For Apple Silicon

Ambient posture sensing that lives in your menu bar.

Ortho reads the signals your Mac already has — lid angle, webcam, the accelerometer — to feel your posture and nudge you before the ache. No camera feed leaves your machine. It just sits quietly in the menu bar.

Beta for macOS See how it works

Sensors

Five signals your Mac already has.

Ortho reads the sensors built into your Mac and AirPods — no extra hardware — to feel how you're sitting and nudge you before the ache.

Pick a signal

One at a time.

Scroll to light each one up, one signal at a time.

Head pitch −12°

Privacy

Everything stays on your Mac.

Ortho reads your Mac's sensors on the device itself. Frames are analyzed and thrown away; only the derived numbers — pose landmarks and a posture score — are saved, and only on your machine. Nothing is ever sent over the network.

  • The camera frame is analyzed, then discarded — geometry, never a photo. No image is ever stored.
  • Head orientation only, born as numbers. No microphone, no audio — the orange recording dot never lights.
  • Reads the laptop's tilt, not you — the lowest-sensitivity signal of the three.

WEBCAM · APPLE VISION

The frame never touches disk.

A camera frame lives in a temporary RAM buffer while Vision reads its geometry, then it's released and recycled.

AIRPODS · CORE MOTION

Motion numbers, no microphone.

Head orientation arrives as Core Motion data over the local wireless link — no microphone permission, no audio.

MAC HARDWARE · SENSOR INTERFACE

The Mac's physical state, not yours.

Device tilt, movement, and lid angle read through a model-dependent sensor interface — no media buffer, ever.

Compatibility

Any Apple Silicon Mac. Everything else is a bonus.

Ortho's baseline needs nothing but your Mac. Compatible AirPods and Mac motion hardware each add a signal — Ortho detects what's available and uses what it finds.

  • REQUIRED · THAT'S ALL

    Your Mac is enough.

    Ortho runs on any Apple Silicon Mac — laptop or desktop — using the camera as its primary signal. Intel Macs aren't supported: the on-device Vision pipeline is built for Apple Silicon.

    • M1 · M2 · M3 · M4 series
    • macOS 26
    • built-in or external camera

  • OPTIONAL · ADDS HEAD TILT

    Bring your AirPods.

    Any AirPods or Beats with motion sensors add head-tilt tracking — connect them and Ortho picks them up. AirPods 1st and 2nd gen don't carry motion sensors.

    • AirPods Pro (all generations)
    • AirPods Max
    • AirPods (3rd gen or later)
    • Beats Fit Pro
    • Beats Studio Pro
    • Beats Solo 4
    • Powerbeats Pro 2
    • Powerbeats Fit

  • OPTIONAL · ADDS DEVICE CONTEXT

    MacBooks carry hidden sensors.

    Apple Silicon MacBooks ship with a lid-angle sensor and onboard motion hardware. Ortho detects support automatically and reads the device's tilt and hinge angle for context. Desktop Macs don't have these sensors — they simply skip this signal; a closed-lid dock loses the lid-angle channel.

    • Apple Silicon MacBooks (M1 onward)
    • lid angle
    • device tilt

Sensors are additive — Ortho works with whatever your setup has, and every signal it reads stays on the device.

Private beta

Join the first 25 testers.

Ortho is in a small, hands-on beta on Apple Silicon. Leave your email and we'll send you the build and setup steps as spots open up.