My Favourite Application Mascots

It’s so cooler when you have an animal or some cute animated character as a mascot for your software. If you don’t get what I'm saying, then read on. Some may take it as a logo, but a logo can be anything, a sign, symbol or just stylized font. It adds that little extra “brand”ness to your product when you have a mascot. Here are my favourites:

1. Twitter: The tweet bird goes so well with the name twitter and embeds itself perfectly with the actual working concept of twitter. But with the enormous popularity of this tweet bird has anyone forgotten their childhood favourite Tweety?

2. Digsby: This is my favourite IM, mail and social networking client and I have also written Why Digsby is the best. I like the Digsby green egg-guy for two reasons. One, its cool… just like how an IM client should be. Second, and the most important point, unlike Twitter and the following apps, Digsby has given a face to itself without having the application named after the cartoon creature.

3. Seesmic: This is another IM client which I don’t like so much even though it’s pretty well known and used by many. Here too, the mascot has taken the face of this application which nowhere mentions that this application is related to a Raccoon. It took time for me to figure out whether this guy was a Raccoon and I hope I’m not wrong

4. Pidgin: This is also an IM client and is pretty good too. I used to use Pidgin before Digsby, and until now its only Digsby all the way. Notice the stupid look on the Pidgin’s Pigeon :-) Just like a pigeon, but not like Pidgin!

5. eMule: is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Many developers contribute to the project, so the network gets more and more efficient with every new version. The mascot is pretty cool but nothing great since the general picture is obvious by the name itself.

6. MailChimp: This monkey makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. Chimp uses tools like segmentation, a/b testing, and ROI tracking), and its accessible to anyone. The mascot picture is too detailed and is more of a picture than an icon. If you to their home page, you just can’t see the mascot anywhere! What a waste!

Last but not the least, you surely recognize the Firefox Icon, but here’s one mascot which is just too cute to ignore! This is a special animated version of the Fire”Fox” and I first saw this on the twitter account of FirefoxCares. Adorable isn’t it? Do you know of other Application Mascots? Share it with us.

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