DeskamiA small companion on your desk

It slumps when you slump.

A small paper character sits at the corner of your screen and mirrors how you are sitting. Slump and it slumps with you, slowly. Straighten up and it recovers in about two seconds.

It lives in the menu bar, and the character stands in a corner of your screen.

For macOS. Coming to the Mac App Store. Free, with a one-time Deskami Plus if you want it. No account, no sign-in.

Tell me when it ships

One email when it reaches the Mac App Store, nothing else.

  1. While you sit like this, I stay quiet.
  2. Your shoulders dropped. I slump with you, slowly.
  3. You straightened up. I recover right away.
  4. If it lasts, I send one notification. Then I stay quiet about it for a while.

Three characters, seven states

Pick the one you can stand looking at for eight hours. Each shows the same seven states — the colour carries how urgent it is, and none of them is red. Leaf and Stone come with the app; Furry is part of Deskami Plus.

Leaf

upright
slumped
too close
not blinking
looking away
away from the desk
tracking off

Furry

upright
slumped
too close
not blinking
looking away
away from the desk
tracking off

Stone

upright
slumped
too close
not blinking
looking away
away from the desk
tracking off

How it behaves

It complains late

The character has to watch you sit below your reference for a while — three minutes in the default setting — before it slumps. A moment of leaning over your desk is not worth a word.

It forgives fast

A few seconds of sitting up and it recovers. That imbalance is the whole design: it is what makes cause and effect something you feel rather than something you are told.

It compares you with you

There is no correct posture inside the app. It takes one five-second reference of how you normally sit, and everything after that is measured against it. No scores, no streaks, no leaderboards.

It looks at four things

Posture, screen distance, blinking and looking away. Each has its own switch under Settings › Warnings, so each can be switched off on its own. A switched-off signal is still measured and still appears on the day summary; it just stops warning you.

What it saw today

One summary at the end of the day. It describes; it does not grade. Every number says how it was measured, and where nothing was measured it says that instead of filling the gap with a zero.

The top of the day summary: three numbers — at the desk, hands-on, breaks — and a note that the camera was off for 30 minutes.
The top of the card: time at the desk, hands-on time and breaks. Under them, the line that says the camera was off for 30 minutes and that nothing was measured then — not measured, not zero.
The posture band of the day summary: a strip along the hours of the day in green and orange, with the total at the end of its label.
One band, one signal. Hours run along the bottom; orange where posture needed attention, green where it was fine, low grey where it could not be measured.
The Highlights section of the day summary: a few short sentences about the day.
The sentences the app writes about the day. They say what happened and when; nothing is graded.
The Apps table of the day summary: app names with time, posture slipped and blinks a minute.
Per app: time in front, how posture did and how often you blinked while it was open. The app in front is recorded by name, never by its window titles. For earlier days, this table is part of Deskami Plus.
The week view: seven columns, one per day, with posture bands and the week's totals.
Seven days side by side. Each day is compared with your own earlier days, never with anyone else.
The panel that opens when you move the pointer over the character: the heading You're sitting slumped for 3 minutes, a line about this sitting, and the Quiet this for now button.
The panel that opens when you hover over the character: what it is watching right now, and a button that quiets that warning for two hours while measuring continues.
The day summary: bands for posture, screen distance, blinking, looking away and focus, laid out along the hours of the day.
The day summary. Hours run along the bottom; each band is one signal.

Swipe sideways to see the whole day.

What is free, and what Deskami Plus adds

Everything Deskami measures and says about this week and last week is free, and stays free. Deskami Plus is a single one-time purchase through the App Store; no subscription, no account. It adds a longer history, the apps breakdown beyond today, export and Furry.

Everything Deskami measures and says about this week and last week is free, and stays free: every signal, every warning, the day summaries, the week view, today's apps breakdown, Leaf and Stone.

Deskami Plus adds

  • History older than two weeks: every day and week you recorded.
  • A month view. Days that were not measured stay empty.
  • Export: the summary as PDF, and the data as CSV and JSON for a day, a week, a month or everything. Column names are fixed and documented. Column dictionary
  • The apps breakdown of earlier days, and of the week and the month: time per app, and how posture and blinking did while it was in front.
  • Furry.

The purchase runs through the App Store; Deskami still has no permission to reach the internet. One purchase counts on every Mac signed in with the same Apple Account, and each Mac keeps its own history. Nothing in the free part depends on it, and the character will never bring it up.

The month view for September 2026: a calendar with the time at the desk on each day, two days left empty, and a table of the month's totals week by week.
The month view, part of Deskami Plus. Each day shows its time at the desk; below it, the rows of the week view add up week by week and for the whole month. Days that were not measured stay empty.

Before you install

  • macOS 26 or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon.
  • A camera that sees your face and your shoulders: the built-in one with the lid open at about chest height, or an external webcam.
  • During a call or screen sharing it hides the character and keeps measuring; sound and notifications stay quiet meanwhile.
  • Free, with a one-time Deskami Plus if you want it. No account, no sign-in.

It cannot send anything anywhere

This is not a promise about intentions. It is a property of the application, and you can check it yourself.

  • The app has no networking code and no network permission. There is no server to send anything to.
  • Each camera frame is measured in memory and then discarded. No video or still image is ever written to disk.
  • The microphone is never opened. It has no microphone permission.
  • Window titles, page addresses and what you type are never read.

Read the whole privacy page