For Apple Silicon

Ambient posture sensing that lives in your menu bar.

Ortho uses the sensors already in your Mac and AirPods to catch a slouch early and give you a gentle nudge. Everything stays on your Mac.

Beta for macOS See how it works

Sensors

Five signals your Mac already has.

No extra hardware. Ortho combines what your Mac and AirPods already sense, camera, lid angle, motion, into one read on how you're sitting.

Pick a signal

One at a time.

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

Head pitch −12°

Privacy

Nothing leaves your Mac. Ever.

Ortho does the analysis on your device, keeps a couple of numbers (a posture score, some pose data), and throws the rest away, including the camera frame itself. There's no server to send it to.

  • Your camera frame gets analyzed, then deleted. What Ortho keeps is a few numbers, never the image.
  • Head orientation only, and it arrives as numbers. No microphone, no audio. The orange recording dot never lights.
  • Reads the laptop's tilt, not you. It's 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.

If you've got an Apple Silicon Mac, Ortho runs. Add AirPods or use a MacBook and it picks up more, automatically.

  • 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, so 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.

We're testing with a small group first so we can actually talk to everyone using it. Drop your email and we'll reach out when there's a spot.