A little pixel buddy that lives in the corner of your screen and pops out of a speech bubble to nudge you - before your next meeting, or on any timer you set. Accept or snooze, and off they walk.
Free · macOS & Windows · No account needed · see it move ↓
Set it up once. Then forget it - the buddy shows up on its own.
Paste any iCal / .ics link, or sign in to Google or Apple iCloud - read-only, on your machine. Or skip it and just set an interval.
Pick your character, write the message, choose a sound. Or leave Buddy exactly as they are.
Right on time, your buddy walks in, holds up the reminder, and waits. Accept, or snooze for later.
A grey toast is easy to miss. A whole character walking across your screen is not.
A grey toast slides in behind your fullscreen call, sits for three seconds, and vanishes. By the time you glance over, it's already gone - and so is the meeting.
Your buddy walks across the screen, holds up a reminder, and stays put until you accept or snooze. Impossible to scroll past. Impossible to miss.
Choose a character, write the nudge, toggle the sound - then hit preview and watch them walk in. Pro options are marked; try them all here.
Floats above every app, then walks off. It never blocks a click - your menu bar is the only footprint.
Meetings from Google, iCloud, or any .ics link. Plus your own timers for water, breaks, and standups.
Your character, your words, your sound. Bring your own pixel art - the background gets removed right on your device.
No pop-up spam, no dock bounce. Just the occasional buddy, right when it matters.
Pay once for Pro. No subscription, ever.
Nudzie has no backend and no database. Your calendar is read directly on your device, kept only in memory, and never written to disk or sent anywhere. No telemetry, no analytics. The only thing it can store is your encrypted sign-in token - and only if you ask it to.
Google Calendar, Apple iCloud (via CalDAV), and any public iCal / .ics link. It's read-only - Nudzie never edits or deletes your events.
Yes. The buddy floats above everything, including fullscreen video calls, and never blocks your clicks - it stays out of the way until it's time to nudge.
Free gives you the Buddy character, one calendar or interval, and your own message and sound. Pro is a one-time $6.99 and unlocks more characters and sounds, custom themes, bring-your-own pixel art, and combining unlimited calendars.
Everything runs on your device. No servers, no telemetry. Calendar data stays in memory; only an encrypted sign-in token can be saved, and only with your permission.
macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) and Windows (x64 & ARM). Same buddy, same features, on whichever desktop you use. Linux can follow.
Quit from the menu bar and drag the app to the Trash. Nothing is left behind on a server - because there is no server.
