AirPosture
A posture coach in your AirPods, for iPhone and Mac
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A posture coach in your AirPods, for iPhone and Mac
73 followers
AirPosture turns the motion sensors in your AirPods into a posture coach. When your head drifts forward, it catches the slouch and a calm voice in your ear helps you sit back up. It keeps working with your phone locked. On Mac it lives in the menu bar and shows a quiet cue from the notch during long focus hours. Quick 30-second resets, a weekly view of your posture, and iPhone and Mac stay in sync. Free for 2 hours a day, Premium for all day.
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AirPosture
Launched this week
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.
How often does the voice coach nudge you? Sorry if covered. But i’d worry about it getting annoying during long work sessions.
@jamie_day Good question, it's the thing I tuned the most. A quick glance down doesn't count. On the default level the coach waits for about 4 seconds of a clear slouch, says one short line, and if you stay slouched it switches to a soft tone every 45 seconds until you sit up. A new slouch never gets a cue sooner than 30 seconds after the last one.
Is "slouch" a fixed angle or does it learn my normal position? Reading notes on the desk vs looking at a monitor are totally different head angles for me, and I'd mute anything that pings me for reading.
@danylo_kozak Not a fixed angle. It measures from your own upright, taken when the session starts (or whenever you tap Set upright), and it keeps adjusting during the session: if you sit up after a cue and settle a bit lower than where you started, that becomes your new upright. There's a limit, so it can't slowly drift into accepting a slouch.
Honest answer on reading though: AirPods only see head angle, so reading notes flat on the desk looks like a slouch to them. For now the fix is the mute (30 min or an hour, also one tap in the Mac notch panel) while you read. A proper reading mode is a fair ask and it's going on my list.
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.