Live instrument · AirPods-native · macOS + iPhone

Your posture,finally measured.

Every other app is a buzzer that pings when you slouch. Poise is different: it reads the motion sensors already inside your AirPods and turns them into one honest number for how hard your neck is working — integrated continuously, the way sports scientists measure training load.

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No camera. No extra hardware. We never sell your data.

THE INSTRUMENT

Watch the load build as she slouches — and ease as she sits back up. Live.

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The demo runs on a fast-forwarded clock, so a long desk session plays out in seconds. The number is computed live from her neck angle by the same engine that ships in the app.

The core idea

A burglar alarm can't tell you
how tired your neck is.

Posture Pal, the webcam apps, the clip-on sensors — they all work like an alarm. Lean past an invisible line and they buzz; sit just inside it and they stay silent. That's why their reviews all say the same two things: the pings get muted by day three, and the setup is fiddly. An alarm can't tell a two-second glance at your phone from forty minutes hunched over a laptop — so it nags you for both.

THE OLD MODEL — THRESHOLD ALARM

Fires the moment you cross the line. Same alert for a glance and for an hour. You learn to ignore it.

POSTURELOAD — CUMULATIVE LOAD

Adds up how far you lean and how long you stay there — and winds back down when you sit up. One number that actually means something.

No one else measures posture this way. Every competitor — even the other AirPods apps — is still an alarm.

What it does differently

Built to be checked,
not to interrupt.

Poise works like the step counter on your wrist: it quietly keeps score all day, and you glance at it whenever you like. Here's what that gets you.

It knows a glance from an hour.

Checking your phone for two seconds costs your neck almost nothing. An hour hunched over a laptop costs a lot. Alarm apps treat those exactly the same — Poise scores them the way your neck actually feels them.

Sitting up actually counts.

Your neck recovers when you give it a break — so the live number eases back down when you sit tall. Good posture gets rewarded, instead of bad posture just getting punished.

One number, three zones.

No dashboards to decode. Green means you're cruising, amber means you've been leaning for a while, red means your neck has done real work today. Glanceable, like a step count.

Who's behind the number

Built by biomedical engineers.
Backed by real research.

Poise was developed by biomedical engineers, and the load model is grounded in peer-reviewed biomechanics and the same assessment tools physiotherapists use in clinics. We even threw out the internet-famous "your head weighs 27 kg when you text" claim — because the research doesn't actually support it.

HONEST BY DESIGN

Where the evidence is strong, we build on it. Where it's thin, we say so — and we don't invent scary "injury risk" scores to keep you hooked. If you'd like to see the papers behind the number, they're all laid out in plain language.

Read the research

The field, honestly

What everyone else asks
you to give up.

Webcams see more of your body — but they're desk-bound and pointed at your face all day. Clip-on sensors work — but you have to buy one and remember to wear it. Poise is the only one that keeps a running score of your whole day, using earbuds you already own, without a camera.

Poise Posture Pal Webcam appsSitApp · Zen Upright Go 2
Keeps score of your whole day Only us Threshold only Threshold only Threshold only
Hardware needed AirPods you own AirPods you own Webcam at desk Buy a sensor
Works away from a desk Yes Yes Desk-bound Yes
Camera-free Yes Varies Always-on camera Camera-free
Clinician-ready export PDF + CSV No No No
Native on Mac and iPhone Both Mobile Desktop Mobile

Your data, your call

Your data
stays yours.

We never sell your data, and we never share it with advertisers. It's yours — and if you ever want it gone, you can delete all of it, permanently, right from the app.

  • 01 We never sell your data — and never will.
  • 02 No ads, and no advertising trackers.
  • 03 Delete everything, permanently, anytime from the app.

Two devices, one engine

Mac-first, because that's
where the strain lives.

macOS

Always-on, from the menu bar.

The Mac is where most desk strain accumulates, and where AirPods give the cleanest signal. Poise lives in your menu bar: a quiet ring that fills as load builds, your daily number one click away, and manual recalibrate whenever you reset your posture. It starts tracking the moment you log in — no window to keep open.

iPhone

Captures the tech-neck the Mac can't see.

Looking down at your phone is real cervical load, and the iPhone app banks it — while intelligently pausing when you're walking or running, so a jog is never logged as a slouch. A home-screen widget and Live Activity to keep today's number glanceable are on the way.

FOR PHYSIOTHERAPISTS & THEIR PATIENTS

Chronic neck-pain patients get an objective, longitudinal record to bring to appointments: daily load trend, peak strain, and tracking consistency — exported as a clean one-page PDF or CSV that speaks a clinician's language, with zone-by-zone and event-level breakdowns on the roadmap. It's the record nobody else in this category offers, and it's free for every user — built to be handed to your physio, not locked behind a paywall.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when
the number hooks you.

FREE
$0

The full live instrument — and the physio report. Forever.

  • Live Posture Load ring, Mac + iPhone
  • Today's daily load score
  • Physio export — PDF + CSV, free for everyone
  • 5-second calibration & recalibrate
  • Freeze-on-dropout accuracy
Coming soon
PRO
$5/ month

Save ~30% annually. The quantified-self depth layer.

  • Everything in Free
  • Full history — weekly & monthly load trends
  • Opt-in smart alerts (sustained load only)
  • Alerts customization
  • Cross-device iCloud sync (coming soon)
Coming soon

Requires AirPods Pro, AirPods (3rd gen or later), AirPods Max, or Beats Fit Pro.

Questions

The honest FAQ.

Which AirPods work?

Any AirPods that can do Spatial Audio: AirPods Pro (all generations), AirPods 3rd generation and later, AirPods Max, and Beats Fit Pro. They already sense how your head is moving — Poise simply puts that ability to work for your neck.

Is this a medical device?

No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Poise is a consumer measurement tool, not a diagnosis. The clinician export — free for every user — is an honest day-by-day record you can bring to a professional, useful precisely because it doesn't overclaim.

Will it drain my AirPods or my battery?

Head-motion tracking is lightweight and uses sensors that are already running while your AirPods are in. On Mac it sips power in the background; on iPhone it's tuned to avoid banking load while you move, which also keeps it efficient.

What if my AirPods disconnect mid-session?

The moment the signal drops, accumulation freezes. A gap is never silently counted as good posture or as slouch — the number simply pauses and resumes when the connection returns. Accuracy over guesswork, always.

Does it nag me?

Only if you ask it to. Alerts are opt-in and fire solely on sustained acute load with a cooldown, never on a passing glance. They're deliberately not marked time-sensitive, so your Sleep and Focus modes silence them automatically. The default experience is a number you check, not a buzzer you fight.

Stop guessing. Start
measuring your neck.

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