Unlimited real-time monitoring — free

A posture app for Mac that shows what your neck is carrying.

See posture and estimated neck load in real time. Monitoring is free all day, and camera analysis stays on your Mac.

Free · macOS 14+ · 16.4 MB
Drag to slouchNo camera needed
Estimated neck load12 kg15° forward tilt
That's like carrying
5 kg
12 kg
20 kg
24 kg
a kettlebell
Estimates based on Hansraj (2014). Relative to your upright posture — not a clinical measurement.
  • No daily limit
  • No account required for monitoring
  • No camera uploads
  • macOS 14+
Try it live

Feel it with your own camera.

Ten seconds to calibrate, then watch your neck load move as you do. The camera is only asked for after you click, and this demo’s data never enters analytics.

Runs on-device. Nothing leaves your computer.
How it works

Three steps. No hardware.

01

Calibrate to you

Sit the way you actually want to sit and hold it for ten seconds. That becomes your baseline — every number afterwards is relative to you, not to a textbook spine.

02

Watch relative load

Pelion reads your webcam on-device and shows how much more your neck is carrying than at your baseline, in kilograms or pounds.

03

Nudge only when useful

When load stays high, you get one quiet card — paced by cooldowns, never more than one every five minutes. Nudges are off by default.

What the number means

An estimate relative to your own baseline.

Pelion does not weigh your neck. It measures how far your head has moved forward from the upright posture you calibrated, and converts that angle into an estimated load using the interpolation published by Hansraj (2014). The useful part is the change: what you carry now versus what you carry sitting tall.

Because it is anchored to your own baseline rather than to a population average, it is a feedback signal — not a clinical measurement, and not a diagnosis.

See how angle becomes load →
For developers and agents

Give your AI agent live posture context — locally.

Pelion ships a Model Context Protocol server, so Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients can read what your neck is doing while you work. It exposes 7 resources and 5 free tools — 3 that return data and 2 that file a tuning request you approve in the app. The 5 agent behaviour tools ship with Pro and are not open yet.

  • Local stdio
  • No listening port
  • Off by default
  • No camera images
Read the MCP setup guide →
Free and Pro

Monitoring is the free part.

Real-time posture monitoring is free all day, with no daily limit. Pelion Pro adds advanced history, Guard, Recovery and agent actions — it does not unlock more monitoring time.

Free

ALL DAY, NO LIMIT
  • Real-time posture monitoring, all day
  • Live neck-load estimate in kg or lb
  • Today's summary — monitored time, healthy %, peak
  • Fatigue & budget
  • MCP resources and read tools for local AI agents
  • MCP tuning requests, applied only after you approve them

Pro — Guard & Recovery

NOT OPEN YET
  • Full history, trends & patterns
  • Multi-desk calibration
  • MCP write tools for agents
  • System notifications (L3)
  • 60-second reset, before/after verified
  • Fatigue release you can measure
  • Recovery analytics
  • Agent-started sessions

No price yet — Pro is not on sale, so there is nothing to buy or restore today.

Privacy architecture

Your camera feed never leaves your computer.

  1. 1. Camera frame

    A frame is read into memory from your webcam. The camera light is on while it watches, and off the moment you pause.

  2. 2. On-device inference

    The model runs on your Mac and derives angles — a tilt, a load estimate, a confidence. No frame is uploaded, because there is nothing to upload to.

  3. 3. Frame discarded

    The frame is gone. What is kept is aggregate numbers: your baseline, daily statistics and five-minute buckets. No video is ever written to disk.

The one exception is the MCP snapshot: while you have the MCP server switched on, the app writes your current reading to a private file on your Mac so a local agent can read it. It holds a single instant — no images and no history — it is deleted when you switch MCP off, and it is never uploaded. Read the privacy policy →

The camera light is honest: on while Pelion is watching, off the moment you pause. The live demo on this page works the same way, entirely inside your browser.

Built in the open

Check the product behind the promise

Pelion publishes how product claims are checked and ties every release note to the exact Mac download people can verify.

How it worksFollow the data, not a sloganWatch the current product flow, inspect the on-device boundary and download Pelion's reproducible MCP measurements.AboutWhy Pelion existsRead the product principles, privacy boundary and editorial policy behind Pelion Posture.ChangelogVerify the current releaseSee the public version, artifact checksum and an honest note about the current build's version labels.LearnRead the posture guidesExplore sourced explanations of posture, neck load and desk ergonomics, with the evidence limits kept visible.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pelion Posture really free?

Yes. Real-time posture monitoring is free all day, with no daily limit. Pelion Pro adds advanced history, Guard, Recovery and agent actions — it does not unlock more monitoring time.

Is there a daily time limit on monitoring?

No. There is no per-day cap and no trial window. You can leave Pelion watching for your whole working day without paying anything.

Do I need an account to use it?

No. Monitoring never needs an account. Your baseline, statistics and settings all live on your Mac. An account only exists for things that cannot stay local, such as being told when Pro opens.

What does Pelion Pro add?

Pro adds full history, trends & patterns, multi-desk calibration, mcp write tools for agents, system notifications (l3), and more. It is a Guard and Recovery layer on top of monitoring, not extra monitoring time.

How much does Pelion Pro cost?

There is no price, because Pro is not open yet. Rather than showing a placeholder figure, the app says "not open yet" — there is nothing to buy and nothing to restore today.

Does my camera video leave my Mac?

No. Frames are analysed on your Mac and discarded immediately. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no footage on disk to sync or leak.

What does Pelion keep on my Mac?

Aggregates only: your calibrated baseline, daily statistics and five-minute buckets of load — numbers and timestamps, never images. You can export all of it, or delete it, from the app's privacy settings.

Is the neck-load number a medical measurement?

No. It is an estimate of how much more your neck carries compared with your own calibrated upright baseline, interpolated from Hansraj (2014). It is not a clinical measurement and Pelion does not diagnose anything.

How does calibration work?

You sit the way you actually want to sit and hold it for ten seconds. That becomes your upright baseline, and every number afterwards is relative to you rather than to a textbook spine. You can recalibrate at any time.

What do I need to run Pelion Posture?

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later and a webcam — the built-in one is fine. No extra hardware, no wearable, no subscription.

What is the MCP server that ships with the app?

Pelion bundles a local Model Context Protocol server so AI clients such as Claude Code and Cursor can read your posture context. It speaks stdio only, opens no listening port, makes no network requests of its own, and is off by default until you turn it on.

What can an AI agent actually do through MCP?

It can read: 7 resources and 5 free tools, of which 3 return data directly and 2 file a tuning request that you approve inside the app. The 5 behaviour tools — pausing monitoring, sending a nudge, starting a focus or relief session — ship with Pro and are not open, so the server declines them.

Does the browser demo on this page send anything anywhere?

No. The demo asks for the camera only after you click, runs the same model locally in your browser, and sends no frames, features or numbers anywhere. Nothing from the demo enters analytics.

Download Pelion Posture for Mac

Free, with no daily limit and no account. Drag it to your Applications folder and it starts watching quietly.

Version 0.1.1 · 16.4 MB · Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later