Unseat

A tiny always-on-top sitting timer for Windows.
The pill fills as you sit and turns red when it's time to move.

Time's up? Take a break, or sit one more session.

Docks to a screen edge. Point at it to peek; it slides out when time is up.

Everything else is one click away in the tray.

Simple settings, light or dark.

Also

• Keeps counting through idle time, a locked screen and sleep; restarts pick up where they left off.
• Shortcuts: Ctrl+Alt+Shift + P pause · B break · S snooze · R reset · U show/hide.
• Optional iPhone reminders over your own Tailscale network (setup).
• Five alert sounds, five sizes, countdown or stopwatch, 14-day stats.
• Local only: no account, cloud or telemetry. One 1.3 MB exe, no installer or runtime.

Install

Windows 10/11 (x64). Download unseat.exe from Releases, keep it in a folder of your choice and run it. Settings live in %APPDATA%\Unseat.

0.2, shown here, is not on Releases yet: take the unseat-exe artifact from the latest CI run on main.

Build

cargo build --locked --release --features gui

Needs Rust and the MSVC Build Tools. Tests, installing and benchmarks: CONTRIBUTING.md. Design: ARCHITECTURE.md.

License

Apache 2.0. Sounds CC0, Sora font OFL 1.1. See NOTICE. Forks may use the code but should not present themselves as the official Unseat.