catai-linux 0.8.0

Virtual desktop pet cats for Linux — pixel art cats that roam your screen and chat via AI

CATAI-Linux

Virtual desktop pet cats for Linux -- pixel art cats that roam your screen and chat with you via AI (Claude or Ollama).

Install

# System dependencies (GTK4 + Cairo, not available via pip)
# Fedora:
sudo dnf install python3-gobject
# Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-4.0

pip install catai-linux

# Optional: adds ~100 MB of deps (faster-whisper) for voice chat
pip install catai-linux[voice]

Run

catai

Features

• Animated pixel-art cats roaming freely across your screen
• 6 cat personalities with AI chat (Claude API or Ollama)
• Voice chat 🎤 (optional) — hold Space or the mic button to talk to your cats. 100% local transcription via faster-whisper, GPU-accelerated if you have CUDA
• Cat encounters: when two cats cross paths, they stop and have a short AI-generated conversation
• Love encounters & kittens: occasional love → kitten births with fade-in + sparkles
• 22 easter eggs with magic phrases (nyan, matrix, thanos, don't panic...)
• Click-through: cats float above windows, clicks pass through
• Drag & drop, random meows, settings UI
• Multilingual (FR/EN/ES), autostart at login
• Lazy loading + disk cache for instant startup

Full documentation on GitHub.