A COACH IN YOUR MENU BAR
STANDCOACH
Your standing desk works.
Your habit doesn't.
StandCoach lives in the macOS menu bar and ramps you from 10 minutes of standing per hour to a 50/50 split — one earned week at a time, and only when you're actually at your desk.
Coaching runs when an external display is connected — that's how StandCoach knows you're at your desk. Works with or without a Bluetooth standing desk.
FREE FOR 30 DAYS · THEN $12.99 ONCE · NO SUBSCRIPTION
WHY STANDCOACH
Most standing desks become
expensive sitting desks.
Three failure modes. StandCoach is built against all three.
Enthusiasm isn't a dose
People stand for hours on day one, hurt, and quit. Enthusiasm isn't a dose — progression is.
Reminders that can't see you
Generic reminders fire on the hour — including in meetings and when you're away — so you learn to ignore them.
Invisible progress
Without streaks, history, or a trend line, the habit is invisible. Invisible habits fade.
StandCoach treats standing as a habit to train, not a switch to flip.
THE CYCLE
One glance.
Sit ⇄ stand, on rails.
- 01
SIT · clinical blue
External display detected → the sit timer starts. Week 3 gives you 50 minutes.
- 02
PROMPT · amber
"Time to stand (20 min)." DONE starts the clock — SNOOZE buys five more.
- 03
STAND · vital green
The stand timer runs. Desk paired? It can rise with you — and standing past the goal keeps counting.
- 04
RELEASE
"You can sit now." Back to 01 — all day, automatically. The menu-bar icon tells the phase at a glance.
Leave your desk and coaching pauses. Come back and it resumes mid-cycle — exactly where you left off.
NO BREAK REQUIRED
You don't stop working.
You just stop sitting.
Standing isn't a workout that drags you away from the keyboard. The desk rises and your screen, keyboard and hands come with it — the call keeps going, the email keeps getting written, the build keeps running. The only thing that changes is that you're on your feet while it happens.
Your work
Same Mac, same windows, same meeting. Standing happens around the work — never instead of it. Nothing pauses.
Your movement
Up to two hours on your feet across a workday — earned in 20-minute doses you barely notice, while the work still gets done.
THE RAMP
Weeks you earn —
not weeks the calendar hands you.
A day qualifies when standing time hits 3× that week's stand target. Three qualifying days in the current 7-day window advance you. Miss the bar and the same week repeats. You never drop back.
Week 1 starts at 10 stand / 60 sit. By week 8+ you're at 35 / 35 — a deliberate ~50/50 steady state.
DAILY GOAL = 3× THE WEEK'S STAND MINUTES — 30 MIN IN WEEK 1, 105 MIN BY WEEK 7.
PRESENCE
It knows when you're
actually at your desk.
The proxy is beautifully boring: your external display. Plugged in means you're at the desk. Everything else follows.
- PLUG IN — coaching starts. The sit timer begins the moment your setup wakes.
- UNPLUG — timers pause and pending prompts clear. No ghost notifications at the coffee shop.
- RECONNECT — clean resume, mid-cycle, exactly where you left off.
- PAUSE FOR TODAY — one toggle in Settings silences everything until tomorrow. Coach, not drill sergeant.
PRESS THE KEYS — THE DEMO DESK OBEYS
DESK CONTROL
Optional. Your desk
can rise with you.
StandCoach can talk to Bluetooth standing desks (Uplift, Desky, Jarvis, and similar). Pair once; it reconnects on launch. It can auto-raise when standing starts — and never lowers without your confirmation.
- OFF BY DEFAULT — a single setting turns it on when you want it.
- NO STANDING DESK REQUIRED — coaching works either way.
- DESK = SOURCE OF TRUTH — when paired and calibrated, the physical desk position decides sitting vs standing.
COMPATIBILITY DETAILS AND PAIRING HELP LIVE ON THE SUPPORT PAGE.
THE RECEIPTS
Streaks that respect your weekend.
Working days only — Sat/Sun in the US, Fri/Sat in Israel, per your Mac's region. Every other Friday is a scheduled rest day, and your week starts on whichever day you choose.
PRIVACY
Your data never
leaves your Mac.
Everything works offline. Schedule, standing history, streaks, and desk pairing stay on your Mac. Analytics is off by default. No account. No health data. Purchases go through Apple — StandCoach never sees payment details.
PRICING
Try it free.
Then own it — once.
Start with everything unlocked for 30 days. No account, no sign-up. If it earns its place in your menu bar, a single one-time purchase keeps it. No subscription, ever.
NO SUBSCRIPTION
Free for 30 days, then a single purchase to keep it. Every feature included — nothing held back behind a higher tier.
Start the 30-day trial ▸STANDING HISTORY STAYS VISIBLE AFTER THE TRIAL
RESTORE PURCHASE COVERS REINSTALLS AND NEW MACS · REQUIRES MACOS 14+
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Do I need a standing desk?
How does it know I'm at my desk?
What data does it collect?
Requirements?
STANDCOACH ▸ GET STARTED
STAND UP.
GRADUALLY.
FREE FOR 30 DAYS · THEN $12.99 ONCE · NO SUBSCRIPTION
REQUIRES MACOS 14+ · NO STANDING DESK REQUIRED · AVAILABLE ON THE MAC APP STORE