Notifications are easy to swipe away without reading. Heed takes over your whole screen at the right moment — stretch, hydrate, rest your eyes, or make that meeting. Add reminders in plain language from any app ("drink water every 20m"). Repeating or scheduled. Fully native: global shortcuts, calendar integration, and a customizable reminder screen — backgrounds, live clock, countdown, and a strict "forced break" mode. Free to start. One-time Pro, no subscription.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Heed because notifications never worked on me. A little toast slides in, I dismiss it on reflex, and an hour later I still haven't stood up, drunk water, or rested my eyes. The reminder "happened" but I never actually noticed it. So I flipped it: instead of a notification you ignore, Heed calmly takes over the whole screen for a moment — just enough to make you pause and act. It lives in the menu bar, you add reminders in plain language from any app ("stand up every 20m", "call mom tomorrow 9am"), and it stays fully native to the Mac. A few things I care about: • Plain-language quick-add from anywhere • Repeating + scheduled reminders • A reminder screen you can actually make yours (backgrounds, clock, countdown, and a strict "forced break" mode for when you really need to step away) • Calendar integration so it nudges you before meetings It's free to start, and Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscriptions, no account, your data stays on your Mac. Would love your honest feedback — especially what would make you keep it in your menu bar. What breaks would you set first? 🙌

Love the forced break mode and the plain-language scheduling, that's exactly the kind of thing I keep meaning to build myself. One thing that would push it over the edge for me: let the reminder screen detect when I'm wearing headphones or in a meeting and quietly suppress audio/visual alerts so I'm not the person with a giant countdown on screen during a call.

The full-screen takeover actually stops me from mindlessly dismissing reminders, which is the problem every other app has. Plain language input from anywhere is a nice touch.

Heed

Full-screen reminders you actually notice, on your Mac

Full-screen reminders you actually notice, on your Mac