💧 Sip Water Buddy
A hero and a pet that remind you to drink water, and anything else you tell them to.
Sip is a small desktop companion. A 3D hero (and a pet) walk onto your screen when a reminder is due, do a bit of
showing off, and stay until you answer. Water is built in; add any other reminder you like, with dates and times.
It is free, open source, and never connects to the internet.
Website: https://vicky-co.github.io/sip-water-buddy/
| Characters | Reminders | On your desktop |
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Features
- Water reminder with your own interval and daily goal. Turn it off if you only want other reminders.
- Any reminder you like: one-time (date and time), every day, certain days of the week, or every N minutes/hours.
Quick-add chips (In 10 min, In 1 hour, Tomorrow 9:00) make the common case a two-second job.
Answer with Done, +10 min, +1 hour or Skip; pause, edit, test or delete from Settings.
- A hero and a pet: name them, choose who shows up (both, hero only or pet only; they are never both hidden),
and pick their looks. Bring your own 3D avatar or pet (
.glb), and your own pet sounds.
- Plays along: fetch (click anywhere on any screen), pet tricks, dance moves, sounds and music, all generated or bundled.
- A real Settings window (Characters, Reminders, Sounds, General), light and dark themes, keyboard accessible.
- Multi-monitor: the characters walk across all your screens.
- Message with them: the question appears the moment they land and follows them while they walk, so you can answer at once.
Hover the mouse over them and they stop; move it away and they carry on.
- You decide how long they linger after you answer (right away, quick, normal, or 1-60 seconds in Settings → General), and the
goodbye message has a ⏩ Go now button to send them off immediately.
- Wait where you want: tap 📍 Wait here in their message and click anywhere on any screen; they walk there and wait.
📌 Always wait here (or Settings → General) makes them use that spot every time instead of a random place; 🚶 Roam again undoes it.
- To-do list (switch it on or off in Settings → General): add items in the To-dos tab, tick them off, clear the finished ones.
The tray menu has Show todos (with how many are open) and Quick add todo…, a tiny window to jot one down without opening Settings.
- Deadlines and reminders for to-dos: give a to-do an optional deadline (a date, and a time if you like). The hero and pet remind you before it, with a global
"remind me N minutes before" setting that each to-do can override (or switch off). Overdue to-dos are marked in red in the list and in the tray menu.
- Your to-dos on the desktop: tray → Show todos makes the hero and pet appear, standing still, holding your list. Tick items off right there, and drag them anywhere;
Sip remembers where you left them.
- Today: a tab listing every check-in the characters made today (water, reminders, to-dos) and how you answered (done, skipped, not yet). Tapped the wrong button?
Change the answer; Sip asks you to confirm first and keeps your glass count and skip totals in step.
- Only ask during certain hours (Settings → Reminders → Water): choose a start and an end. Outside them Sip stays quiet, after the end the next ask is reset to the start,
and changing the hours later (a longer window, an earlier start) takes effect straight away. Windows that run past midnight work too.
- Last 30 days at a glance (Settings → Stats): glasses per day against your goal, how far above or below the goal each day was,
and how many check-ins and how many minutes you skipped, with a table of the exact numbers. History starts the day you update; it stays on your computer.
- Uninstall from inside the app: Settings → General → Uninstall Sip completely… (or the tray menu). It lists exactly what it will delete and asks first.
- Private and safe by design: no network, no telemetry, strict sandboxing (see SECURITY.md).
Download and install
Grab the latest build from the Releases page.
Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- Download
Sip-Water-Buddy-Setup-<version>.exe from the release.
- Double-click it. If Windows says it "protected your PC", choose More info → Run anyway (the app is not code-signed yet).
- Sip installs for your user only (no administrator rights), adds Start menu and desktop shortcuts, and starts. Look for the water-drop icon near the clock
(click the
^ arrow if hidden) and double-click it to open Settings.
It keeps running when you close any terminal, and starts when you sign in (switchable in Settings). Uninstall from Settings → Apps → Sip Water Buddy;
your reminders and settings stay in %APPDATA%\sip-water-buddy (delete that folder to remove them too).
Prefer no installer? Download Sip-Water-Buddy-<version>-portable.exe: a single file you can run from anywhere (it starts a little slower).
This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗
