AlignKit vs Poxture App
Before AlignKit checks your posture, it asks for a subscription: $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year. For that you get a daily posture score, and alerts as a sound or a blur over your screen. Poxture App is free for an hour every day, for good, and you pay once if you want it on all day. Every fact about AlignKit below comes from AlignKit's website or its Mac App Store listing.
By Shyam Verma, maker of Poxture App · Checked 2 November 2026
Camera or AirPods app · Mac
AlignKit
- Notices with
- Your camera or AirPods
- Nudge
- A sound, a screen blur or another style
- Works
- At your Mac
- Price
- Subscription: $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year
Mac app · ours
Poxture App
- Notices with
- Your Mac's camera
- Nudge
- A glow and a how-to card
- Works
- At your Mac
- Price
- Free an hour a day, $19 once for all day
The short version: want a screen blur as your alert, and a daily posture score? AlignKit. Want a free hour every day and to pay once? Poxture App.
Download Poxture App for MacChoose AlignKit if
- You want a screen blur as your alert.
- You wear AirPods and want them to track your posture.
- You like a posture score and slouch time for each day.
- Your Mac runs macOS 13 or 14. Poxture App needs macOS 15 or later.
Choose Poxture App if
- You want to use it free, an hour every day, before you decide to pay.
- You'd rather pay once than $39.99 every year.
- You want nudges for looking down, a hand on your face and leaning to one side, each with a card on how to fix it.
What AlignKit is
AlignKit is a Mac app on the Mac App Store, made and sold by Timofei Dadeev, for macOS 13 or later. Its listing says it tracks "your posture in real time using your camera or AirPods". To remind you, you can "Choose sound alerts, screen blur, and other alert styles". The habit it names is slouching.1
Scores and trends
AlignKit shows your posture score, total session time, how long you slouched and your daily tracking in one dashboard, and lets you review weekly trends.1
Poxture App's Today view shows how many of today's nudges you fixed, what to work on next and your nudges each day this week. After two weeks it also shows how that compares with your first week.
What it costs
The listing shows "Free" with in-app purchases, but says the app "requires a subscription to activate the application's features". On 2 November 2026 the plans were $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year, renewing until you cancel. Twelve months on the monthly plan comes to $155.88. Neither page states a free trial.1
Poxture App works without paying: the first hour of each day is free for good, and for your first 14 days every feature works all day. To keep it on all day, you pay $19 once. There is no subscription and no account, and you get a full refund within 14 days, no questions.
Privacy
AlignKit's listing says "Posture tracking runs locally on your Mac, and your posture data never leaves your device." Its privacy policy says camera video and posture data "are not intended to be uploaded to our servers as part of the core App functionality", and that it may use third-party services for its paywall and subscriptions. Its App Store privacy label lists purchase history, not linked to you, used for analytics and app functionality.1,2
Poxture App's camera images never leave your Mac, and it never saves or shows a camera picture. Poxture App sends usage counts with a random install number and, once a day, rounded posture scores with no install number, and supporters can turn both off in Settings. The privacy page lists all of it.
How Poxture App is different
Poxture App needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 15 or later, and works with your Mac's camera or an external webcam, not AirPods. It checks eight habits: too close to the screen, looking down, hand on face, slouching, sitting still too long, hunched over, leaning to one side and not working from a proper desk setup. When you have held a habit like looking down or slouching for about 30 seconds, by default, the glow appears and a card shows the fix. When you sit right, the glow turns green.
Side by side
| AlignKit | Poxture App | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Mac with macOS 13 or later | Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 15 or later |
| How it notices | Your camera or AirPods | Your Mac's camera or an external webcam, once a minute |
| How it nudges | A sound, a screen blur or another alert style | A soft glow at the top of the screen and a card that shows how to fix it |
| What it names | Slouching | Eight habits, from looking down to a hand on your face |
| History | Posture score, slouch time, weekly trends | Today's fixed nudges and your nudges each day this week |
| Free use | None stated: a subscription activates the features | 1 hour a day, free for good; all day for your first 14 days |
| Price | $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year | $19 once |
Questions
What's an AlignKit alternative without a subscription?
Poxture App. Its first hour each day is free for good, and $19 once keeps it on all day. It nudges with a soft glow and a card on how to fix the habit, so you keep working, and it checks looking down, a hand on your face and leaning to one side.
Is AlignKit the app that used to be called PurePose?
Yes. Version 1.0.1, released on 28 October 2026, gave the same Mac App Store app its new name, AlignKit.
Can I use AlignKit for free?
Its listing says the app "requires a subscription to activate the application's features": $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year on 2 November 2026.
Does Poxture App blur my screen?
No. Poxture App shows a soft glow at the top of the screen and a card on how to fix the habit. You keep working while you fix it.
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Sources, read 2 November 2026
- AlignKit's website (Mac App Store listing), checked 2026-11-02
- AlignKit's website (privacy policy), checked 2026-11-02