# Everything Poxture App does for you > Poxture App checks for eight habits, all on by default, and you can switch any of them off. When you stay in one, such as slouching, a soft glow nudges you, a card shows how to fix it, and the glow turns green once you have. The camera is off when you pause, outside your work hours, during calls if you choose, and while your Mac is locked. No pictures, ever. Canonical: https://poxture.com/features It notices the habits you slip into, tells you gently, and stays out of the way the rest of the time. The nudge Habits it catches Quiet times Your pace Your week Set up once Live view Private Made for your Mac The nudge ## Hard to miss. Easy to ignore. The nudge takes the shape that fits your screen, and stays at the top, by the menu bar. ### Around the notch A thin orange line glides along the notch's edge. ### Under the menu bar On a screen with no notch, the same line, straight. ### In full screen A small figure pulses in the top-right corner. A typical few minutes ## It waits for a habit to hold. Poxture App checks once a minute. When something looks off, it checks every few seconds, and a habit like looking down or slouching has to hold for about half a minute, by default, before you see anything. Good check Habit found Next check ### A card shows the fix A card opens under the line with what's off and how to fix it. ### A chime if you miss it If the nudge is still there after 30 seconds, it chimes once. You can turn the chime off. ### Gone when you are fine It goes away a few seconds after you sit right. Got it wrong? Click Wrong nudge? and say why. What it checks ## The habits behind the tension. Every check is on by default, and each one is a switch in the app you can turn off. On by default ### Too close to the screen Much closer to your laptop's screen than when you sit well. [What helps when you sit too close ›](https://poxture.com/guides/too-close) On by default ### Looking down Your head tipped down about 12° past your good posture. [What helps when you look down at the screen ›](https://poxture.com/guides/head-down) On by default ### Hand on face Resting your chin or jaw on your hand. [What helps with a hand on your face ›](https://poxture.com/guides/hand-at-chin) On by default ### Slouching Sinking lower in your chair than your good posture. [What helps when you slouch ›](https://poxture.com/guides/slump) On by default ### Sitting still too long At your desk for 40 minutes, by default, without standing up or stepping away. [What helps when you sit still too long ›](https://poxture.com/guides/not-moving) On by default ### Hunched over Rounding your back as you get closer to your laptop's screen. [What helps when you hunch over ›](https://poxture.com/hunched-over-computer) On by default ### Leaning to one side Your body tipped to one side, onto one hip or armrest. [What helps when you lean to one side ›](https://poxture.com/leaning-to-one-side) On by default ### Not working from a proper desk setup On the sofa or in bed with your laptop for 10 minutes, by default. [Laptop posture on the sofa or in bed ›](https://poxture.com/laptop-posture-tips) Out of your way ## Quiet when it should be. On a call (if you choose) When another app is using your mic or camera. After hours Outside your work hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 19:00, by default. Locked or asleep Nothing is checked. Away When you step away from your desk. Paused For 30 minutes, an hour or until tomorrow. The camera turns off. The camera is off whenever Poxture App isn't checking your posture: when you pause, outside your work hours, during calls if you choose, and when the Mac is locked. While Poxture App is checking, the camera comes on for a moment at each check. It stays on while your posture looks off and Poxture App waits to be sure. It also stays on while a nudge's card is open: the panel under the glow that shows how to fix your posture. Once the card closes, the camera goes back to a moment at each check, even while the orange glow still shows. When a check finds your posture fixed, the camera stays on a few seconds to make sure, and it may stay on until the next check. In Settings you can choose to keep it on while Poxture App is checking. ## Your pace and alerts Some days you want a gentle reminder and some days a stricter coach, so you choose how patient Poxture App is. ### Calm, Normal or Strict Choose how long a habit like looking down or slouching has to last before you hear about it: about 1 minute, 30 seconds or 20 seconds. Normal is the default. Some habits, like sitting too close, have their own timing. ### A check once a minute Poxture App checks your posture once a minute, all day. Nothing to set. ### A sound if you want one If a nudge stays on, one soft chime plays and then it goes quiet. Pick any Mac sound, Glass by default. ### The camera, only for a moment By default the camera light comes on for a moment at each check, then goes out. If you'd rather it stayed on, choose Always on. ## Today and your week At the end of a long day, see how much of it you spent sitting well, with no target and no score to beat. ### Your day as a ring The ring shows how much of today you sat well, counted only while Poxture App was checking. ### Your top habit It shows the habit that came up most today, so you know what to work on tomorrow. ### The last 7 days Each day gets a bar, so a good week, or a bad one, is easy to spot. ## Set up once Spend a few minutes on day one and touch each screen once, then just work. ### One touch per screen Your laptop and your monitor each get their own distance, so leaning in is judged at the screen you're using. ### New chair or desk? Touch a screen again, or run setup again from Your desk. ## Live view Open Live view to get a simple stick figure that moves with you and reads out each habit in plain words, never a camera picture. ### Check your camera angle At a glance, see whether your whole head and shoulders are in view before you start work. ### Only while it's open Live view keeps the camera on while its pane is open. Close it and, by default, the camera rests until the next check. Privacy ## No pictures, ever. Your camera images never leave your Mac. ### Kept on your Mac - Your good posture for each screen - Your settings - Each check's result, as numbers, for 60 days ### Never kept - Pictures of you - Video - Sound More detail is on the [privacy page](https://poxture.com/privacy/app). In the menu bar ## What the icon is telling you. The figure in your menu bar shows what Poxture App is doing right now. Its head is orange while the camera is on, and for as long as a nudge's glow shows, even after the nudge's card has closed and the camera has gone back to the checks. An orange arc over the head means a nudge is on screen, and a green one means you just fixed it. A dimmed figure means Poxture App isn't checking: pause bars for a pause or a call, a moon for off hours or a used free hour, and a red badge when it needs you. - Checking Poxture App is checking your posture. Nothing to do, unless the line asks for something, such as Good posture not set here: then click it. - Nudging A habit has held, so a nudge is on screen. Hover it to see what's wrong and how to fix it. - Fixed You fixed the habit the nudge named. The figure stays green for 3 seconds, then goes back to checking. - Checking The camera can't get a clear view, for example in a dark room. The menu still says Checking. Open Live view from the menu to see what's in the way. - Paused You paused Poxture App. Choose Resume in the menu to start again. - Paused for a call You paused Poxture App until this call ends. It starts again by itself when the call is over. - Paused for a call Another app is using your mic, and Pause during calls is on. Poxture App starts again when the call ends. - Paused · another app is using the camera Another app is using your camera, and Pause during calls is on. Poxture App starts again when that app is done. - Off hours It's outside your work hours, so Poxture App rests and the camera stays off. To keep going, choose Check until midnight in the menu. - Away No one is at the desk, so nudges stay quiet. By default, the camera comes on for a moment once a minute, to notice when you're back. The figure stays the checking one. - Locked Your Mac is locked or asleep. Nothing is checked. - Setting up Setup isn't finished yet. Choose Finish setup… in the menu to carry on. - Needs you · All habits are off Every habit is switched off, so Poxture App isn't checking. Choose Turn one on in Checks… in the menu. - Needs you · Camera access is off Poxture App isn't allowed to use the camera. Choose Open System Settings… in the menu to turn it on. - Needs you · The camera isn't working The camera stopped or can't be found. Check that it's connected, then open Live view from the menu. - Free hour used Today's free hour is used up, so Poxture App stopped checking until tomorrow. Choose Enter activation key… in the menu to keep going. - Needs you · Activation key not active Your activation key isn't active on this Mac, for example after a refund, so Poxture App stopped checking. Choose Activation key not active… in the menu to see what to do. - Needs you · Set up your good posture Poxture App needs your good posture once, after you install it or after an update. Click the line in the menu to set it. - Needs you · Laptop moved, redo good posture Poxture App thinks your laptop moved. Click the line in the menu to redo your good posture here. - Needs you · Camera can't see you The camera can't see your face. Open the laptop if its lid is closed, or tilt the screen until your face is in view. How it works ## Small habits build the stress you don't notice. You feel the stiff neck at four in the afternoon, not the hour of leaning in that caused it. Poxture App catches those small habits while they're happening, with a nudge so light you can ignore it, so you can sit back before they turn into aches. You are the baseline You show it your good posture once for each screen, and it compares you with that, not a textbook posture. Checked, then gone Each frame is read in memory and dropped. No pictures, ever. Patterns, not moments A glance down never counts. Only a habit that holds gets a nudge. A nudge, not an alarm A thin line at the top of your screen, and a small card with the fix. Quiet when it should be Silent in calls if you choose, after hours and when you step away. Most posture reminders ping you on a timer, slouching or not. Here's why Poxture App is [a reminder that checks your posture](https://poxture.com/posture-reminder-app) instead. Why Poxture App 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 App is the gentle nudge I wish I'd had all along. Shyam Verma, founder Our commitment: Poxture App stays gentle, private and quiet. It nudges, never nags, and no picture of you ever leaves your Mac. Every new check we add keeps those promises. ## Catch the stress you don't notice. Try it on your own workday: an hour a day is free for good, and every feature works all day for your first 14 days. Needs an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with a built-in camera or an external webcam, and macOS 15 or later. Version 0.11.6 · released 9 November 2026 Poxture App is a Mac app. Open poxture.com on your Mac to download. Share ## Related - [What helps when you sit too close ›](https://poxture.com/guides/too-close) - [What helps when you look down at the screen ›](https://poxture.com/guides/head-down) - [What helps with a hand on your face ›](https://poxture.com/guides/hand-at-chin) - [What helps when you slouch ›](https://poxture.com/guides/slump) - [What helps when you sit still too long ›](https://poxture.com/guides/not-moving) - [What helps when you hunch over ›](https://poxture.com/hunched-over-computer) - [What helps when you lean to one side ›](https://poxture.com/leaning-to-one-side) - [Laptop posture on the sofa or in bed ›](https://poxture.com/laptop-posture-tips) - [privacy page](https://poxture.com/privacy/app) - [a reminder that checks your posture](https://poxture.com/posture-reminder-app)