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After too much AI, your Mac gently sends you outside.
Free · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
It watches how much active AI time you rack up — apps, terminal tools, AI sites — and when you cross your limit, it sits you down for a few minutes outside.
See how it works →let’s set your pace
three quick things, then we touch grass.
what do we call you?
nudge me to touch grass after
…and keep me out for
a gentle heads-up before each break
you can change any of this later in settings.
A ten-second hello.
Tell it your name, how long you can go before a break, and how long the break lasts. Then it slips into your menu bar — no dock icon, no clutter — and gets out of the way.
Yours to dial in.
Change the limit, the rolling window, the break length, and exactly what counts as “AI” — which apps, which command-line tools, which websites. Soft sliders, no spreadsheets.
settings
tune your pace, targets, and permissions.
you
limits
Honest by design.
The whole thing is one small, calm idea — held to it carefully.
It only counts when you mean it.
A second counts when you're present at an AI app, or an AI agent is genuinely working on your behalf in the background. Idle time and unrelated apps don't.
A minute's warning, every time.
Before a break lands, it taps you on the shoulder so nothing yanks the screen out from under you.
Everything stays on your Mac.
No analytics, no account, no servers. The only thing it ever reads is your browser's active-tab URL — locally — to spot AI sites.
Firm, but never a trap.
The break always ends on its own timer. There's no anti-tamper daemon; a determined you can always quit. It's a nudge, not a cage.
Time to touch grass?
Free · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel