diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/UpdateCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/UpdateCard.tsx
index 639575a8e31..791955cfb8f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/UpdateCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/UpdateCard.tsx
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
    renderer surface. Keeping the state machine and its presentation variants together avoids
    scattering tightly coupled update behavior across multiple files. */
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react'
+import { usePrefersReducedMotion } from '@/hooks/usePrefersReducedMotion'
 import { useAppStore } from '../store'
 import { Card } from './ui/card'
 import { Button } from './ui/button'
@@ -197,14 +198,7 @@ export function UpdateCard() {
   }, [status.state])
 
   // ── Prefers-reduced-motion ──────────────────────────────────────────
-  const [prefersReducedMotion, setPrefersReducedMotion] = useState(false)
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const mq = window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)')
-    setPrefersReducedMotion(mq.matches)
-    const handler = (e: MediaQueryListEvent) => setPrefersReducedMotion(e.matches)
-    mq.addEventListener('change', handler)
-    return () => mq.removeEventListener('change', handler)
-  }, [])
+  const prefersReducedMotion = usePrefersReducedMotion()
 
   useEffect(() => {
     return () => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/feature-wall/feature-wall-modal-helpers.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/feature-wall/feature-wall-modal-helpers.ts
index 9903df13cfe..afdb12316e5 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/feature-wall/feature-wall-modal-helpers.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/feature-wall/feature-wall-modal-helpers.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
 import type { FeatureWallOpenSourceTelemetry } from '../../../../shared/telemetry-events'
-
-const REDUCED_MOTION_QUERY = '(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)'
+export { usePrefersReducedMotion } from '@/hooks/usePrefersReducedMotion'
 
 export function getFeatureWallOpenSource(
   modalData: Record<string, unknown>
@@ -11,27 +9,3 @@ export function getFeatureWallOpenSource(
     ? source
     : 'unknown'
 }
-
-export function usePrefersReducedMotion(): boolean {
-  const [prefersReducedMotion, setPrefersReducedMotion] = useState(() => {
-    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || !window.matchMedia) {
-      return false
-    }
-    return window.matchMedia(REDUCED_MOTION_QUERY).matches
-  })
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || !window.matchMedia) {
-      return
-    }
-    const media = window.matchMedia(REDUCED_MOTION_QUERY)
-    setPrefersReducedMotion(media.matches)
-    const onChange = (event: MediaQueryListEvent): void => {
-      setPrefersReducedMotion(event.matches)
-    }
-    media.addEventListener('change', onChange)
-    return () => media.removeEventListener('change', onChange)
-  }, [])
-
-  return prefersReducedMotion
-}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/pet/PetOverlay.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/pet/PetOverlay.tsx
index d434410d943..a3fc537c383 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/pet/PetOverlay.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/pet/PetOverlay.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { useEffect, useId, useRef, useState } from 'react'
+import { usePrefersReducedMotion } from '@/hooks/usePrefersReducedMotion'
 import { usePetUrl } from './usePetUrl'
 import type { DetectedSpriteCacheEntry } from './pet-blob-cache'
 import type { CustomPet } from '../../../../shared/types'
@@ -176,25 +177,6 @@ function useDocumentVisible(): boolean {
   return visible
 }
 
-function usePrefersReducedMotion(): boolean {
-  const [reduced, setReduced] = useState(() => {
-    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || typeof window.matchMedia !== 'function') {
-      return false
-    }
-    return window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)').matches
-  })
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || typeof window.matchMedia !== 'function') {
-      return
-    }
-    const mq = window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)')
-    const onChange = (event: MediaQueryListEvent): void => setReduced(event.matches)
-    mq.addEventListener('change', onChange)
-    return () => mq.removeEventListener('change', onChange)
-  }, [])
-  return reduced
-}
-
 // Why: keep a default for the cached helpers below; the live size now comes
 // from the store so the user can resize from the status-bar menu.
 const SIZE = 180
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/hooks/usePrefersReducedMotion.ts b/src/renderer/src/hooks/usePrefersReducedMotion.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..56195a77587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/hooks/usePrefersReducedMotion.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
+
+const REDUCED_MOTION_QUERY = '(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)'
+
+function readPrefersReducedMotion(): boolean {
+  if (typeof window === 'undefined' || typeof window.matchMedia !== 'function') {
+    return false
+  }
+  return window.matchMedia(REDUCED_MOTION_QUERY).matches
+}
+
+export function usePrefersReducedMotion(): boolean {
+  const [prefersReducedMotion, setPrefersReducedMotion] = useState(readPrefersReducedMotion)
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || typeof window.matchMedia !== 'function') {
+      return
+    }
+    const media = window.matchMedia(REDUCED_MOTION_QUERY)
+    setPrefersReducedMotion(media.matches)
+    const onChange = (event: MediaQueryListEvent): void => {
+      setPrefersReducedMotion(event.matches)
+    }
+    media.addEventListener('change', onChange)
+    return () => media.removeEventListener('change', onChange)
+  }, [])
+
+  return prefersReducedMotion
+}