |
| Discovery | Filter by type, version, color, era; franchise collections (Pokemon, League of Legends, JoJo, etc.) | petdex.dev (official), checked 2026-09-28 |
| Community | Discord server linked; submit-your-own flow | petdex.dev (official), checked 2026-09-28 |
| Pricing | Gallery free; pets open source; no paid plans shown on the homepage | petdex.dev (official), checked 2026-09-28 |
Examples on the front page
Boba (an otter with bubble tea, the most downloaded entry at time of capture), a Doraemon-inspired Codex pet, capybara and Pikachu-style companions, and Noir Webling, a detective spider.
Who it is for
People who already use a terminal coding agent daily and want a desktop mascot tied to it; also a reference for how fast community IP (fan-made Pokemon and anime pets) clusters around new developer tools.
Caveats
- Franchise collections are explicitly labeled community fan creations; licensing for fan-IP pets sits with individual submitters.
- The homepage does not state the desktop app’s system requirements or update model.
This page is compiled from official-site information only and is not a hands-on test.
What the official site showed on 2026-10-16
The front page states 5,085+ open-source pets and a gallery count of 5,085 pets — up from
the 4,869+ recorded on this page’s 2026-09-28 check, so the catalogue is still growing. The
install line is a one-liner: npx petdex install boba, next to a Get Petdex Desktop button,
with Download, Docs, Submit, Collections, Creators and Requests in the top
navigation, and Discord, GitHub and a sign-in link in the community block.
Filter dimensions the site actually exposes
| Filter | Values shown (with counts) |
|---|---|
| Type | character 2,578 · creature 1,972 · object 535 |
| Version | v1 4,685 · v2 400 |
| Mood tags | wholesome 2,324 · playful 2,102 · cheerful 1,576 · calm 1,515 · focused 1,314 · mystical 1,267 · mischievous 1,017 · cozy 976 (+4 more) |
| Era | Class of May 2026 2,742 · July 2026 964 · June 2026 528 · August 2026 394 · October 2026 214 · September 2026 199 |
| Colour | orange 1,605 · red 901 · blue 609 · brown 583 · yellow 353 · pink 250 · purple 229 · teal 116 (+4 more) |
Two things follow from those numbers. First, the overwhelming majority of the catalogue is v1 pets (4,685 of 5,085), so a v2-era pet is the exception and may not match every feature a v1 pet has. Second, the “era” distribution is heavily skewed to the Class of May 2026 — over half the gallery — which means sorting by age or by “most installed” surfaces a very different set than browsing newest-first.
What a single pet entry contains
Featured example on the front page: Boba, an otter sipping bubble tea, tagged v1, showing
11.6K downloads, credited to creator railly with 21 favorites. Others in the same list show
4.7K and 4.5K downloads, each with a creator credit, a version tag and a download counter. That
structure is consistent everywhere on the site: every pet page credits its author, and the
catalogue is filtered and sorted by the metadata above rather than by any quality score — there is
no rating system, so “popular” here means “downloaded”, not “reviewed”.
Collections and caveats worth stating plainly
Featured collections include Pokemon (6 pets, 5 community fan submissions), League of Legends (6 pets, 15 fan submissions) and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (6 pets, 10 fan submissions) — all labelled by the site itself as community fan submissions made by Petdex creators. They are unofficial fan works, which matters if you care about franchise rights.
Two more caveats for readers: catalogue entries are community submissions, so descriptions arrive in mixed languages (several front-page entries are written in Chinese, with creator handles to match), and download counts are self-reported by the gallery rather than independently verified. The gallery itself is free — the site shows no paid tier — while individual pets are open-source projects whose licences you should check on each pet’s own page before redistributing.