Desksquattaz

Changelog

What’s new on the desk. He was consulted. He did not reply.

14 builds since 1.0.0 on 7 October 2026. 14 in the last 30 days. New things arrive through the app itself: tray icon, then Update. Some changes are classified. You’ll know them when you see them.

Last updated: 17 October 2026

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Highlights

October 2026

v1.0.0

Open to everyone

  • Desksquattaz 1.0: a free download for everyone on Windows 10 and 11. No waitlist: sign in with Apple or Google and it is yours. →
  • Restore desktop: one button puts back icons he pushed and files he took, and closes anything stuck.
  • Connect your account from the app. Cat Plan and add-ons bought on the website show up within a minute.
  • His name is Toastah. Give him a nickname if you like; everyone uses it.
  • Start Cat Plan and he turns around: he faces you, says something, and opens the chat with a question. When it ends, he turns back. →
  • He only comments on the app you are using after you say yes. One card, Allow or No thanks, and a switch in Settings.
  • A painting and a photo every week on Cat Plan, whether or not he went on a trip. Image credits buy extra ones from his collection.
  • Fill his bowl and he says thanks, and he brings back more souvenirs while it has food. No streaks, no timers.
  • Help Wanted: every job got harder on Hard, typos count, mashing the laser keys does not, and icon restitution uses your real icons.
  • Add-ons cost more kibble to earn and less cash to buy. The kibble top-up is now 1,000.

October 2026

He drew a map

  • Territory: a new Meowputer map of his crew. Five friends, two crews down the street, and the birds, each with a portrait and a status. The streets are optional; the drawn block always works.
  • Sharper sprites: the cat, his friends, and every roommate are redrawn from the original art at a higher resolution, with soft edges instead of jagged lines, and the roommates now stand at full size on your icons.
  • New art for Vakoom, the visiting friends, and Toastah’s sweet face. Reddex has real routines now: idle, walk, eat, happy, curious, and sleep. The plant lost its white fringe.
  • The food bowl, the litter box, and My Stash are drawn as real objects now.
  • Mossfall: sculpted characters and props, full-resolution terrain, and a hero who moves like he means it.
  • Meowtra: Whisker Wars jumps have a real arc, with takeoff, a peak, and a fall.
  • Ancestor Places: trees with real leaves, garden pines, plates of fruit on Yi Tian’s offering tables, and props that look like what they are. No more flickering grounds and windows, and the mouse no longer gets stuck outside the world.
  • Learn about the Cat: the anatomy model is now a sculpted cat instead of simple shapes.
  • Meow Vision: places at real scale and softly lit. The grocery and your friend’s house are rebuilt, and the replay cat is solid and strolls instead of sprinting.
  • Dungeon Crawl: every monster has its own face, and the dungeon is dressed.
  • Commands: chat, the aquarium, and co-op stay available after one use. The shower and the ball cool down until the scene ends. The ball shows up again.
  • Meowputer tidy-up: cartridge icons sit on one grid and the footer is one status bar.
  • classifiedThe ████ desk changed staff and the numbers changed with them. We still do not explain.

September 2026

Open for business

  • Cat Plan and one-time add-ons are live, with a 7-day Cat Plan trial and no card needed. →
  • Out of kibble? Clock in from the desk and do small jobs for him. The pay is fair. He reviews it.
  • He can now drive his own Meowputer games. He is not better at them than you. He says he is.
  • Every item in My Shop, and every loot file in My Stash, has its own pixel icon.
  • 70 more public-domain cat paintings across five new museum galleries.
  • Learn about the Cat got a new anatomy model: better ears, bean pads, and bones.
  • Ancestor Places temples: new statues, fixed stairs, lanterns on posts, roofs that sit on walls.
  • Sprites are cleaner: no more white seam around the cat.
  • New website, with a playground where you can pet him in the browser. →

August 2026

v0.1.3

He got busier

  • Private beta opens, with updates inside the app (tray → Update).
  • Dungeon Crawl: a co-op dungeon on your desktop. Two players, twice the monsters.
  • Souvenirs: when he comes back from a trip, he sometimes leaves something on your desktop.
  • Roommates move in for good, and you can click and drag them.
  • Walking residents leave fading footprints on the desk.
  • Meowputer Moments.
  • Ancestor Places: temples where the cats who were here first are remembered.
  • New cartridges: Mossfall, Thought Explorer, and Meowtra: Whisker Wars.
  • classifiedSomething moved into a ████. It will not stop looking at you.
  • Saved sign-in details are now encrypted on your PC.
  • Fixed: the cat teleporting, drifting off screen, and (once) freezing the desktop. He denies all three.

July 2026

v0.1.0

He moved in

  • Toastah arrives on the Windows desktop. He roams, claims a corner, and relocates your icons.
  • Meowputer: his own computer, with a Journal, Meowter, My Bank, My Shop, Meow Painter, and Scratch Boom.
  • Care in real files: My Stash, his food bowl, and his litter box are folders on your desktop.
  • Pet him by zone. The belly is a trap.
  • Friend cats visit, forest birds raid, and Cats Parties happen.
  • My Stash: things he buys arrive on your desktop.
  • Explorations: Meow Vision, the virtual cat museum, and Learn about the Cat.
  • Furry Run, the first game cartridge.
  • Cream chat and My Assistant, for when he turns around.
  • classifiedA ████ desk appeared. He watches the numbers. We do not explain.

Every build

Windows builds, newest first.
VersionDateWhat changed
1.2.916 October 2026Maintenance build
1.2.815 October 2026The desk staying closed until setup and sign-in finish, Cat Plan reads with a fresh token and a diagnostics trail, the composer care bar, stash-style souvenir icons and ten island specialties, Scratch Boom's The Alley with sharper sprites, Scuffle in Territory, and ten more Meowscape sites
1.2.714 October 2026The shorter sit (about 50% idle while the app is open), the offline work clock (missed shifts deposited on startup and on wake), the version in You with Update only when a newer build is waiting, Meow Vision Cams 06–09 (four more cat islands) with the Tashirojima fixes, the four islands in the weekly photo (32 plates; library blob 388 plates, 430 slots, 1,225,469 lines, sha ), Cat Plan staying open while the subscription is still active, and the installed desk opening when the user signs in
1.2.613 October 2026The violet Meowputer button and the green, blue, and orange care meters, the roommate reaction and recovered bank lines in the library blob (356 plates, 430 slots, 1,225,434 lines, sha ), Meow Vision Cam 05 Tashirojima, and the Tashirojima weekly-photo plates with cast lines and roommate comments
1.2.513 October 2026The Blueprint ear callout, the Flying Toastahs wing shade, Screensaver & Wallpaper as one app, the desk account in composer Settings, the shorter tray menu, and the composer split into Cat & friends and You
1.2.413 October 2026The Meowter DM transcript, one live reply per message, the cat's portrait on My Assistant, the Help Wanted daily cap of 8, the new Meowputer screensavers and wallpapers, the Cat-net call log, and the installer and crash-report changes (, last section)
1.2.312 October 2026The freeze fix (Direct3D instead of forced OpenGL) and the GPU-process capture ()
1.2.212 October 2026The crash reports folder ()
1.2.112 October 2026Everything in this note that 1
1.2.011 October 2026The composer, Cat-net, Meow Painter New, the first bank pack, the canned-line voice pick, the signup window, and the Cat Bowl meal clock
1.1.110 October 2026Maintenance build
1.1.010 October 2026Maintenance build
1.0.18 October 2026Maintenance build
1.0.07 October 2026Maintenance build
0.1.49 August 2026Maintenance build
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