Components/Pals anywhere

Pals on any website

Google, X, Wikipedia, your friend's portfolio: one click and pals move in. Throw a party, make it snow on the headlines, let a dragon loose, turn the lights out. Or keep a little pixel pet that lives with you on every site. Only you can see them; nothing on the site changes.

Get the extension Or use the bookmarklet
It's in! Your pet is already on this page; it'll be on every site you visit now. Click the Piixpal icon in your toolbar to pick a different pet, or press Alt+Shift+P on any page for the party panel.

What it does

★PartyA beetle on the headline, moss on a paragraph, a bird on the buttons, a jelly on the footer, bees.
❄Snow daySnow that settles on the real shapes of the letters, and a penguin to enjoy it.
🐉DragonA three-hundred-pixel dragon swims round your cursor and breathes fire where you click.
🔦Lights outThe page goes dark, your cursor is a lantern, and shy creatures hide in the shadows of the layout.
♥Stickers, trails, surprisesPeel stickers onto anything, leave a pixel trail, or get four random pals.
✎Your own palPaste a link from the Pal Maker and the pal you drew turns up on any site.

The browser extension: a pet that lives with you

Pick a pet and it's there on every site you visit, finding the best heading to live on. The toolbar button switches pets (or uses one you made), turns it off for a site, and opens the party panel; so does Alt+Shift+P. It works on sites that block the bookmarklet, it loads only what your pet needs (about 40 KB), and it sends nothing anywhere.

And a light switch for the whole web. A little bulb hangs on a chain at the top right of every page. Pull it and the page goes dark, even a site with no dark mode of its own; pull it on a dark site and you get light mode. Photos, video and pals keep their true colours, each site remembers which way you left it (no flash of white when you come back), and Alt+Shift+L flips it without the bulb. Don't want the bulb hanging there? Switch it off in the toolbar popup; the shortcut still works.

Download the extension (.zip) Source on GitHub

Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera

  1. Unzip the download somewhere you'll keep it.
  2. Open chrome://extensions (or edge://extensions) and switch on Developer mode.
  3. Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
  4. Pin Piixpal to your toolbar. Done: your pet is out.

Firefox

  1. Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox.
  2. Click Load Temporary Add-on and pick manifest.json inside the unzipped folder.
  3. Firefox forgets temporary add-ons on restart; a signed version is on its way.

The bookmarklet: nothing to install

Drag this button to your bookmarks bar. On any site, click it and the panel opens. Some sites (GitHub, X and other strict ones) block outside scripts; the extension works there.

Piixpal visit

Share what happened

A dragon on the front page of the news, snow on a Wikipedia article, a beetle on your boss's LinkedIn: take a screenshot (the – button hides the panel, the pals stay) and post it. People always ask how.