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
▸ 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
Thirteen characters — Duck, Shih Tzu, Dino, Cat, Astronaut, Santa on his sleigh, a Witch on her broomstick, the Halloween crew, and Ganesha riding his mouse — five plane colours and every banner theme, including the seasonal ones that follow the calendar. Pick your bits, then launch it and watch it cross the sky.
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 10 messages per day. Ducky Pro ($4.99/month or $19.99 lifetime) unlocks unlimited messages, all 13 characters (Shih Tzu, Cat, Dino, Astronaut, Santa & Reindeer, the Halloween set — Witch, Pumpkin, Ghost, Skeleton, Bat — and Ganesha on his mouse), every plane colour, and every banner theme including the seasonal ones.
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.
Like any normal app: drag it to the Trash on macOS, or use Add/Remove Programs on Windows. It leaves nothing behind locally.