SpiderPet

There’s a spider on your screen.

Inspired by @tatsuki_mm (Instagram) in their viral reel.

It wanders across your desktop on its own—pausing, twitching, grooming a leg over its face. Then, it notices your cursor. It turns to look. It creeps closer, low and slow… and SNAP! It leaps forward and pins your pointer like a fly.

Move your mouse too fast and you'll spook it: it bolts for the edge of the screen, only to warily creep back a moment later.

This isn't a looping video or a flat sprite sheet—it's fully procedural. The legs actually step, the body crouches before a strike, and it reads your cursor's movement the way a real jumping spider tells prey from a predator: drift slowly and you’re a fly; flick suddenly and you’re a threat.

Because it sits on a transparent, click-through overlay, it never gets in your way. You can work, click, and type right through it while it lives on top of your windows.

Key Features

• Procedural Physics: Wanders, stalks, pounces, flees, hides, and grooms dynamically.
• Interactive Hunting: Tracks your actual mouse cursor and "catches" it.
• Zero Disruption: Click-through overlay lets you work entirely unobstructed.
• Customizable Tray Settings: Adjust size, speed, toggle "start with Windows," or enable "hide cursor when caught."
• Lightweight: Low resource footprint; lives quietly in your system tray.
• Privacy-First: 100% offline. No ads, no accounts, no tracking, and no network access.

How to Run

1. Download & Extract: Unzip the folder anywhere you like.
2. Launch: Open the folder and run SpiderPet.exe.
3. Control: Find it in your system tray (bottom-right). Right-click the icon to access Pause, Settings, or Quit.

📋 Requirements: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). Portable executable—no installation or Python required.

⚠️ Please Read Before Downloading

• Arachnophobia Warning: This is a realistic, dark spider that mimics lifelike movements. If spiders make you uneasy, this desktop toy is not for you!
• SmartScreen Warning ("Windows protected your PC"): Because the app is not yet digitally code-signed, Windows SmartScreen may flag it. Click More info → Run anyway. (The app is completely offline and safe).
• Antivirus False Positives: Rare heuristic scans might flag small, self-contained apps like this. This is a false positive; the zip contains a plain, transparent one-folder build.