OFFICESQUATS Download on the Mac App Store

1,000+ squats counted so far

Get fit at the job that made you unfit.

OfficeSquats locks your Mac every hour until you do 10 squats. Your camera counts them. 90 a day, no gym.

Download on the Mac App Store

Free download · One payment to keep it, no subscription · macOS 14+

The real counter at work: ten reps, then back to work.
Stiff back by 6 pm. Fighting sleep at 3. A gym plan that died in February. And 9 more chair hours tomorrow.

Willpower was never the problem. The distance between you and the workout was. OfficeSquats makes that distance zero: the workout comes to your desk, ten reps at a time.

The lock

It locks your Mac until you squat.

On the hour, a full-screen break covers every display. No notification to swipe away, no decision to make. Ten squats later you're back exactly where you were, and the whole thing took about a minute.

esc Snoozes it 5 minutes. It comes back. That's the point.

The OfficeSquats break screen filling the display: SQUAT BREAK, Time to squat, 12 squats about a minute, and a Start — camera on button, with snooze and skip along the bottom.
The actual break screen, covering everything you were doing.
The camera

Every rep counted. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Pose runs on the Neural Engine inside your Mac: 17 body points per frame, thrown away after each one. Deep squats count, half-hearted dips don't. No video is stored, nothing is uploaded, no account exists.

A frame from the app's own break recording: the camera feed with the live pose skeleton over a person at the bottom of a squat, the depth bar, and the counter reading 7 of 10, Now stand tall.
A frame from the app's own recording: rep 7 of 10, counted on-device.
The calendar

Never mid-meeting. Even while your AI agent works.

It reads your Apple, Google and Outlook calendars and waits for the free moment. A running Zoom, Teams or FaceTime call holds it too. Claude Code keeps coding while you squat; the break never steals your terminal's focus.

The menu bar panel reading In a meeting, I'll wait, your break starts after 2:30 PM, with Wait for meetings switched on and iCloud, Google and Outlook calendars ticked.
The menu bar panel, waiting for a meeting to end.
The payoff

Get fitter ten squats at a time.

Ten a break is 90 a day and 22,680 a year, in office clothes, between two emails. Stronger legs, glutes and core, and about 40 kcal burned at your desk every workday, around 10,000 a year without a gym visit. Whether that shows on the scale depends on lunch. Start with 5 every 2 hours if your knees are skeptical; both dials live in the menu bar.

The plan screen from setup: Your squat prescription, 10 squats per break with minus and plus buttons, how often with 30 min, 45 min, 1 hour, 90 min and 2 hours, about 120 squats per workday, and a Lock in my plan button.
The plan screen from setup. Change it any time from the menu bar.
1,000+

Squats counted so far

Jan's 1,000 from building it. Macs that share anonymous stats add theirs to this number.

Built by two people who sit for a living.

Jan Philip Wahle, smiling, standing at a lake

Jan Philip WahleHalf of OfficeSquats. The other half is Lars Kaesberg.

Hi, we're Jan and Lars, two developers near Göttingen, Germany. We built OfficeSquats for our own desks first: I did the first 1,000 squats myself while building the counter, in front of the same camera you'll use. Our earlier apps, Bloatless and SwipePhotos, live on the iPhone. This one lives on the machine we sit at all day.

OfficeSquats went live on the Mac App Store on September 24, 2026. Nobody has used it long enough for a before-and-after story, so there are no testimonials here. When there are, they will be real, with names. If it changes your week, email us and your words go here.

Jan Philip Wahle & Lars KaesbergWKSolutions GbR · [email protected]

Every fitness app wants a subscription.

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WeeklyAuto-renews until you remember $6.99
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Pay once. It's yours forever.

Nothing renews, every update is included, and support comes from the two people who built it.

Lifetime license

Pay once.

Your local price appears automatically in the app before you buy.

  • 1 license, every Mac you own
  • Unlimited camera-counted breaks
  • Every future update included
  • No account, no subscription
Download on the Mac App Store

Free download. Try a real squat break, then pay once inside the app.

Mac App Store for macOS 14+ · Video never leaves your Mac

Questions people ask

Which Macs does it run on?

Any Mac on macOS 14 or newer. The built-in camera is enough, and a desk webcam that only sees your upper body works too: the counter tracks how far your body drops, head to hips.

Is it free?

The download is free. Setup ends with a real three-squat break counted by your camera, so you see it work before any money changes hands. Then one payment makes it yours for good, no subscription. The exact price shows in your currency inside the app.

I work in an open office. Really?

Esc snoozes 5 minutes, skipping is one click, and breaks only fire inside the work hours and days you set. Or squat anyway and become the reason your whole row starts.

What does the camera actually see?

Frames go to the Neural Engine on your Mac, come back as 17 body points, and are thrown away. Nothing is stored or uploaded. Recording a clip exists only as a button you press on purpose, and the file goes to a folder you pick.

Can I change the dose?

Squats per break and minutes between breaks are two dials in the menu bar. Start with 5 every 2 hours if your knees are skeptical, and turn it up as it gets easy.

What if it doesn't stick?

It sticks precisely because it doesn't rely on you. But if OfficeSquats isn't for you, you can request a refund through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Get fit at the job that made you unfit.

Download on the Mac App Store

Free download · One payment to keep it · macOS 14+