Ottium reminds you to look away, stretch and move, right from your Mac's notch. Breaks, reminders and focus, made for people who sit at a laptop all day.
Download for macOSOttium lives in your menu bar and speaks up from the notch, only when it's time.
A gentle nudge, not a notification.
When it's time for a break, a small card grows out of your MacBook's notch. Start a 20 second eye break or a neck roll and a little figure shows you how. Away from your Mac or in a call? Ottium waits, and counts the time away as a break.
Work and private, on your hours.
Work reminders stay inside your working hours; private ones keep you company in the evening. Start from 28 ready-made reminders for eyes, posture, water and movement, and see your whole day on one timeline.
Work in 25/5, 50/10 or your own rhythm, with the time left in a small pill in the notch. Rain, ocean or a fireplace play while you work, mixed your way.
See how many breaks you actually took, your streak of good days, and which reminders you tend to miss in the afternoon.
Say what you need.
Tell Ottium "keep my posture straight and drink more water" and it picks the reminders and how often they come, or describe one and its name, note and timing fill themselves in. It runs on your Mac with Apple Intelligence, so nothing leaves it.
Everything you need for daily breaks is free. Pro adds more for those who want it.
Ottium isn't notarized by Apple yet; that comes with the full release. Until then, macOS asks you to confirm once:
Open the downloaded Ottium disk image and drag Ottium to Applications.
Open Ottium from Applications. macOS says it can't verify it: click Done.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security and click Open Anyway.
Click Open Anyway once more and confirm with Touch ID or your password. That's it, once per download.
Your reminders, notes and stats stay on your Mac. Ottium sends anonymous usage counts (like how many reminders you have and which features you use, never their names or notes) to help decide what to build next. You can turn that off in Settings → General. The details are on the privacy page.
Any Mac with macOS 15 Sequoia or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. The alerts grow out of the notch on MacBooks that have one, and from the top of the screen on other displays. The AI features need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.
Click the activation link you got, or paste the key in Ottium under Settings → About → License, and click Activate.
Ottium checks this site about once a day. When there's a new version, a quiet line appears in its menu and window with a Download button; download it and drag it over the old one in Applications. Your reminders and stats stay.
Quit Ottium from its menu, then drag it from Applications to the Trash. To remove its data too, delete ~/Library/Containers/dev.vostic.Ottium.
