MeowTop

A lazy Maine Coon that lives on your Windows desktop.

MeowTop is a tiny desktop companion: a semi-transparent cat that sits on top of your windows, watches your cursor, stretches, dozes off and purrs — then gets out of your way. She is lazy by nature. She keeps her distance, gets up reluctantly, and falls asleep when nothing is happening. She never steals your clicks: the window is fully click-through everywhere except the cat herself.

Features

• Transparent, borderless, always-on-top overlay across your primary monitor
• Click-through everywhere except the cat, so it never blocks your work
• Follows the global cursor and keeps a comfortable personal-space distance
• Full behaviour set: seamless walking, resting, stretching, drowsing, sleeping, paw-reach and purring
• Pick her up and carry her by holding the left mouse button; she goes soft while carried
• Focus mode puts her to sleep in place so she won't distract you
• Tray icon with hide/show and quit; starts automatically with Windows
• Welcome card and installer in English, Russian and Simplified Chinese
• Very light on resources: about 0.7% idle CPU and ~39 MB RAM

Controls

Global hotkeys:

• Ctrl + Alt + H — hide / show
• Ctrl + Alt + Q — quit
• Ctrl + Alt + S — focus mode (she sleeps in place until you toggle it off)

With the mouse, on the cat:

• Right-click and hold — she tilts her head to listen
• Double-click — she purrs
• Hold the left mouse button — pick her up and carry her; release to put her down

The tray icon (left- or right-click) also has Hide / show and Quit.

Install

1. Download the latest MeowTop_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe from the Releases page.
2. Run it. The build is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show an "unknown publisher" warning — click More info → Run anyway.
3. Choose the installer language and finish. MeowTop launches right away and can start automatically when you sign in.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
• Microsoft WebView2 runtime — preinstalled on Windows 11; on Windows 10 the installer downloads it automatically if it is missing

Uninstall

Open Settings → Apps → Installed apps → MeowTop → Uninstall (this also removes the start-with-Windows entry), or run the uninstaller created by the installer.

Build from source

Prerequisites: Node.js, the Rust toolchain, and the Tauri v2 prerequisites for Windows (Microsoft C++ Build Tools and the WebView2 runtime).

npm install
npm run tauri dev      # run in development
npm run tauri build    # build the release and the NSIS installer

The installer is written to src-tauri/target/release/bundle/nsis/.

Support

MeowTop is free. If it made you smile, you can leave a tip on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/lokot667 (optional — no pressure, enjoy the cat).

License

PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. You are free to use, modify and share MeowTop for any noncommercial purpose. Commercial use — including selling the app or its assets, or bundling them into a paid product — is not permitted. See LICENSE.

Made by Alexandr Laktionov.