The movement reminder app for desk workers.

A movement reminder app nudges you to get up and move after you’ve been sitting a while, then gives you something to do. Wakeout’s nudges come from Apple Health (a ping only when you’ve actually been still) or from a timer you set, and every one opens a 30-second move you can do right at your desk.

Because intention is not enough. Even people who care about their health forget to move when they are focused — eight straight hours of sitting is the new default, and the body files a complaint. The research on sedentary behavior is settled: prolonged sitting raises cardiovascular risk, slows metabolism, and accelerates back, neck, and hip pain regardless of how much you exercise outside of work. The fix is not a gym membership. It is interrupting the stillness every 30 to 60 minutes with brief, deliberate movement.

Most reminder apps are dumb timers — they ping you on a fixed interval whether you have been sitting or not. Wakeout pairs with Apple Health to read your real movement data: step count, walking minutes, stand hours. We only ping when you have actually been still for too long. If you walked to a meeting at 11, you do not get a "time to move" reminder at 11:15. The reminder is responsive to your day, not blind to it.

With your permission, Wakeout reads movement and step data from Apple Health and tracks the time since your last meaningful movement. The threshold is configurable; the default is around 60 minutes of stillness, with smart adjustments for time of day. When the threshold is crossed, you get a single friendly notification with a 30-second movement you can do right at your desk. Tap the notification, do the move, get back to work.

A sedentary reminder is a nudge that fires after a long stretch of sitting, so you break it up before it turns into a stiff back and a 3pm slump. Many watches have a basic one that just says stand up. Wakeout reads your movement in Apple Health, skips the ping if you just walked somewhere, and hands you a move to do instead.

Yes. Set the healthy work timer to the gap you like, say every 30 or 45 minutes, and use each ping to move instead of standing locked in place. The Standing Desk pack has stretches made for standing, and movement games like Hula Hoop are played on your feet.

Yes, and it’s made for people who don’t love working out. Set reminders for the hours you sit, and each one brings a short move: a stretch, a dance, a walk break or a camera game. There’s a new Move Challenge every day, and your streak counts the days you showed up.

Each individual movement is 30 seconds. A full Wakeout routine is three movements stitched together — about 90 seconds total. The defaults are built around the small-dose, high-frequency research on sedentary behavior: brief repeated movement breaks beat occasional long sessions for desk workers.

Yes — that is the design. Without an interruption you would not look up from your screen for hours, which is exactly why you are here. Each ping is brief: a single notification, a 30-second movement, then back to work. The smart reminder mode is more selective (only when Apple Health says you have actually been still). The healthy work timer fires on the cadence you set. Both are interruptions you opted into, because the alternative is sitting still all day.