TouchGrass

Context-aware break reminders without invasive permissions

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Love that it respects meetings and screen recordings instead of just nagging. One thing I'd love is a custom activity category for apps like writing tools where I want a break but my keystrokes keep triggering the "you're typing a lot" reminder, maybe a whitelist of apps where it stays quiet.

Saran, the answer you gave ivory (idle time, media playback, sleep/wake, the mic indicator, and nothing else) is more useful than the tagline, and right now it lives only in a comment thread.

I sell software that runs on the machines where patient notes get typed, so every app a clinician installs becomes a security review item. What passes that review is never the privacy policy, it is the claim someone can verify without trusting you: no Accessibility permission is checkable at the OS prompt, a sentence in a doc is not.

Is that API list anywhere on the site? The person who approves a $3.99 install on a work Mac is usually not the person who wants it.

"Without invasive permissions" doing a lot of work in this tagline, and honestly it's the right lead - half these tools die at the permissions screen. Did you find people actually take the breaks, or does it become another dismissed notification after week one?

Curious about one edge case: if I step away from my Mac but just switch to Slack on my phone, it’s not really a break. Do you try to account for that, or is being away from the device the main signal?

Congrats on the launch!

Really like the idea of waiting for the right moment instead of interrupting people with another rigid timer. It feels like a simple, lightweight product, but honestly something almost everyone who spends hours at a computer could benefit from.

I’m currently working on Windows, so unfortunately I can’t try it myself yet — but I’d definitely be interested if a Windows version comes in the future. Congrats on the launch!

congrats on shipping, the "waits for the right moment instead of a hard timer" framing is the right instinct, most break apps get uninstalled exactly because they interrupt a call. curious about the other direction though - if I'm sitting at my desk not touching the Mac for a while (reading something on paper, on a phone call with earbuds, just thinking) does that idle time count toward a completed break the same as actually walking away, or does it only credit a break once you've been away long enough that it's confident you left the desk?

I need this so badly, with coding agent I can stay locked in for hours without even realizing!

Let me try it out and provide feedback, but the only issue I can see without trying right now is that timing needs to match when I am done giving the prompts in all pending sessions and they are all firing up, that would be a great time for me to "TouchGrass"

Will provide more feedback after my actual usage, but this is awesome, I am excited to try this out.

Hi, congrats launch, What’s the biggest product decision you’ve had to reverse so far — and what did it teach you about how people actually take breaks versus how they say they want to take breaks?

The tagline mentions context-aware break reminders without invasive permissions, which raises a practical question: what kinds of context can TouchGrass safely use without asking for broad access? Is it more about local activity signals, calendar/focus state, or something else? That boundary would be helpful to understand for teams that are cautious about productivity tools watching too much.

I think this app is definitely something I would not use because I have this habit already and I am pretty healthy BUT easily good for highly productive people that have 10+ years of experience in tech or working for corporate. Another pool of people that would love this is students like medical or PhD people.

Funny name 😅 I usually get annoyed by break reminders, ignore them and end up focusing even harder. So checking whether I’m actually deep in something, or whether I wasn’t even at the computer, already sounds much better. Congrats on the launch!

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How exactly does the app detect that a call or screen recording is happening, given that it deliberately never requests the Accessibility permission?