UNSEAT
IOS · IN DEVELOPMENT
●MOVEMENT ENFORCEMENT · SITTING 00:00

The only alarm walking can silence.

At 30 unbroken minutes of sitting, it fires. There is no dismiss button — only sensor-verified walking clears it. Stand up before 30:00 and it never makes a sound.

SHAKING IT DOESN'T COUNT. WE CHECKED.
THE SCIENCE

Every number here links to its study.

No wellness talk. Six findings — tap any line for the detail and the source.

1.96× It's not just how much you sit — it's how long you sit uninterrupted. DETAIL
People who sat in the longest unbroken stretches had nearly double the risk of early death compared to those who broke their sitting up most often. That's from an observational study of 7,985 adults whose movement was tracked by sensors, not surveys.
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE · 2017
−25% A two-to-five-minute walk cuts post-meal blood sugar by roughly 20–30%. DETAIL
The fix is easier than you think. Walking wakes your leg muscles back up, and they pull sugar straight out of your bloodstream while keeping blood moving. Not a workout. A walk down the hall.
DIABETES CARE · 2012
MED SCI SPORTS EXERC · 2023
−5pts Blood pressure drops at every dose tested. DETAIL
Movement breaks lowered blood pressure by 4–5 points. Even a single minute of walking per hour made a measurable difference.
MED SCI SPORTS EXERC · 2023
60min The gym doesn't cancel out your chair. DETAIL
In a study of one million adults, undoing a full sitting day after the fact took roughly an hour of exercise every single day. Breaking up your sitting works the other way: the risky pattern of long unbroken stretches never builds up, so there's far less to undo. No gym required.
THE LANCET · 2016
10× No, sitting is not "the new smoking." DETAIL
Researchers debunked that one: smoking is roughly 10× deadlier. But heavy total sitting is still linked to a roughly 20% higher risk of dying early (more when it comes in long unbroken stretches), and unlike smoking, movement can genuinely offset it. That's the difference worth acting on.
AM J PUBLIC HEALTH · 2018
±0 Standing is a posture. Walking is the fix. DETAIL
"Just get a standing desk?" That's the fix everyone's heard. But across 83,000 adults, standing more didn't lower heart and circulation risk, and long hours of standing were linked to circulation problems of their own. Movement did the work.
INT J EPIDEMIOLOGY · 2024

The research is consistent: a short, light walk every half hour. What no study can fix is that almost nobody sustains it on willpower. That's the entire reason UNSEAT exists.

THE TRIALS MEASURED THE BEHAVIOR. UNSEAT ENFORCES IT.

OPERATING SPEC

An alarm with a lock on it. Walking is the key.

01
It counts sitting, not the clock
The timer runs only while you're still. Stand up at minute 22 and it resets to zero, in silence.
02
Quiet by design
It opens with haptics and a screen takeover, escalating only if ignored. Un-ignorable means it doesn't go away — not that it's loud.
03
Cleared only by verified walking
Step cadence, motion classification, and a gait check — on-device. One to five minutes of real walking. There is no other button.
04
Nothing leaves your phone
No camera. No cloud. No account holding your movement history. Sensors verify locally; the data stays yours.
WHO IT'S FOR

This is not a workout app.

It's for people who sit all day — but refuse to rot at a desk.

Breaking up sitting isn't a workout, and we won't pretend it is. It's the floor — the mechanical minimum a body needs across a desk shift.

THE REALITY CHECK

What if you're driving?

It knows. The same classifier that verifies your walk tells driving from sitting — drive time never counts. Meetings defer it. You can pause it before it fires; once it triggers, the lock engages. And if you genuinely can't walk, it never blares in quiet contexts — the break is simply marked missed. It costs your streak, not your dignity.

THE INCUMBENT PROBLEM

Every other reminder trusts you. That's the bug.

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Watch stand ring
A notification at :50. Dismissed by lunch, disabled by Friday.
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Break reminder apps
One tap and gone. The tap becomes reflex within a week.
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Desktop break lockers
They can freeze your screen. They can't tell if you moved. You sit through the break.
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UNSEAT
Clears when your sensors confirm you walked. There is no other button.
PRICE
$29/YR
Founding price, locked for life. One tier, everything included, no free version — an enforcer you can wriggle out of isn't an enforcer.