Ducky DuckyType a message, hit send — whenever your friend opens their laptop, a duck flies across their screen with your words. They can quack back. Works on Mac and Windows.
Free • Mac & Windows
Free & open source — see the code on GitHub ↗
▸ three little steps
Set it up once. Then surprise your friends with ducks.
One click, your account follows you everywhere. No new passwords, no fuss.
Share a link, they download Ducky, you're connected. Works Mac↔Mac, Mac↔Windows, anything.
Type your message, hit send. Duck flies across their screen whenever they open their laptop 🦆
▸ why a duck?
Just another notification they'll ignore. Buried under sixty others by the time they look.
A duck flies across their screen with your message. Impossible to miss. Impossible not to smile.
▸ 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
Pick your character, colour and theme — then launch it. 
▸ the good bits
Send from Mac to Windows and vice versa. Cross-platform from day one — your friend's OS doesn't matter.
Send it now, they get it when they open their laptop. No pressure, no read receipts, no “seen 2m ago”.
After a duck lands, they can quack back with one click from the menu bar — your reply flies straight onto your screen.
The duck also flies before your meetings. Two features in one app: send-a-duck and a meeting heads-up.
Messages are encrypted in transit and hard-deleted from our servers the moment they're delivered. We never read them. Calendar events never leave your device.
▸ in case you wondered
Mac (Apple Silicon & Intel) and Windows 10/11. Download both from tryducky.app.
Invite a friend with a link. They download Ducky, click the link, you're connected. Send a message — duck flies across their screen within 60 seconds of them opening their laptop.
Ducky is free with 50 messages per day. Ducky Pro ($4.99/month or $19.99 lifetime) unlocks unlimited messages, extra characters (Shih Tzu, Cat, Dino, Astronaut), plane colours, and banner themes.
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.
Messages are encrypted in transit and hard-deleted from our servers the moment they're delivered. Calendar events are read straight from your device and kept only in memory — never written to disk. The app is open source (MIT) on GitHub.
Like any normal app: drag it to the Trash on macOS, or use Add/Remove Programs on Windows. It leaves nothing behind locally.