Deskthaw

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Deskthaw waits out your calls, then gives you one short seated move for the part that is stiff.

Free while it is a beta, and notarized, so it opens the normal way. It asks for no camera, microphone, screen or accessibility permission.

Version 0.1.4. What changed

The download needs JavaScript and a quick bot check; email [email protected] if it won't start.

Not medical advice. Stop any move that hurts. See the terms.

Want to hear when the beta changes or ends? Leave your email.

Leaving it asks Anton at Deskthaw to email you when the beta changes or ends, and the occasional progress update. Nothing else, and you can stop it from any email. Who we are and where we are: privacy.

Tested on
Built and tested on macOS 26, Apple silicon. It should run on macOS 13 and later and on Intel; I have not been able to test those. Tell me if it doesn't.
First run
At first run it asks once whether it may send a few counts about how you used it, with two buttons and nothing preselected, and it takes no for an answer. What that message contains is written out on the privacy page.
Expiry
The build stops working forty-five days after you first launch it, or sooner on the end date fixed in each build, and says so; there is no updater yet.
Blind spot
A call you are listening to in a browser tab with your microphone muted and your camera off produces no signal at all, so a move can come during it; skip it with one click. For a call app such as Zoom, tick it under Wait while these apps run… in the menu and Deskthaw waits while it is open, up to an hour at a time.
Uninstall
Remove local data and quit in the menu, then drag the app to the Trash. If you shared counts, copy the id first with Copy my install id and email it to [email protected]: that deletes the server's record, which otherwise expires ninety days after the last report.