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Your Private Desk Coach

Come on, stand up.
Squat time!

Gets you up on time, counts with you, keeps the record — the minimum daily health, handled. No video ever leaves your computer.

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A day in your head

An ordinary workday,
in nine sticky notes.
9:12 AM

Sat down. Screens on. Long day ahead.

10:40 AM

Video call. Typing. Mouse, back and forth.

12:30 PM

Lunch, finally.

1:15 PM

Back in the chair. Calls. Typing. Mouse.

3:00 PM

Shoulders ache. Lower back’s complaining.

4:10 PM

I really should exercise… but what? When?

5:50 PM

Nearly done. Too tired now anyway.

6:30 PM

Someone said squats are supposed to help… whatever, I’ll think about it tomorrow.

In bed

This can’t go on. I really have to do something… what do I do?

Who it’s for

Whether you train or not,
this is for you.

You don’t train yet

Your good start.

Ten counted squats at your desk — no gym, no plan. Every set is a small win you can feel; the wins become a habit, and health follows.

You already train

Keep moving through the desk hours.

A workout doesn’t undo nine hours in the chair. DeskSquat keeps you moving through the hours work owns — without breaking focus.

Inside the app

Sitting, posture, squats, breaks, screen time — kept automatically.

Sitting · 38m
limit 45m
9:0011:00 13:0015:0017:00
Sat4h 36m
Squat84
Break1h 12m

Your day, at a glance. Sitting blocks, breaks and squat marks on one timeline — the home screen keeps score.

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38m
next now
84/100
Current sit38m
Squats84 / 100
Next setnow
Open

Lives in the notch. Sitting time and squat progress hug the camera notch. Hover to expand.

Standing
VideoAvatar
Avatar shows only the pose skeleton — no real pixels.

Avatar mode. Same coaching, pose-only view — squats are read from your shoulder line.

DeskSquat
SquatsApps
‹July 2026›
Squats · per dayavg 50
15W
80T
4F
97S
85S
70M
84T

Squats, day by day. Bars, rings and a monthly calendar track the 100-a-day habit.

DeskSquat
SquatsApps
Daily average
5h 20m
Most Used
Figma
1h 47m
Chrome
1h 11m
Slack
38m

Screen time, app by app. Where your desk hours go — sampled locally while you sit.

Squats
Scheduled squatsAuto squat sets spread across your workday
Work hoursSessions are spread inside this window
−9:00+ – −17:00+
Daily goalTotal squats per day
−100 reps+
Display
Notch HUDLive stats in a dynamic island around the camera notch

Make it yours. Work hours, daily goal, reps per set, notch HUD, camera preview — all tunable, none required.

In a meeting
Zoom is in frontNudges & squat sets on hold — resuming after the call
Don’t disturb in meetingsZoom · Teams · Webex · FaceTime

Never mid-meeting. While a call app is in front, nudges and squat sets hold — and fire the moment it ends.

Why squats?

10 squats every 45 minutes beat a single 30-minute walk for blood-sugar control.
Randomized crossover trial — Gao et al., Scand J Med Sci Sports (2024)
DeskSquat's defaults are the studied protocol — a nudge at 45 minutes, squats in sets of 10.

More: Gao 2024 · J Appl Physiol 2021 · J Appl Physiol 2022 — a coaching tool, not medical advice.

Not only squats

Now, breathe.

A deadline shortens your breath long before it stiffens your legs. Three times a day DeskSquat stops the work for three minutes — in for four, out for six.

4 / 18 Breathe inBreathe out 2:25

Resonance breathing at ~6 breaths a minute is the pace with the largest HRV and baroreflex response (Lin 2014 · Steffen 2017); the longer exhale follows the cyclic-sighing arm of Balban 2023 — a coaching tool, not medical advice.

New — the posture coach

Sit up straight.Your posture is my job now.

The problem was never one slouch. It's the hours you spend folded without noticing. Now I notice for you. The baseline is the posture you showed me, and I only speak up when you drift from it.

Sitting tall
Slouching
Guide
Green is the posture you showed me; red is the slump you asked me to watch for. White is you, right now — so you never have to guess your way back.

Privacy is the whole point

The camera never leaves your computer.

Model bundled inside the app Your camera feed is never sent Your data: one local JSON file

Scenes from a desk job

“Four hours vanish when I’m deep in a debug.”
👩‍💻Developer
“Shoulders like stone in front of Figma.”
🧑‍🎨Designer
“Even the commute is gone — fifty steps a day.”
🏠Remote worker
“The body always loses to a deadline.”
📚Grad student · writer
“When the market opens, even the bathroom waits.”
📈Finance
“Four hours vanish when I’m deep in a debug.”
👩‍💻Developer
“Shoulders like stone in front of Figma.”
🧑‍🎨Designer
“Even the commute is gone — fifty steps a day.”
🏠Remote worker
“The body always loses to a deadline.”
📚Grad student · writer
“When the market opens, even the bathroom waits.”
📈Finance

Pricing

Pay once. Own it.

Product Hunt launch — 30% off every plan with code PRODUCTHUNT30, through Sep 30.

Personal
€19€13.30€19 one-time

Code PRODUCTHUNT30 — applied for you at checkout.

Your own desk coach, forever.
No account, no subscription.

  • All features, all future updates
  • License for 1 device
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
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Together Couples & families
€14.50€10.15€14.50 per device

Code PRODUCTHUNT30 — applied for you at checkout.

One key for the household — each device takes its own slot.

  • Everything in Personal
  • 2–5 devices — save 24%
  • Pick the quantity at checkout
Buy 2 devices — €20.30€29
Team
5+ people

Squat breaks as a company perk — one-time licenses, the simplest line in the wellness budget.

  • Volume pricing
  • One invoice for the whole team
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🎁 Gifting? Any plan works — enter the recipient's email at checkout and the license lands in their inbox, not yours.

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Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

The camera light is on all day — is it watching me?

No one is watching. Your computer reads your shoulder position to tell sitting from standing, and each frame is discarded on the spot — video is never stored and never sent anywhere. The only network the app ever touches is checking for updates and validating your license — your camera feed is never sent. Verify with Little Snitch or lsof.

Will an all-day camera app drain my battery?

Detection runs at a deliberately low ~5 fps. It's built to sit in your menu bar all day.

Will it interrupt my meetings?

No. While your microphone is live in a call — any app, browser calls included — or your screen is being shared, DeskSquat holds its nudges and squat sets and resumes afterwards. It only reads the on-device “mic in use” and “screen is shared” states (the same signals as the menu-bar indicators), never any audio or pixels, and you can turn it off in Settings.

Who decides what counts as slouching?

You do. During setup you show the coach two postures — how you sit tall, and the slump you want warning about — and every reading after that is scored between those two, for your body, your chair, your camera angle. The nudge is deliberately patient: the dot changes color right away, but the “Sit tall” notification waits until you’ve held the slouch for the interval you set, and repeats at that interval until you straighten up. Never during a call. Recalibrate, retime or switch it off in Settings → Posture.

How does the license work?

Your key arrives by email right after checkout. Paste it into the app — a one-time online check activates it for your machine, and from then on verification runs entirely offline. No account, no subscription. A Personal license covers one machine; a Together license covers 2–5 devices — everyone pastes the same key and each device takes its own slot. Switching machines is one click (Settings → License → Deactivate, or just activate on the new machine and confirm the move).

What does “beta” mean for the Windows version?

Same app, same features — it just hasn't been through as many real desks as the Mac build, so expect the occasional rough edge and tell us about it. Two things to know: the installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen shows a blue “Windows protected your PC” screen — click More info → Run anyway to install. And the license is the same key either way, so a beta hiccup never costs you your license. Found something broken? Email hello.dearroroapp@gmail.com.

Can I try it before buying?

Yes — download the app and start a free 7-day trial right inside it. Every feature included, no card — just an email so we can send your trial note; one trial per machine. And if you buy and it still doesn't fit your desk, there's a 30-day money-back guarantee — reply to your receipt for a full refund. Details in the refund policy.

Can I gift DeskSquat?

Yes — at checkout there's an optional "gift recipient" field. Enter their email and the license key goes straight to them, with a note that it's from you. You get a receipt with a copy of the key, just in case.