It peeks.
Rests beneath your notch with its face showing, blinking and breathing beside your work.
Someone small
lives under
your notch.
Little desktop companions that blink, breathe, and keep you quiet company while you work. Mallow, your first spriglet.
Coming soonmacOS 26+ · Apple silicon
What Mallow does
QUIETCOMPANY.
Mostly, Mallow keeps you company. When you want to play, it’s soft, light, and lands on its feet.
It plays.
Invite it out, pick it up, let it go. It lands softly, or catches the notch on its way home.
It waits.
Long, quiet pauses. Empty space around it clicks straight through to your work.
A field guide to spriglets · Volume I
Mallow is the first.
It won’t be the last.
Spriglets are small, soft creatures that live at the top of your screen. Each has its own shape and habits. We’re starting with Mallow; more spriglets are planned.
Plate I · No. 01Catalogued October 2026, beneath a MacBook notchMeet Mallow
Mallow
Mollis inclinavus (Spriglet, 2026)
Soft, lavender, and a little shy. Rests beneath the notch with only its face showing, blinking and breathing beside your work. Comes out when invited.
- Habitat
- Beneath the notch; upper right on displays without one.
- Range
- Apple silicon Macs, macOS 26+.
- Diet
- Nothing. No account, no network.
- Temperament
- Quiet pauses and small gestures.
Care & keeping
In the current app’s native Settings
- Size
- Small, Medium, or Large.
- Energy
- Gentle, Standard, or Lively.
- Home
- The notch, or the top left, center, or right of any display.
- Hours
- Optional launch at login, if you like.
- Feeding
- Not required.
Quiet by design
Quiet company
keeps quiet.
Spriglets live entirely on your Mac. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing sent anywhere by the app. Mallow rests at its small peek, with occasional brief idle moments when your Mac is plugged in. Click, drag or throw it when you want to play.
Local
No account, app server, analytics, or screen capture.
Gentle
Respects Reduce Motion, Low Power Mode, and display sleep.
Out of the way
Clicks pass through empty space. Hide or pause in Settings.
Website hosting is covered separately in the policy.
Spriglet · Privacy receipt
The app on your Mac
- account
- none
- analytics
- none
- app server connections
- none
- screen contents read
- none
- saved on your Mac
- settings
TOTAL COLLECTED0
thank you for visiting ♡
Bring it home.
A little companion for your Apple silicon Mac, running macOS 26 or later.
Will be released soon.
macOS 26+ · Apple silicon