
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.
QuakPit is a macOS menu bar app that provides meeting reminders by displaying an animated animal-piloted plane with a banner showing the meeting name and time remaining. It is free to download, open source, and integrates with your calendar for enhanced productivity.
Overall, commenters are enthusiastic about the app's fun and creative approach to meeting reminders.
<p>Hey Product Hunt! 👋<br><br>Quakpit started as a side experiment, I wanted to build my first macOS app and see if I could actually ship something.<br><br>So I built a tiny app that sends a duck-piloted plane flying across your screen when a meeting is about to start, with a banner showing how many minutes you have left. I posted one tweet about it with zero expectations.<br><br>It blew up.<br><br>Hundreds of people asked for the same thing: more animals, custom banners, sounds, calendar integrations. Turns out nobody actually likes boring notification popups.<br><br>So I built it properly. Here's what Quakpit does today:<br>🦆 Connects to your calendar and triggers a flying animation before your meetings<br>✈️ A plane crosses your screen with a banner showing your meeting name + time left<br>🦕 Choose your pilot — duck, dinosaur, pigeon, capybara, or dog<br>🆓 Completely free and open source<br>⭐ One-time $4.99 premium for custom banners, sounds, animals and more<br><br>It's built with love. And the open source part is real, the full free experience is on GitHub.<br><br>Would love to hear which animal you'd pick as your co-pilot 👇</p>
<p>It looks cute! Will the notification be seen to others if I'd sharing the screen during the video call? </p>
<p>Okay this is legit awesome. Going to try to download and install now! <br><br>Will provide feedback if I have any :).</p>
<p>this is the first calendar tool i've seen in years where the feature set made me actually laugh. open source too. what made you pick the plane mechanic specifically over something like a walking animation or a popup</p>