Pomi press kit
Pomi is a small pond creature that lives in the Windows taskbar. It peeks at your cursor, splashes when you throw it, rides your windows and fishes while you focus. Everything here is free to use when writing about Pomi.
Facts
- Platform
- Windows 10 and 11
- Price
- $4.99 once ($3.99 launch week). Free demo on Steam. Optional $2.99 Supporter Pack. No subscriptions, ads or loot boxes.
- Status
- In testing. Coming to Steam and the Microsoft Store.
- Website
- pomi.pet
- Privacy
- No account, no analytics and no network use in the app. Settings and stats stay on the PC.
Descriptions
One line. A pond creature that lives in your Windows taskbar and fishes while you focus.
Short. Pomi is a tiny saffron pond creature that lives in your Windows taskbar. Throw it and it splashes back into the water. Drop it on a window and it rides along. Start a focus session and it sinks to eyes-only and fishes, filling a pond log with everything it catches. Every pomi hatches from a six-character code, so no two look alike, and friends can trade codes to visit each other's taskbars.
Longer. Pomi is a desktop pet that actually lives on your desktop. It stands in the taskbar as if it were a pond, follows your cursor with its eyes, squishes when you poke it and tumbles when you throw it. It climbs onto title bars and holds on while you drag the window.
It's also a gentle focus companion. Sessions can be timed or open-ended, with soundscapes made by the app as it plays, reminders it acts out (a sip of water, a look into the distance, a stretch) and a short list of three things for the day. While you focus, Pomi fishes; every ten undistracted minutes something bites. It never guilt-trips you: wander off and it wonders where you went.
Everything Pomi looks like is drawn in code from one procedural rig, which is how every install hatches a different pomi and how the website draws the same creature live.
Features
- Lives in the taskbar: physics, splashes, eyes-only mode, rides windows.
- Focus sessions: 25, 50 or 90 minutes, custom, or open-ended flow.
- Fishing: twenty things to catch, from a lost sock to a lost cursor.
- Soundscapes: rain, pond, night crickets, brown noise, generated in the app.
- Reminders it acts out instead of notifications.
- Pomi Cam: looping GIFs of your own pomi to share.
- Visitors: friends' pomis come to your taskbar by hatch code.
- A wardrobe of hats, coats and pond themes, bought with coins earned by focusing.
- Weekly pond report, stats and streaks.
Logo
Saffron #F9B233, ink #2A2340, pond #103B3F.
Screenshots and GIFs
Pomi draws itself, so the best screenshots are your own. In the app, open My pomi and use Pomi Cam to save a looping GIF, or Copy card for a still. On the website, the hatchery saves a card for any pomi.