Mushroom › Features

Everything Mushroom can do.

The whole list. Almost all of it is off until you ask for it. The one purchase covers everything here except Friends and file sharing, which need a membership or your own server, and the optional skins, which are sold on their own.

It watches the clock so you don't

It looks after you.

Six small nudges, timed around what you are actually doing, and the controls to shape them.

Water

Gentle sips, not nagging. It asks once and lets it go.

Breaks

It notices how long you have really been active, then suggests a stretch.

Snacks

Because lunch keeps mysteriously disappearing.

Eye strain

The 20-20-20 rule, remembered for you.

Bedtime and quiet hours

No pings while you are away or winding down.

How you are

A gentle check-in you answer with one tap. No wrong answer, and no opinion about it.

Your own reminders

"Remind me in 2 hours to call Tom." Plain words, and it just happens. Or type one into the form and edit it later: every day, certain weekdays, every few days, or once a month.

Tune each one

Every reminder gets its own sound, its own hours, and a daily goal if you want one. Water on the clock, snacks only at lunch, and your own list of little chores for break time.

Done, Snooze, or Skip

Not right now? Skip it, and the next one still arrives on the normal interval. Your mushroom takes an honest "no" as well as it takes a yes.

Pause when you need to

One menu bar click holds every nudge back for an hour, until tomorrow, or until you say so. Nothing is lost, it all arrives once you are back.

Appointments

Tick a shared family calendar and your mushroom nudges you before each appointment. It only reads your calendar, and there is nothing to set up or sync.

Focus sessions

Pick a length from the menu bar, ask in plain words, or start one from Shortcuts. It holds its nudges for the whole session and wears a small countdown. When the time is up it suggests a break, asks how it went in one tap, and the session lands in your stats. Nothing held back is lost.

Streaks, stats and trends

Your streak, six months of activity at a glance, this week against last week. Miss a day and nothing is taken away, and a quieter week is never shown in red. Settings, Data can save the whole history out as a spreadsheet.

It learns when to ask

Your mushroom notices when a nudge keeps going unanswered at the same time of day, and offers to keep quiet then. It shows you which hours and why, and nothing changes unless you say yes. Worked out on your Mac, from what is already saved there, and never sent anywhere.

Set up in one click

Pick a starting point and the intervals and goals are chosen for you.

Meeting aware

Optionally stay quiet while a calendar event is on.

Call aware

Stay quiet while your mic is live, for the calls no calendar knows about. It only checks whether another app is using the mic, never listens, and asks for no permission.

Dark room

On a Mac with a light sensor, a nudge to put a light on. Direct download only.

Coding companion

Using Claude Code or Codex? Your mushroom bobs along while one works, shows when it needs you, and a click jumps back to its terminal. Your limits sit beside the menu bar icon, with a heads up before you run out. Off until you switch it on, and direct download only. It reads no prompts and no logins: exactly which files.

Focus mode friendly

Turn on a macOS Focus and the pet fades back, or pauses, or both.

Only when it needs you

Out of sight until a reminder is waiting. Or always on screen. Your call.

Out of the way

When the window in front fills the screen it jumps down out of sight (or walks off to the side, your choice), and back once that window is out of the way. Browsers keep it company, and a right-click chooses for any one app.

The Reminders window listing four reminders, each with when it next fires and a Pause, edit and delete control on its row.

The reminders list is the only place a reminder can be paused or deleted, so nothing ever disappears by accident.

Talk to your mushroom

It talks, and it helps.

Ask for anything in plain language. The model runs on your Mac, on Apple Intelligence or one you download once.

Read aloud

Copy any text, press your shortcut, and your mushroom reads it back. Pick the voice and the speed.

Photo memories

Once a day your mushroom shows you an old photo, a gentle little look back. Off until you ask for it, and it only reads your photos, never changing or sending them.

People to call, and video calls

List the people you would want to reach in a hurry. A help button opens big, readable rows: the name, the number in plain text, and one button that calls.

Shortcuts, and Siri

"Add a Reminder" and "Start a Focus Session" are Shortcuts actions, so they drop straight into your own automations. Mushroom does not even have to be open.

Just ask

With chat pointed at your own server, say "no more eye reminders" or "make the mushroom bigger" and it changes the setting. Ask what is in your Stash, or for a file you shared, and it finds it.

Tool plugins

One small JSON file teaches the chat a new trick: a cat fact, a word lookup, your own API. Browse the gallery.

Email scan

Drop in a suspicious message and it checks the sender, the links and the files, then tells you plainly what it found.

Weather

Conditions or tomorrow's forecast, and it knows where you mean. Set your town and a little weather emoji sits beside the pet whenever no music is playing, and beside the menu bar icon on the Mac.

Sunrise and sunset

A gentle hello as the sun comes up, and again as it goes down.

A quote each morning

One inspirational line and who said it, word for word.

Time anywhere

"What time is it in Beijing?" Several places at once, if you like.

News, your feeds

A window with search, a filter for each feed and a short summary under every headline, opening by itself at the times you pick. Quoted word for word, and Summarize writes a few cited points with the model chat uses.

Notepad

A little scratchpad that saves as you type.

Snooze by chat

"Snooze that for 20 minutes." Said, done.

Five languages

English, Deutsch, Français, Español, 日本語.

Your shortcuts

Record your own keys to open chat, notes, or reminders from any app.

Pong and Snake

Two little games in the menu bar, for a proper break. Mouse or keys, your choice.

It runs

Ask it to "do something cool" and it sprints across your screen.

The Stash

Links, notes and files you throw at the pet, kept in one place, searchable, and synced to your phone. Ask in chat and it brings one back.

Markdown viewer

Double-click a markdown file, or choose Mushroom from Open With, and it opens clean and scrollable: headings, lists, tables, code blocks and quotes all rendered properly, no other app needed.

The chat panel above the pet. The user has asked what the weather is, and the mushroom has answered with the conditions in Los Angeles.

Ask in plain words. The model runs on your Mac, so the conversation never leaves it.

Mushroom to mushroom

Say hello, mushroom to mushroom.

Your mushroom can carry messages. Invite one person with an 8 character code that works once, then chat in a panel right under the pet. There are no usernames and no directory to appear in: a code is the only way anyone reaches you.

8character code
Oncethen it expires
Lockedbefore it leaves
30dthen the server forgets
Nousernames to find

Messages are locked on your Mac and opened on theirs, so the server only ever passes along something it cannot read. Each conversation shows a safety number: read it out to your friend and if it matches on both Macs then nobody is in the middle. Blocking someone or deleting a conversation is one click.

What Friends needs, and how to run it yourself ›

Spore Storage

Send a file to anyone, even your grandmother.

Drop a file on your mushroom and it hands you back a link. The file is locked on your Mac first, and the key to open it lives inside the link, so our server holds something it cannot read. Send the link to anyone, with nothing to install and no account at their end.

24hthen it's gone
End to endencrypted
95 MBper file
3 GBlive at once
10files per drop
Anyfile type

What Spore Storage needs, and how to run it yourself ›

In your pocket

Now in your pocket.

The phone carries the three things that are better in your pocket than on a Mac you have walked away from. Hold the license amount in your wallet and the companion unlocks on the same balance, with nothing extra to buy, and everything moves through your own iCloud account.

Reminders, wherever you are

Anything you asked to be reminded of turns up on the phone too, and you can make one there. Water, breaks and the other built-in nudges stay on the Mac, because they follow how long you have really been at your desk.

Your Stash on the train

Everything you saved, searchable, and you can add a link or a note from the phone's Share sheet. The offline copies of pages stay on the Mac, where there is room for them.

Answer a friend

The same conversations, the names you gave people, and what you have already read. Point the phone at the code your Mac shows in Settings, Friends, and it will join the same license, bringing your own servers with it if that is what your Mac uses.

The phone has no pet and no chat. It is there for the moments you are away from your desk, and the Mac stays the main event.

The money rail

It can pay for itself, and it can pay you.

$MUSHROOM is not a sticker on the box. It is the license, the payment rail under the agent features, and the thing every sale in the app buys back and burns.

Hold to unlock

250,000 $MUSHROOM in the wallet you point the app at, and Mushroom Pro is on: every skin, every future version, five devices. The check reads a public balance and nothing else.

An x402 endpoint

Claude Code, Codex or your own agent can book a focus block or schedule a nudge and pay for it per request in $MUSHROOM. HTTP 402 in, an answer out, no account anywhere.

Burn on every sale

Skins, passes and agent calls all route through the same buyback and burn, so using the app takes supply off the market instead of just moving it around.

Founder Spore

One skin that is never sold: minted for the first 1,000 wallets holding through launch week, and unobtainable afterwards at any price.

On Windows 11

On a PC? It comes along.

Mushroom runs on Windows 11 too, the same pet on your desktop. A license from this site covers your Macs and your PCs together, and the Windows app updates itself the same way the Mac one does.

The same pet and nudges

Water, breaks and eye strain, timed around whether you are really at the desk, and reminders you set in plain words.

Chat on the PC

A small model you download once runs on the PC itself, or point chat at a server of your own.

Stash and Friends

Save links and notes, and message your friends, the same as on the Mac.

On your taskbar

It stands on the taskbar wherever yours is, and follows it when it moves or changes size.

An 8-bit look

Pixel fonts, square windows and chunky buttons, like this site. Settings, General switches it back to the plain look.

A Work look

A sphere of sparkling water that sloshes when you drag it, for desks where you would rather keep it low-key.

Its own reminder pop-up

Reminders slide in on Mushroom's own little card instead of a Windows notification, and wait while a fullscreen app is in front.

iCloud sync, Shortcuts, Focus and calendar awareness are Apple features, so they stay on the Mac. Everything else is the same app on the PC, on the same license.

Add-on

Dress your mushroom.

Ten colors, in an add-on that puts a Skins tab in Settings. Purely cosmetic: nothing in it changes a reminder.

Free with the app, and separate from this: Settings, General also offers a Work look, a sphere of sparkling water that sloshes when you drag it, for desks where you would rather keep it low-key.

50,000 $MUSHROOM unlocks the pack, and every purchase of it is used to buy $MUSHROOM back off the market and burn it. Needs 1.23.0 or later, with black and white arriving in 1.46.0. Holding the license amount includes the pack, so most people never see this line as a price at all. The color you pick stays on the Mac you picked it on.

Kind by design

It stays private.

Everything lives on your Mac, and the model it chats with runs there too. It connects only to what a feature needs, and every feature that sends something of yours starts switched off.

On-device, and no analytics

The chat model runs on your Mac. The app has no analytics and no tracking. Only weather, the daily quote, news and the tools you add go online, and each sends only what its request needs: the place for weather, and for a tool, what you asked it to look up, sent to the service that tool uses. Plus chat itself if you point it at a server of your own.

Your own iCloud, or none

Turn on iCloud sync and your Macs share through your own private iCloud, never through us. Leave it off and nothing syncs at all.

Run the servers yourself

Both server features can run in your own cloud account or on your own hardware, and neither touches us. The server software is open source: read it or run it. That setting is in both versions.

No Accessibility, no Input Monitoring

It never sees your keystrokes. It reads one number the system already keeps: how long since you last touched anything.

Daily backups

Point it at a folder and it keeps a daily snapshot, the newest 3 kept, encrypted with a passphrase if you like. Restoring is one explicit act through the Import button.

The whole policy

What is stored, what is never sent, and the legal basis for each. Read the privacy policy.

Try the whole thing for a week.

Everything on this page, switched on, for 7 days. No account and no card.