Little scenes
Squints at your cursor, pounces and misses ("meant to do that"), builds a sandcastle and watches it wash away, gets the hiccups.
💞 Good company
Just the two of you.
Little scenes, gifts he digs up, games, a bond that grows, a tank to decorate and a beach of everything you ship. None of it needs Claude or an account.
24little scenes to catch
102finds in thirteen sets
5pals on the floor
0accounts needed
He remembers you
From New friends to Inseparable.
Petting, playing and simply keeping him around bring you closer, and each step opens something up: memories, his favourite find, hearts in the sand, a lean on your cursor.
The story of you two
He remembers your moments together ("You shook him off Excel"), your birthday, and his.
Gifts from digging
Sea glass, a bottle cap, a lost key, a pearl, a fossil, and very rarely a black pearl or a gold doubloon.
Snacks and naps
Gentle by design: it never goes below a floor, never drops while you're away and never costs you anything.
When nothing's happening
He gets up to something.
He notices your day
"gg" when a game ends, "numbers again?" after an hour in Excel, "friday!" on a Friday afternoon.
Hide and seek
He burrows into the sand and pops up behind one of your windows. They really do hide him.
Fetch
He waits for you to throw the pebble, scuttles after it and brings it back.
Crabs that chat
When a friend's crab visits, the two of them talk, and it depends on both temperaments.
XP without Claude
Petting, feeding, games and finds earn XP, and sixteen trophies come with outfits of their own.
Your beach
A sandcastle for every project you ship.
Every project you ship (a push, a deploy, a release or a merged PR) gets a sandcastle built from its own seed: a tower house at 5 ships, a keep at 15, a citadel at 40. The tide comes in with your streak, and his finds wash up along the line of seaweed where your best one reached.
A tank to decorate
He lives there. You arrange it.
Put something in
A sandcastle, a rock cave, kelp, a treasure chest and the finds he's dug up, where you want them.
He lives there
He wanders among it all, hides in the castle, naps in his cave and nibbles the kelp.
Pieces you earn
From the start, from trophies, from the seasons and from his digging. Never from a shop.
Gauges in disguise
The tank quietly shows your PC's temperature and your dev servers.
Saved layouts
Stickers on the glass, undo and redo, and a peek at friends' tanks.
Mouse or keyboard
Decorate with the mouse, or with the keyboard alone.
Tides, sparklies, eggs and swaps
Things to show someone.
Tide events
Six times a year something's going on at sea (Harvest Moon, The Haunting, Frostbite, Pen Pal Week, Spring Clean, Low Tide), each with four goals.
A medal with a year on it
Finish every goal while it's on for that year's medal, the event's trophy and a piece for his tank.
Sparklies
Now and then a find comes up sparkly, in colours you'll rarely see: 1 in 128, or 1 in 64 at Low Tide.
Crab eggs
From level 5, lay an egg for a friend who doesn't have Shellby yet. It hatches into a baby crab you both keep.
Swaps
Swap finds with friends, sparkly ones too. You always keep one of everything.
Nothing for sale
None of it can be bought, and nothing is ever taken away.
Next
🎩 Dresses up
Get Shellby. It's free.
Free for Windows 10 and 11. Bring your Claude Pro or Max plan, or just keep him for company.