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 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
It learns how you sit and compares you with your own normal, not a textbook posture.
Looks, then forgets
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. No pop-ups, no streaks, no scores.
Quiet when it should be
Silent in calls if you choose, after hours and when you step away.
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
Our commitment: Poxture 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.
A typical few minutes
It waits for a habit to hold.
By default Poxture checks once a minute. A habit has to show up three checks in a row, about three minutes, before you see anything.
Hover for the fix
Hover the nudge to see what's off and how to fix it, in one line.
A chime if you miss it
If the nudge is still there after 30 seconds, by default it chimes once.
Gone when you are fine
It goes away at the next good check, and within three checks once the habit stops. Got it wrong? Click Wrong.
What it watches
The habits behind the tension.
All five checks are on by default. Each one is a switch in the app you can turn off, and new checks join this list as they are ready.
Leaning in
Closer to the screen than you usually sit.
Head down
Your head tipped 25° past your normal, by default.
Hand at chin
Resting your chin or jaw on your hand.
Slump
Lower and closer to the screen at the same time.
Not moving
Sitting in the same position for 40 minutes, by default.
The nudge
Hard to miss. Easy to ignore.
The nudge takes the shape that fits your screen, and never covers what you're working on.
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.
Out of your way
Quiet when it should be.
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. While Poxture is watching, the camera comes on for a moment at each check and while a nudge is showing. While you're away it stays off, apart from a quick look every 5 minutes.
Privacy
No pictures, ever.
Your camera images never leave your Mac.
Kept on your Mac
- Your usual sitting position
- 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.