Download Kindred Spirit Setup

One app for your Mac that gets Pip ready: her brain, her AI, her voice and hearing, and Minecraft's side. It opens a guide in your browser that explains each step, recommends a choice, and tests it. No terminal, and nothing else to install by hand.

Download for Apple silicon

M1, M2, M3, M4 and newer

Download for an Intel Mac

Built and tested on GitHub's Intel Mac; not yet tried on a real one

The buttons fetch the newest release's .dmg from GitHub, where every file is published with its source code. You can also pick it yourself on the releases page: Kindred-Spirit-Setup-<version>-macos-arm64.dmg for Apple silicon, …-macos-x86_64.dmg for Intel.

Not sure which Mac you have?

Apple menu → About This Mac: it says Chip: Apple M… (Apple silicon) or Processor: Intel. The Setup needs macOS 12 (Monterey) or newer and about 3 GB of free space, and Minecraft Java Edition.

Opening it the first time

Open the .dmg and drag Kindred Spirit Setup onto the Applications folder next to it.
Open it from Applications. macOS will probably stop it, saying Apple could not verify that it is free of malware. That's normal for a free app from a small project: Apple only recognises apps whose makers pay for a yearly Apple Developer membership, and this one doesn't (yet). Its code is all on GitHub, for anyone to read.
Open it anyway, once:
- macOS 15 Sequoia or newer: press Done (not "Move to Trash"). Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security, and next to "Kindred Spirit Setup was blocked…" press Open Anyway. Confirm with your password or Touch ID, then press Open Anyway once more.
- macOS 12, 13 or 14: in Applications, hold Control and click the app (or right-click it), choose Open, then Open again.
After that, it opens with a double-click like any other app.
Follow the steps in the page it opens: your computer, her brain, her AI (for talking, and for her slow thinking), her instincts, voice and hearing, Minecraft (a launcher profile for 26.3, recommended, or 1.21.1), saying hi to her in the game, and whether she wakes when you log in. Each step has Test it, and Copy a help prompt for when something goes wrong: it copies the step, your Mac and the exact error, with keys, e-mail addresses and your user name taken out, ready for any AI assistant.

If macOS says the app "is damaged and can't be opened": the download was probably cut short; download it again. Every step, and how to check the download's fingerprint: the Setup's guide.

Updates

The Setup's Updates step asks GitHub for the newest version, shows what's new, and updates her brain, the mod and the Setup together. Your settings, keys and memories stay. The version before is kept, and Go back returns to it.

What nobody has tried yet

Kindred Spirit is a beta. Every release builds the Setup on GitHub's Apple silicon and Intel Macs and runs it there, with a stand-in AI: it installs her, downloads and tests her voice and hearing, and installs the mod. These need a person, and haven't been tried yet:

downloading the .dmg and getting past the first-run warning above;
a real Intel Mac;
Open Minecraft with a real launcher and account, and macOS asking for the microphone;
her AI with real keys through the Setup, and updating from one release to the next.

Tried one? An issue saying how it went helps a lot.

Not on a Mac?

Joining a friend who hosts Pip: you need only Minecraft, Fabric and the mod, on Windows too. See Friends on LAN.
Hosting her on Windows or Linux isn't supported yet: it's planned, on the roadmap.
From the source code (contributors, or without the app): the manual setup.