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QuakPit
For Mac users: Quakpit sends animated animals across your screen before meetings start so you never miss a calendar event again.
Built by Tom
Productivity Meetings Freemium
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QuakPit is a Product Hunt listing on Launch Llama with 236 total upvotes, founded by Tom who joined in Jun 2026, compared against 6 alternatives.
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Key Features
- Connect to calendar sources and automatically launch reminders on schedule
- Customize characters, plane colors, banner themes, and notification messages
- Set advance notification timing of five or ten minutes before meetings
About
Quakpit is a macOS menu bar app that connects to your calendar and sends an animal-piloted plane flying across your screen before your meetings start. A duck, a dinosaur, a pigeon, a capybara, or a dog, your choice, cruises across your display towing a banner with your meeting name and how long you have left. Hard to ignore. Impossible to hate. Free to download & open source. Connect your calendar, pick your animal, never miss a meeting.
Use Cases
- Remote workers who need visual alerts that work during fullscreen video calls
- Privacy-conscious users who want calendar reminders without data collection
- Users managing multiple calendar sources who need unified meeting notifications
Pricing
Free forever with core features. Pro costs $4.99 as a one-time payment for additional characters, colors, themes, and multi-calendar support.
FAQ
Which calendars work?
Add a calendar by iCal/ICS link (the easiest — no login) or connect Apple iCloud. Google and Outlook are on the way. Everything is read-only; the free plan connects one source, Pro combines several at once.
Does it work over fullscreen apps?
Yes. The plane floats above everything — even a fullscreen call or presentation — and it's click-through, so it never gets in your way. Then it flies off.
What's free, and what's Pro?
Free forever: the duck, one calendar, 5/10-minute reminders, your message and all five fonts. Pro ($4.99) adds 4 more characters with their own sounds, 4 plane colours, 4 banner themes, faster fly-bys, several calendars at once, and your own custom plane. The app is open source (MIT) on GitHub.
What about my privacy?
There's no backend. Your calendar is read straight from your device and kept only in memory — never written to disk or sent to us. Your sign-in is stored encrypted (Keychain / Windows DPAPI) only if you ask. No telemetry, no analytics. See the privacy note above.
Which platforms?
macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) is available now — a Windows build (10 & 11) is coming soon. It lives in your menu bar and updates itself. The button above grabs the latest release.
How do I uninstall it?
Like any normal app: just drag it to the Trash on macOS (and once the Windows build lands, uninstall it from Settings). It leaves nothing behind on a server, because there's no server.
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