Pengu detects any game you play, keeps Discord activity current, tracks playtime and adds optional game and browser tools when you want them.
I did not like the way Discord showed game-based activity, so I made Pengu as my own desktop companion. The idea started simple: know what I am playing, keep track of the useful details, and send the right parts to Discord so the activity actually feels personal.
Pengu tracks what games you play, how long you play them, and the important data a game exposes. It can then send the useful parts to your Discord client for more detailed activity instead of a generic game name.
My partner is also responsible for most of the artwork in the app. Most of it started because they were bored, and I was like, “Hmm... let’s use these artworks for something.” That is how I started coding Pengu.
A lot of games do not give you a useful daily playtime view, so I added tracking for today and recent days. Once Pengu was already giving games extra information, I thought: “mmmh... why not add the features I normally need separate apps for?”
That is how things like the Riot rank tools and the Path of Exile features started becoming part of Pengu instead of separate utilities.
At one point Pengu used about 400 MB of RAM and around 3% across two cores on my 16-core 9750X3D. That was not a big problem on my PC, but some friends with weaker systems noticed it, so I went through every part and function and optimized it.
When I was almost out of ideas, one of my friends kept complaining that their ad blocker was not working properly. That made me wonder if Pengu could have a browser companion too — something that could show tracked websites in Discord and also handle normal browser utilities.
That became the Pengu Browser Companion: optional website presence, ad blocking, clean links, remembered site volume, game tabs and the other browser tools that now live alongside the desktop app.
Pengu changes your activity as you switch games, exposes richer details where available, and falls back cleanly when you step away.
Pengu can keep generic activity simple, then add richer details when the game exposes useful information.
Game detection feeds Pengu, Pengu decides what should be shown, and Discord stays current without you updating it by hand.
Built around the things you actually want from a desktop companion: detection, Discord presence, game details and a few extras when they are useful.
Pengu follows whatever game you open and can prioritize the focused game when more than one is running.
Elden Ring → VALORANT as you switch focusEvery game can be detected, while mapped integrations can add mode, rank, character or match details when that data is available.
VALORANT • Competitive • Diamond 2See today's total, a per-game breakdown and the last seven days without turning Pengu into a giant analytics dashboard.
Today 3h 42m • 7 days 18h 16mShow a game fully, reduce it to “Playing a game”, or hide it from Pengu's Discord activity entirely.
Full details → Playing a game → HiddenStart with Windows, run tray-only, inspect the current activity state and keep Pengu updated automatically.
Start with Windows • Tray-only • Auto updatesWith the browser companion, only websites you explicitly track can become Discord activity.
YouTube Music • Listening to a tracked pagePengu keeps game-specific tools separate, so you can use the parts that matter to you and ignore everything else.
Optional local tools for resource readings, overlays and dangerous-map warnings.
Team information, ranks and supported match-state overlays with optional hotkeys.
Pengu can follow any game you launch; mapped integrations add richer details where the game exposes useful data.
The browser extension can connect explicitly tracked websites to Pengu and adds a handful of practical site tools. The desktop app works without it.
Extract the ZIP, open your browser’s Extensions page, enable Developer mode, then choose Load unpacked and select the extracted folder.
Pengu is designed to sit in the background instead of becoming another launcher you have to manage.
A few things worth knowing before you install Pengu.
Yes. Pengu can detect any game you launch. Games with mapped integrations can also show richer details such as rank, mode, character or match information when that data is available.
No. The desktop app works on its own. The browser companion is optional and adds tracked website presence, clean links, per-site volume and other browser tools.
For Discord activity, keep the Discord desktop app running alongside Pengu. for the Extension or the Gamefeatures no they can be used individually
Yes. Each detected game can be shown fully, reduced to a generic “Playing a game” activity, or hidden from Pengu's Discord activity.
Desktop preferences are stored locally on your PC in %localappdate%. Browser companion preferences such as saved volume levels and game-tab sets are stored locally in the browser.
Pengu Updates itself with every new Ship i release
Tell me what broke, what you expected to happen, and anything useful for reproducing it.
Got something Pengu should do? Send the idea directly to the feature-request channel.
Download the desktop companion and set up the parts you actually want to use.
The browser companion is optional and can be set up later from Pengu.
Show what you're playing on your Discord profile.
Set an optional return time while Pengu handles your Discord status.
Tracked while Pengu runs and detects your games.
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