Launching today
TouchGrass
Context-aware break reminders without invasive permissions
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Context-aware break reminders without invasive permissions
386 followers
TouchGrass is a context-aware break reminder built for macOS. Most break reminders only know one thing: time. TouchGrass waits through meetings, calls, media playback and screen recordings, counts time away from your Mac as a completed break, and reminds you to blink, improve your posture and rest after long typing sessions. Everything runs locally, never asks for Accessibility permission, and respects your workflow. 7 day free trial, then a one time purchase of $3.99 with lifetime updates.
"Without invasive permissions" doing a lot of work in this tagline, and honestly it's the right lead - half these tools die at the permissions screen. Did you find people actually take the breaks, or does it become another dismissed notification after week one?
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@sakshitbhan Thanks! That was exactly the problem I wanted to solve. So far the feedback has been that people dismiss it far less because it waits for a better moment instead of interrupting deep work. That's what I was aiming for.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
There should be longer breaks to make us go outside for longer time :)
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@busmark_w_nika Yes, TouchGrass handles that. After every 3 short breaks, it tells to take a long break (10 mins by default). All these options are configurable.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@touchgrassland Weekends should be dedicated to several hours breaks :)
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@busmark_w_nika I like that idea! We're actually working on presets, so you'll be able to create different profiles for things like weekdays, weekends, study sessions and deep work, each with its own settings. Hopefully we'll roll that out over the coming weeks.
Love that it respects meetings and screen recordings instead of just nagging. One thing I'd love is a custom activity category for apps like writing tools where I want a break but my keystrokes keep triggering the "you're typing a lot" reminder, maybe a whitelist of apps where it stays quiet.
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@cemaldeiciczmg Thanks! TouchGrass already does this. You can enable a reminder based on continuous typing activity, so if you've been typing for a long time it'll gently remind you to relax your wrists. Right now it's a global setting rather than app specific, but I really like your suggestion and I'll see if I can add per app behaviour in a future update.
Looks pretty good, but I'd like some light music when I'm resting :)
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@maxwell_trent Thanks! I like that idea. TouchGrass with birds chirping might be even more relaxing. I'll add optional ambient sounds in a future update!
IOS App?
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@pratikkinage This is available only for macOS for now.
I think this app is definitely something I would not use because I have this habit already and I am pretty healthy BUT easily good for highly productive people that have 10+ years of experience in tech or working for corporate. Another pool of people that would love this is students like medical or PhD people.
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@saderod Thanks! I actually agree with you. If someone already has healthy habits and naturally takes breaks, TouchGrass probably isn't something they'll think about much, and that's a good thing.
I need this so badly, with coding agent I can stay locked in for hours without even realizing!
Let me try it out and provide feedback, but the only issue I can see without trying right now is that timing needs to match when I am done giving the prompts in all pending sessions and they are all firing up, that would be a great time for me to "TouchGrass"
Will provide more feedback after my actual usage, but this is awesome, I am excited to try this out.
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@nitish_garg4 Thanks! That's exactly the kind of workflow I built it for. Looking forward to hearing what you think after trying it!