Quakpit QuakpitA little duck in a plane flies across your screen — above every app — towing a banner that reminds you of your next meeting. Synced automatically from your calendar.
Free • macOS
First launch: right-click the app → Open (it isn't Apple-signed yet).
Windows version coming soon
Free & open source — see the code on GitHub ↗
▸ three little steps
Set it up once. Then forget it — the duck shows up on its own.
Paste any iCal/ICS link (no login) or sign in to Apple iCloud — read-only, straight from your machine. Google & Outlook are on the way.
Pick your character and plane colour, a banner theme and your message, plus a 5- or 10-minute heads-up.
Right on time, the plane crosses above every app with your message — and your character's little sound. 
▸ why a duck?
A grey toast in the corner for 3 seconds, behind your fullscreen call. Blink and it's gone.
A plane flies across everything, banner flapping, engine humming. Impossible to miss.
▸ make it yours
Choose your character, plane colour, banner theme and message — then launch it and watch it cross the sky. Pro options are marked, but you can try them all here.
Character
Plane colour
Banner
Characters, colours and themes beyond the first are Quakpit Pro — play with them all here. 
▸ the good bits
Floats over all your apps, even fullscreen — then disappears. It never blocks your clicks.
Open it once. It quietly watches your calendar and launches the plane on time, by itself.
Five characters, five plane colours and five banner themes — plus your own message, font and sound.
Lives in your menu bar. No window clutter, no spam — just the occasional duck.
▸ the price tag
$0
The duck flies above your apps before each meeting
Connect a calendar — iCal link or Apple iCloud (one source)
5- or 10-minute heads-up (+ optional ping at start)
Your own message & any of 5 fonts
Engine sound + quack$4.99 once
4 more characters (Corgi, Dino, Pigeon, Capybara) + their sounds 4 more plane colours (Blue, Green, Pink, Black) 4 more banner themes (Midnight, Sunset, Mint, Bubblegum)
Faster fly-bys (1.5× & 2× speed) Combine several calendars at onceOne-time payment · activate in the app · 1 device · yours forever
Quakpit has no backend and no database. Your calendar is read directly on your device, kept only in memory, and never written to disk or sent anywhere. No telemetry, no analytics. The only thing it can store is your encrypted sign-in token — and only if you ask it to.
▸ in case you wondered
Add a calendar by iCal/ICS link (the easiest — no login) or connect Apple iCloud. Google and Outlook are on the way. Everything is read-only; the free plan connects one source, Pro combines several at once.
Yes. The plane floats above everything — even a fullscreen call or presentation — and it's click-through, so it never gets in your way. Then it flies off.
Free forever: the duck, one calendar, 5/10-minute reminders, your message and all five fonts. Pro ($4.99) adds 4 more characters with their own sounds, 4 plane colours, 4 banner themes, faster fly-bys, several calendars at once, and your own custom plane. The app is open source (MIT) on GitHub.
There's no backend. Your calendar is read straight from your device and kept only in memory — never written to disk or sent to us. Your sign-in is stored encrypted (Keychain / Windows DPAPI) only if you ask. No telemetry, no analytics. See the privacy note above.
macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) is available now — a Windows build (10 & 11) is coming soon. It lives in your menu bar and updates itself. The button above grabs the latest release.
Like any normal app: just drag it to the Trash on macOS (and once the Windows build lands, uninstall it from Settings). It leaves nothing behind on a server, because there's no server.
▸ who's behind the duck
Ooble Studio is a small creative design studio (since 2022) crafting premium UX/UI, branding and product strategy for Web3, AI and tech teams — 100+ projects shipped. Quakpit is one of our own little experiments: the same care we put into client work, pointed at a duck in a plane.
“We don't follow trends — we design what's next.”