AirPosture - Now on Mac, with a voice coach in your AirPods
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New since our March launch: a Mac app that lives in the menu bar and cues you from the notch, a voice coach that speaks in your AirPods, and coaching that keeps working with your phone locked. AirPosture turns the motion sensors in your AirPods into a posture coach. When your head drifts forward, a calm voice helps you sit back up. Plus 30-second resets and a weekly view of your posture, with iPhone and Mac in sync. Free for 2 hours a day.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Relja, a solo developer from Serbia. I spend most of my day at a desk, and by evening my neck always told me how I'd been sitting. Posture straps and camera apps never stuck for me.
Then I realized AirPods Pro and Max have the same motion sensors as a phone, and they sit on your head all day. So I built AirPosture: it watches your head angle through your AirPods, and when you start to slouch, a calm voice in your ear tells you to sit back up. No extra hardware, no camera.
I launched a very early version here in March. Since then almost everything changed:
• A Mac app that lives in the menu bar and gives a quiet cue from the notch
• A voice coach that speaks once, then just a soft tone
• It keeps coaching with your phone locked in your pocket
• 30-second resets when your neck needs a break
• iPhone and Mac stay in sync
It's free for 2 hours a day, Premium unlocks all-day coaching.
I'd love honest feedback: does the cue feel helpful or annoying, and what would make you keep it running all day? I'll be here all day answering every comment.
the quiet cue in the notch during focus hours sounds way less annoying than a buzzing phone. did you test how often it nudges before it starts feeling naggy?
@neerajnathany Thanks! That was the main goal on the Mac. The notch panel only shows up for a slouch that lasts, never more than once every 90 seconds, and it hides as soon as you sit up. If you need a quiet hour, there's a mute button right in the panel. Early feedback also pushed me to add volume sliders and a "how often" setting with plain numbers instead of vague levels.
@reljadev a mute button right in the panel is a nice touch, thanks. did the volume sliders end up mattering more to people than the how-often setting?
Using the motion sensors already in AirPods as a posture coach is a neat idea. Small productivity tools like this are usually my kind of thing, and a quiet cue from the Mac menu bar rather than pop-ups feels right to me.
@simon_moxon Thanks Simon! That's the whole idea: no new hardware, and on the Mac it stays out of the way in the menu bar until you actually slouch.