Balancer

A personal trainer for micro-breaks, living in the menu bar.

Year: 2026
Made for: macOS
State: shipped

Break reminders tell you to take a break and leave the hard part to you. Dismissing one costs nothing, so I dismissed every one.

Balancer names the exercise. Every prompt is one specific movement with an illustration, chosen so the set rotates across wrists, shoulders, neck, and eyes rather than repeating whatever you last ignored. It picks the movement for you.

It lives in the menu bar and stays out of the way the rest of the time.

How to use it

Nothing to install yet — the repo is private, so there is no public build.

It is a menu bar app. If it opens up it will ship as a .dmg like Islands and dab.

One prompt. The movement is named and drawn, so there is nothing left to decide.

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