Keeper OS

The desktop behind the top-right button: your apps, every notification, settings and the site.

What it is

The button at the top right of the game opens the Keeper OS, a desktop of apps that floats over your aquarium. Your fish keep swimming underneath while it is open. At the top are quick buttons for full screen, sound, your account and settings.

Each app opens in its own window. On a computer you can drag, resize, minimise and maximise them; on a phone the Keeper OS stays out of the way: the button opens a plain menu of the same apps instead, an app fills the screen when you tap it, and Back returns to the list. Escape, or the button again, takes you back to the water.

Every app and room opens on a painted band from one of the game's own places, with its picture, what it is for and its main buttons. What it holds is laid out as cards, each with its picture standing in the game's water.

The apps

The apps sit in four groups. Someone visiting another aquarium, or looking at the showcase, sees only the ones that make sense there.

Your reef: My aquariums, the Reef Journal and Notifications.
Social: Friends, Community and News.
You: Account, Settings, Help and Shortcuts.
Fishies on the web: the front page, the wiki, the press page, Discord, Contact, Privacy and Terms.
My aquariums, the Reef Journal and News open the game’s own rooms, exactly as before.
The dock along the bottom keeps the apps you use most, and any window you have open.

One notification centre

Everything the game tells you lands in one list: care reports from your aquarium, visits and new followers, gifts to open, finished quests and achievements, a level reward waiting, and news from the team. New rows are marked, and opening the centre reads them. Replies, mentions and answers from the team in the Community land here too.

Each line says what happened and offers at most one button that does something about it: Feed takes you to the hungry fish, Open opens the gift. Lines sit under Today, Yesterday and Earlier, a gold dot marks what is new, and the cross or Clear all puts away what you are done with. This device’s notifications turn on or off at the foot. What you put away stays away, after a reload and on your other devices too.

When the Fishies team gives you a badge, you are told as soon as you are in the game, and the badge keeps its row in the list.

Settings

Settings has six sections, and every option the game has lives in exactly one of them.

Game: your language, the Next goal line, quest rail and Simple level-up, sale and change bubbles and Confirm before selling, Auto-incubate eggs, and in Open Water the other keepers’ names and chat bubbles, and who can send you gifts.
Sound: sound on or off, the music and effects levels, and the soundtrack.
Display: full screen, Battery saver, Reduce motion, the graphics engine, shortcut hints, dock labels, and the keyboard shortcuts.
Notifications: this device, your other devices, Telegram and Discord.
Account: your account, Discord activity, the keepers you have blocked, and signing out.
Advanced: the version, where to report a bug, tidying the desktop, and Restart the game, which reloads the game without signing you out.

Keys

The bell and the gear beside it at the top right open Notifications and Settings straight over your aquarium, without the Keeper OS. The game’s own shortcuts still work: G opens the Keeper OS, N opens Notifications, O opens Settings and J opens the sound settings. Inside the desktop:

Ctrl K searches every app.
Alt 1 to 9 opens the apps in the dock.
Alt W closes a window, Alt M minimises it and Alt ↑ maximises it.
Escape goes back to the aquarium. In the desktop app, Escape on the aquarium itself asks whether to quit.

In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/keeper-os · Fishies 0.8.10

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