A menubar app for macOS
Your screen locks. You squat. It unlocks.
For everyone who swats away break reminders: Unsit tracks how long you've been sitting, and when it's been too long, it locks your screen until its camera counts ten real squats. Thirty seconds. All on-device. No excuses left.
You've tried reminders
Reminders don't work on you. You already know this.
It's not a discipline problem. At minute 174 of deep work, the part of your brain that clicks "dismiss" is fully in charge. You don't need a better reminder — you need a forcing function that doesn't negotiate.
How it works
Three steps. You only do one of them.
Unsit watches the clock
A sitting timer lives in your menubar. It detects real breaks — walking away resets it, wiggling your mouse doesn't. Credit only for actual rest.
Sit too long, screen locks
Past your limit, a full-screen overlay takes over. There's an escape hatch (hold Esc) — it's just deliberately slower than squatting.
Ten squats buy it back
Apple Vision tracks your knee angle and counts full reps — no half-squats. Screen unlocks, blood moves, back stops plotting against you.
Lives in your menubar
Most of the day, it's just a calm timer.
The lock is the last resort. Until then, Unsit is a glanceable sitting timer and a running tally of your movement — a gentle nudge long before it ever takes your screen.
About the camera
The camera never phones home.
Fair question — an app that watches you squat should explain itself.
Who this is for
Built for people who need the lock, not the nudge.
ADHD & body-doubling brains
External accountability works — that's why body doubling is everywhere. Unsit is the version that doesn't require scheduling a human. The computer is the accountability partner.
Remote workers
Your commute is twelve steps and your meetings are chairs all the way down. Unsit puts involuntary movement back into a day that has none by default.
Anyone whose back has opinions
Most desk workers report neck or lower-back pain. The fix isn't one heroic gym session — it's breaking up the sitting, every day, whether you feel like it or not.
Pricing
Pay once. Own it. Squat forever.
- Sitting timer in your menubar
- Break nudges (the dismissible kind)
- Daily sitting stats
- Everything in Free
- Screen lock enforcement — the part that actually works
- Camera-verified squats, counted on-device
- Streaks & session history
- All future Hard Mode features
Reserving costs nothing today — you're locking the launch price. If we don't ship, you've spent one email address.
Questions
The things you're wondering.
Can't I just force-quit it?
You can — it's your Mac, not a jail. There's even a built-in escape hatch (hold Esc). The design principle is different: Unsit makes three squats the path of least resistance. Quitting the app takes longer and feels worse. Choosing to keep the lock on is the whole feature — same reason people pay a personal trainer to be waiting at the gym.
What if I'm on a call when it triggers?
Unsit counts real rest — stepping away for coffee resets your timer without a single squat, so most people never get locked mid-meeting. Calendar awareness is on the roadmap; we'd rather ship it right than promise it now.
Is video of me squatting stored or sent anywhere?
No. Pose detection runs on-device with Apple Vision. Frames are analyzed for joint angles and immediately discarded — no video exists to store or send. It works with your network off.
Is it a subscription?
No. Hard Mode is a one-time purchase — $19 early-bird, $29 after launch. The free tier is free forever. We think an app that nags you to move shouldn't also nag your credit card.
Which Macs does it run on?
Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) running macOS 14+, using the built-in camera or any webcam.
Do a few squats actually matter?
The evidence points at breaking up sitting as the thing that helps — frequent short movement beats one workout bolted onto an otherwise sedentary day. Ten squats every hour won't replace your gym; they will make sure your day has movement in it at all.
Your chair will still be there in thirty seconds.
Reserve Hard Mode at the $19 launch price, or grab the free version. Either way, your back wins.