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Catch the stress you don't notice.

Catch the slouch before it becomes a sore neck

I've spent 21 years hunched over laptops. Poxture checks how you sit through your Mac's camera. When you've been leaning in, looking down or propping your chin, a soft glow at the top of the screen tells you, and a card shows how to fix it. Camera images never leave your Mac.

Download for Mac

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with a built-in camera, and macOS 15 or later.

See the habits it fixes

  • Camera images never leave your Mac
  • Shows you how to fix it
  • Pauses for calls when you want

Made by Shyam Verma

Lean in, get a nudge, sit back.

Fix the habit while it's happening.

These are the bad postures that strain your neck, shoulders and back. Poxture nudges you when it sees the first five. The others say Not checked yet.

  1. Nudges you

    Notice when you lean in

    Your face creeps toward the display while you read, write or code. A soft glow tells you, and the card shows how to sit back. Over a day this loads your neck and upper back.

  2. Nudges you

    Catch the hand at your chin

    Chin on your palm or fingers in your beard, the pose you slip into when you're thinking hard. You find out while it's happening. Resting your head on a hand strains your neck and one shoulder.

  3. Nudges you

    Break the head-down habit

    Looking down at a laptop all day is the habit people call tech neck. A glance at your keyboard doesn't count; staying there does. It strains your neck and the top of your upper back.

  4. Nudges you · Beta

    Stop the late-day slump

    Late in the day you sink lower in your chair and closer to the screen at the same time. Poxture sees both and tells you. Slumping loads your lower back and makes your neck work to hold your head up.

  5. Nudges you · Beta

    Move before you stiffen

    Deep in work, an hour goes by without a single change of position. Even a good posture gets stiff when it never changes, and your neck, shoulders and lower back feel it first.

  6. Not checked yet

    Notice your chin sliding forward

    Your head drifts out in front of your shoulders while you focus. Your neck and upper back work harder to hold it up.

  7. Not checked yet

    Stop perching on the edge of the chair

    You sit on the front of the seat and lean toward the screen. Your back has no support, so your lower back and neck do the work.

  8. Not checked yet

    Raise a screen that sits too low

    A low screen pulls your eyes and head down all day. That can leave your neck and shoulders sore.

  9. Not checked yet

    Lower a screen that sits too high

    You tip your chin up to see it. The back of your neck stays squeezed and your shoulders tense.

  10. Not checked yet

    Face the screen you use most

    A monitor off to one side keeps your neck twisted for hours. One side of your neck and shoulders ends up sore.

  11. Not checked yet

    Sit up when the laptop is in bed

    Propped against the headboard, you look down at the screen. Your neck bends forward and your lower back has little support.

  12. Not checked yet

    Get off your stomach

    Lying on your elbows bends your neck back to see the screen and arches your lower back. Your elbows and shoulders take the load too.

  13. Not checked yet

    Lift the laptop off the mattress

    A screen that low has you hunching over it. That rounds your upper back and bends your neck forward.

  14. Not checked yet

    Sit up on the sofa

    Sinking into soft cushions rounds your lower back, and the low screen bends your neck too.

  15. Not checked yet

    Don't hunch over the coffee table

    A low table pulls your head and shoulders down toward the screen. Your neck and upper back strain.

  16. Not checked yet

    Raise a standing desk that is too low

    Standing doesn't help if you still look down. Your neck and shoulders carry your head out in front of you.

  17. Not checked yet

    Stand tall, don't lean on the desk

    Resting on your arms while you read or type shifts your weight forward. Your lower back and shoulders take it.

Without giving up your privacy.

An app that uses your camera all day has to get this right.

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Checked on your Mac

Every check happens on your Mac, in the moment. Camera images never leave your Mac.

Seen, then gone

Your Mac turns each image into a few points: where your head, shoulders and hands are. The image is dropped at once, and Poxture judges only those points against how you usually sit. No picture or video of you is ever saved.

Built for your workday.

The small things that make it easy to leave on from login to log-off.

See how it works

Work on your big monitor

Plug in a monitor and keep working there. Poxture watches through your Mac's own camera, so keep the lid open and sit where it can see you. The nudge shows on whichever screen you're using.

Never covers your work

In a full-screen app the nudge becomes a small figure in the corner, clear of what you're doing.

Your pace

Calm, Normal or Strict, and a check from every 15 seconds to every 5 minutes.

Your day at a glance

How much of today you sat in the clear, your top habit and your last 7 days.

One chime, if you want it.

By default, if the glow is still there after 30 seconds, it chimes once. You can change the wait or turn the chime off.

Quiet when you need it

Pause for an hour, set your work hours, or let it step aside during calls if you choose. It stops when your Mac locks or sleeps. The camera is off whenever Poxture isn't watching.

Tuned to how you sit

Calibrate once and Poxture learns your own range. New chair or desk? Do it again.

Misread you?

Click Wrong and the nudge goes. Twice in a day and Poxture offers to recalibrate.

Know where things stand at a glance

Opens at login and lives in the menu bar, out of the Dock. One small figure shows what Poxture is doing.

Shyam Verma in a black shirt, smiling at the camera
21years on a laptop

Why Poxture exists

Catch it early, not after it hurts.

I've worked on laptops for 21 years. More than once, the small habits caught up with me: a stiff neck, tight shoulders, a jaw I didn't know I was holding. Each time I only noticed when it already hurt, and by then fixing it meant big changes to how I worked and lived.

It's easier to catch a habit while it's small than to undo it years later. Poxture is the gentle nudge I wish I'd had all along.

Shyam Verma, founder

Four things you can do today

From the habit guides. They work with or without Poxture.

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  1. Arm's length

    Sit back until the screen is about arm's length away.

  2. Bigger text, not closer eyes

    Press ⌘ + a few times. If you lean in to read, the text is too small.

  3. Let the chair hold you

    Slide your hips to the back of the seat so the backrest supports you.

  4. Look far away

    Every 20 minutes or so, look at something across the room for about 20 seconds.

You don't want a camera watching you all day. Neither would we.

Poxture reads each camera image on your Mac the moment it arrives, then drops it. No camera image or video is ever sent anywhere.

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  • Worry:A camera on me all day.

    What happens:The camera is off whenever Poxture isn't watching: when you pause, outside your work hours, during calls if you choose, and when the Mac is locked.

  • Worry:It's recording me.

    What happens:It isn't. Each image is read the moment it arrives and dropped right away. No picture or video is ever saved.

  • Worry:Another account to make.

    What happens:No account. Your key comes by email and the app runs on your Mac.

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Catch the stress you don't notice.

Try it on your own workday first: 14 days, every feature.

Download for Mac

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with a built-in camera, and macOS 15 or later.