HomeSprite
A downloadable tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Your desktop, but with a little magic.
HomeSprite is a companion app that brings animated Sprites from TrinketOS to your Windows, macOS, or Linux desktop. They live in your tray, wander around in their little frame, and can be any character that the community creates.
✨ Features:
- Runs quietly in the tray — your sprite is always just a click away.
- Import custom .sprite packs (built with Sprite Matrix), or create your own in minutes.
- Comes with a small starter set, plus community-made sprites you can download.
- Cross-platform — the same sprites work in HomeSprite on desktop and inside TrinketOS on Android (starting from v2.1).
- Lightweight, retro-inspired style — feels like it belongs on a Win95 desktop, but works on modern systems.
🎨 Make your own:
- Head over to Sprite Matrix, drop in your frames, name your creation, and export a .sprite file.
- Share it with friends, or submit it to the community gallery.
- Watch it come alive in your HomeSprite tray.
HomeSprite is the first step in bringing TrinketOS beyond handhelds and into desktop systems.
It’s a toy, a creative tool, and maybe the start of something bigger.
Download it, summon a sprite, and let your Windows feel a little more alive.
Readme on github on how to install & use.
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Development log
- Replaced AppImage with tar.gzSep 03, 2025
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Love these silly guys!
Will this stay a creative tool/toy forever, or will it also pivot in a 'functional' direction, like some desktop pets (I've seen pomodoro timers and water break timers before)? Also, will you eventually allow for more mobility of pets, like them moving around the screen and at adjustable times, and maybe a cursor-following setting (Neko)?
Hello, thank you for your questions.
- There is already a bedtime reminder functionality
- Check out github, you can already write any scripts in your favorite language and call sprite actions via shell (for now, talk and sleep)
- For future releases, I plan to integrate scripting inside the app, add reminder/timer functionality, and more.
- I'm not planning movement features right now, because it requires more animations, and because they do not move themselves in TrinketOS. This may change as a function of community growth.
Thanks for the clarification. One more question for now - care to tell something about this planned scripting in the app? A seperate language, or nifty text editor that just modifies the app's code directly?
The vision is in the stage of forming at the moment, so I'd love to hear your input: what would you prefer to use? What kind of scripts/scenarios do you need?
Well, more 'wants' than 'needs', but with scenarios, perhaps you can make a small, popup text panel for editing code if you add scripts. I'm not sure about the actual coding language.
But, I do have an idea. Now, I doubt this would work (I've only heard these questions asked with apps coded in Swift, there isn't much general documentation), but if you wanted some good functional and cosmetic extensibility, see if integrating AppleScript and Windows/Linux's counterparts of that could be possible (you could just integrate the scripts via the right-click context menu or when a specific animation plays).
Would you be able to add touch-based events? For example, play a sound effect or display an animation.
There are already click events, they are configurable from the menu.
Thank you for the input. Yes, integrating shell scripts is technically possible.
There are apparently no private messages on itch, so could you give me some contact so I could invite you to our discord? You'll then be able to participate in discussions of such things.