Click anywhere. He walks there.
Right-click for his quick menu. Two fingers on a phone.
MENU sets weather, backdrops and behavior.
Drag objects. Double-click one to resize it.
Nothing you upload leaves your device.
Jimothy is a real wild animal, not a pet.
Don’t feed him, touch him, or crowd him for a photo.
Feeding him is how a neighborhood favorite becomes a “problem animal.”
Secure your trash. Leash your dog. Give him the sidewalk.
Injured animal near Seattle? PAWS, 425-412-4040.
Jimothy Screensaver is a free browser toy that puts a pixel-art raccoon on your screen. He wanders a procedurally generated yard, follows your cursor, sniffs objects you place, and does zoomies on his own. It runs full-bleed in a browser tab, so it works as an ambient second-monitor screensaver or a desk toy.
Yes, completely free. No account, no signup, no watermarks, no feature gates, and no limits on how long he stays on screen. Everything you place and every setting you change is saved locally in your own browser.
Click or tap anywhere and Jimothy walks there. Right-click (or two-finger tap on a phone) opens a quick menu for actions like zoomies, sniffing, and adding objects. The MENU button opens settings for 6 weather moods, 18 backdrops, speed, and whether he roams on his own or follows your pointer.
No. Everything runs locally in your browser using JavaScript. Photos you upload as backdrops or custom objects never leave your device, there is no server and no upload step, and nothing is stored beyond your own browser's local storage plus basic anonymous page analytics. Uploaded images are re-encoded before storage, so location data baked into your photos is discarded rather than kept.
Jimothy is a real wild raccoon living in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood who went viral in July 2026 for his unusually short, round shape, believed to be short spine syndrome. Seattle City Council proclaimed the season “Jimothy Summer,” Google gave him a search Easter egg, and Roku added him to the Roku City screensaver.
No. Jimothy is a wild animal, not a pet and not an attraction, and this app is as close as any of us should get. Never feed raccoons, never let them reach your garbage, feed cats and dogs indoors, and lock pet doors at night. A fed raccoon loses its fear of people, and that rarely ends well for the raccoon. If you find an injured animal in the Seattle area, PAWS Wildlife Center can help at 425-412-4040.
Yes. Open MENU, go to Scene, and upload any PNG, JPG, GIF, or WebP as the backdrop. You can also upload your own images as placeable objects alongside the 48 built-in ones, so Jimothy will walk around and sniff your own stuff. Every image is re-encoded on your device before it is saved, which strips EXIF and GPS data as a side effect.
Yes. Tap to move him, two-finger tap for the quick menu, and drag objects with one finger. The scene resizes to your screen in either orientation. Any modern browser with JavaScript works, on any operating system.
It is a browser screensaver, not a downloadable .scr or system screensaver. Hit the fullscreen button in the menu, set Change scene to 1, 5 or 15 minutes, and it will keep generating fresh yards on its own for as long as you leave it open. Good on a second monitor or an old tablet. Nothing to install, nothing to uninstall.
Jimothy's First Game is a four-mission 8-bit NES-style game with objectives, hazards, and a score. Jimothy Screensaver has no goals and no fail state. It is an ambient sandbox where he lives on your screen and you decorate his yard.
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