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Pets downloads statistics
By Gabriel Lee · JetBrains Marketplace · Productivity
Adds a cute pet to your favourite IDE. Inspired (very heavily) by vscode-pets created by Anthony Shaw. Features A pet that walks around, sits, follows you, interacts...
Pets has 87,864 recorded downloads on JetBrains Marketplace.
It ranks #986 of 2,500 tracked JetBrains Marketplace listings by downloads.
It is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 29 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.86 / 5 from 29 ratings
About Pets
Adds a cute pet to your favourite IDE.
Inspired (very heavily) by vscode-pets created by Anthony Shaw.
Features
• A pet that walks around, sits, follows you, interacts with you, basically a fwend • Pet variants: 5 cats, bunny, chicken, axolotl, hedgehog, 5 dogs, etc. • Pet scale setting, to adjust the size of your pet
How to use
• After installation, you'll find a pet icon on the right toolbar of your IDE, click on it to open the tool window • To change the pet variant, go to Preferences > Tools > Pets, and select a pet variant (see screenshot)
Credits
• Original idea from vscode-pets created by Anthony Shaw • All pet spritesheets created by SeethingSwarm (note: the assets were purchased, must not be resold, see itch.io page for details)
Description from the JetBrains Marketplace listing.
- Productivity
- Time Management
Where Pets sits in the listing
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Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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Recent observations
Full history (3)Similar JetBrains Marketplace Productivity plugins
Data source
Cumulative download counts come from the public JetBrains Marketplace API. JetBrains reports downloads, not active installs. Ratings are the mean of public votes.
Listing: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21008-pets. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.