Long stretches of focused screen work can leave mind and body feeling spent. Small Pause finds a better moment for a brief look-away or movement break — making a little room for recovery without breaking your flow.
Small PauseRelease your neckNowSmall PauseMove gently and stay within a comfortable range · about 45 seconds
Start when you are ready. The timer will not run before you do.
ⓘStop for pain, dizziness, tingling, numbness, or weakness.
A long desk day can feel mentally and physically draining. The evidence does not say one reminder cancels out sitting — but it does support sitting less, moving more, and making room for brief recovery during demanding work.
A harmonised meta-analysis of more than one million adults found that this association depends strongly on overall physical activity. It is a population-level association, not proof that every seated hour directly causes harm.
Lancet meta-analysisA 2022 meta-analysis of 22 independent study samples found small improvements in fatigue and vigor. The overall effect on performance was not statistically significant.
PLOS ONE reviewWHO recommends limiting sedentary time and says all physical activity counts. Small Pause helps you remember a brief look-away or movement; it does not replace regular physical activity.
WHO guidelineThese are population associations and short-term studies, not a guarantee of an individual health outcome. Small Pause is a wellbeing reminder, not a medical device or treatment.
The hard part is not knowing you should pause. It is finding a moment you will not dismiss. Small Pause counts active work locally, then Pro can wait for a more natural boundary before showing a reviewed action.
SCROLL TO UNWINDFree keeps its once-daily 30-minute active-use cue; Pro lets you choose the minimum.
Smart Timing checks only coarse local signals and waits for a likely pause.
A compact card offers a reviewed action. Start it, choose Later, or pause reminders.
Every cue comes from the reviewed action library. AI signals can help choose timing; AI never generates health instructions.
Look about 6 metres away for 20 seconds and let near-focus work pause.
Lower one shoulder and make a small, comfortable side tilt without pulling the head.
No timer or fixed volume — just a quiet cue to take a few comfortable sips.
Reach upward, lengthen from the desk, stretch both sides, then release each calf.
Twelve comfortable supported squats offer a brief lower-body movement to break up sitting.
Follow a clear gentle-lift and full-release rhythm while breathing normally.
After your chosen active-work minimum, Smart Timing combines continuous use, recent input density, a short pause, app switching, and optional AI-thinking hooks. A five-minute cap provides the fallback.
See Pro details →Set 20, 30, 45, 60, or 90 minutes of active work.
Short pauses, app switches, and enabled AI-thinking events can open the cue without reading your work.
Prefer the exact threshold? Disable Smart Timing and keep the regular active-time cadence.
Smart Timing uses only coarse local activity signals. Optional on-device camera sensing processes low-rate frames in memory for presence, facing direction, and calibrated posture changes, then immediately discards them. No images or raw keypoints are saved or uploaded, and it cannot diagnose hydration, pain, or medical conditions.
One automatic cue each day
Fixed 30-minute active-work trigger
Five office wellbeing actions
Notification and pause controls
Smart Timing with a 5-minute max wait
20–90 minute active-work minimum
Optional local AI-thinking signal
Reviewed actions and opt-in training