it keeps what matters
facts, feelings, plans, people and the way you like things done. tell it "next thursday" and it still knows what you meant in august.
pip 0.8.0 · windows
pip lives in the corner of your windows desktop, remembers what matters to you, and grows a personality shaped by how you actually are with it. warmer or cooler. chattier or quieter. curious or heads-down. you don't pick who it becomes. you're just the person it grows around.
drag it. thirty days of drift, sped up. in real life it moves a hair a day, so the pip you have in a month is one you'd never have picked.
and that was the only thing it said. pip is quiet by default. it speaks when there's a reason to.
we can't show you someone else's pip. it wouldn't tell you a thing about yours. so everything below is something you can pick up and try right here on this page.
how it drifts
every other companion hands you a persona list. pip's is earned. five traits pull between two poles, and nothing but your own behaviour moves them. there's no slider that sets them where you'd like them to be.
day 1 · 0 signals in
each button is one day with pip. drag out a week and watch it lean.
a blank-slate creature. balanced, waiting to see who you are.
it reads the small things. how long your messages run. whether there's laughter in them. what hour you're up at. whether you sound stressed or locked in. whether you left its last check-in sitting there. kindness and sharpness both register.
and it moves slowly, on purpose. a day of being one way barely shifts it. a fortnight of being one way changes how it talks to you. that's the point: nothing about your pip is a setting you flipped, so nothing about it can be handed to anyone else. you can't choose it. you can only be yourself at it.
nothing dies here, nothing scolds you, and nothing is taken away when you skip a day. it just grows in the direction you actually are.
the same sentence, answered by two pips who grew up differently.
memory
that one moment is what makes a companion feel like one. your projects, your people, your plans, the thing you were dreading. it keeps what mattered and lets the rest go.
facts, feelings, plans, people and the way you like things done. tell it "next thursday" and it still knows what you meant in august.
a bad afternoon fades in a few days. your sister's name doesn't. feelings soften, facts stay, and the things you asked it to hold onto are never the ones it drops.
say "remember this" and it's kept. open the library any time to read everything it holds, edit it, mark something private, or wipe the lot in one click.
day thirty
a month in, pip works out what it's turned into and hands you a card with its name, its archetype, and where each of its five traits ended up. it happens once. it's the only moment pip ever asks to be shared, and it arrives on time whatever else has changed.
we're not going to invent one of these for you. this is the shape of it. the words are yours.
six archetypes: the quiet one, the cheerleader, the deadpan, the focused partner, the wonderer, the steady friend. plenty of people will share yours. where your five traits landed, nobody will.
thirty days is thirty days. it starts the moment you name it.
living with it
small, frameless, see-through, sitting above your other windows and out of your taskbar. it wakes up when your computer does, and it doesn't take up a slot in your alt-tab.
pip can wander your desktop, wander over to whatever app you're in, hop to your cursor, and settle in beside you during focus. all of it starts switched off. you turn on what you like.
when you've been away a while, when a focus block has run long, when it's far too late to still be up. it's allowed to say nothing at all, and often does. no notifications, no phone app, nothing that can reach you off your own screen.
one master toggle, and finer ones for speaking, idle thoughts, reminders and check-ins. set it to rare, sometimes or often. silence it until tomorrow. freeze it in place. or make it purely reactive and it will never start a thing.
what's inside
tap pip's antenna and its mind opens up. these aren't settings menus. they're rooms, and each one holds something pip keeps for itself, and lets you read.
how pip is feeling right now, and the shape its personality has been settling into.
at the end of a day pip writes that day down, in its own words. it isn't writing it for you. you're just allowed to read it.
overnight, everything pip knows about you drifts together. some mornings it has made a connection you wouldn't have.
everything pip has chosen to keep, written plainly. you can read it, correct it, or wipe any of it, whenever you want.
the quiet theories pip forms about you over time, each with how sure it actually is. it will show you the ones it's still unsure of.
what you two have been up to. the things you asked it to hold on to, and how your weeks have actually been going.
its body, its colours, how it moves, how often it speaks. every dial pip has, in one room.
pip stands on the bar, walks along it, and naps there. drop it somewhere high and it hangs where you left it, swinging a little, until you come back for it.
cats, foxes, pandas, ducks, ghosts, small robots, pixel creatures. change its body whenever you like. the memories, the name and the personality all come with it.
start a focus session and pip settles in beside you and works when you work. it's the oldest trick there is for starting something, and it's the feature people keep.
swap a code with a friend and your two desktops can pass small notes. their creature turns up on your screen to deliver it, then wanders off again.
your side of it
no account to make. no dashboard anyone else can see. no profile of you being built somewhere.
that's the whole trade, and we'd rather you heard it from us than found it out later.
your free day
so you know exactly what you're getting: the free day is for meeting the creature and looking around its world. real conversation starts with a plan.
say something to it. this box answers from a short script, not from pip's real mind, and it will tell you so if you ask.
the free day works the same way. the creature is fully alive from minute one, but the talking is a stand-in until you pick a plan. we would rather say that here than let you find it out on day two.
price
pro is five dollars a month: no seats, credits, or tokens to top up. it has one ceiling, 100 chats a day; the rest of pip is not metered. max is shown below with its planned price, but it is not for sale until its features are ready.
available now
the whole companion, switched on.
cancel any time, in two clicks.
yearly ($39, a third off) opens later. start monthly and switch over when it does.
the one number worth knowing: 100 chats a day. it's there so a single person can't run up the bill for everybody, and it sits well above a normal day of talking. nothing else is metered. the rooms, the memories, the moods, the journal, its whole inner life carry on regardless, and they keep running on the days you don't say anything at all.
coming next
for anyone who wants the whole world of it.
not purchasable yet. it's built and sitting in the app waiting to be switched on, but there's no checkout behind it, so we're not going to put a button there. buy pro today and you'll be the first to hear when it lands.
there's no countdown on this page, and when yearly opens the monthly price won't be inflated to make the discount look bigger.
dodo payments takes the payment, handles the tax wherever you are, and emails you a licence key. you paste it in once, and it isn't kept on your disk afterwards. plans are changed or cancelled from their customer portal, linked inside the app.
after you pay
before you ask
because pip thinks. every reply, every dream, every thing it works out about you costs real money to run, every month, for as long as you keep it. a one-time price would mean switching pip's mind off a year later, and we'd rather charge honestly than do that. the companions you can buy once are real, and cheaper — they ask you to bring your own api key, or to install and run a model on your machine, and then the thinking is on you. pip asks for none of that: nothing to sign into, no key to paste, no server to keep running. it also means pip can keep growing: what you're paying for gets better while you own it.
chatgpt is a place you go to. pip is already there, and it knows you. it remembers your week, notices when you've been up too late, sits with you while you work, and has an inner life running quietly whether or not you're talking to it. and it has no reason to keep you on it longer, because the price is the same whether you send two messages today or ninety. it isn't a smarter assistant. it's a small resident.
no. your conversations aren't stored on our side, aren't sold, aren't mined, and aren't training anything. your pip lives in encrypted files on your own machine, and one button wipes them.
one: 100 chats a day. it exists so a single person can't run up the bill for everybody, and it's set well above a normal day of talking, so you would have to be trying to reach it. nothing else in pip is metered.
windows today. the mac version is written and building, and we're not putting a download button on it until we've run it on real hardware and signed it properly. we'll change this answer the day that's true.
nothing is deleted. your pip stays on your desk with its name, its personality and everything it remembers. conversation pauses, the premium looks step back to the free ones, and your day-thirty card still arrives. pick the plan up again whenever and it carries on where you left off.
that's a fair thing to ask of a small product. the answer we can actually give you is that your pip isn't hostage to us: it's plain files on your drive, and export hands you all of it in a readable form whenever you ask. you're not renting your own memories.
one creature. one day free to look around. windows.
get pip from the microsoft storev0.8.0 · windows · a zip, unzip it and run the installer inside · a free day, then $5 a month
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check it before you run it, if you like: certutil -hashfile Pip-Setup-0.8.0.zip SHA256 in a terminal should print exactly that. every release is also listed in SHA256SUMS.txt.
windows will throw up this warning. it's fine, and here's why.
a certificate that stops windows saying this costs a few hundred dollars a year. pip is one person and a small purple blob, and right now that money is better spent on pip than on a badge. click more info, then run anyway, and you're in.
the download is a zip for the same reason: browsers are wary of an installer nobody has downloaded yet. unzip it, and the installer is inside.
it's on the list for when pip can afford it.