Most stand up reminders get swiped away by Tuesday. Supermoo has a cow named Moo who nudges you, and a villain cow named Dracu-Moo who wants you glued to the chair. You stand up to ruin his plan. Free, no account.
A standing desk gives you the option to stand. It does not make you do it. Most people raise it once, get absorbed in work, and stay in one position for hours anyway. The missing piece was never the furniture. It was the nudge.
That's all a stand up reminder is: a small, well-timed tap on the shoulder that says, "hey, you've been still for a while." Supermoo sends that nudge once an hour, and asks for just sixty seconds of standing or moving in return.
Prolonged sitting has its own effects on the body, separate from how much you exercise. Research suggests that breaking up long stretches of sitting with brief, regular standing or light movement helps your body function more like it's meant to through the day. The fix isn't a marathon; it's frequency. A minute, often, beats an hour, rarely.
If you want the studies and the details, they live on the science page →
A common guideline is to break up sitting roughly every 30 to 60 minutes with a short bout of standing or light movement. Supermoo nudges you once an hour to stand and move for about sixty seconds, and the interval is adjustable. What matters most is interrupting long unbroken stretches of sitting.
Not quite. A standing desk lets you stand, but most people settle into one position and forget to change it. A stand up reminder is the prompt that actually triggers the switch. The two work well together: the desk gives you the option, the reminder gives you the nudge.
Yes. Supermoo is a free stand up reminder app with no account and no ads, made by a nonprofit. It runs on iPhone, Android, Mac, Apple Watch, and Chrome.
It depends what you want. Supermoo is a free, no-account option that nudges you once an hour with a character named Moo. There are several other movement and break reminder apps with different approaches, listed plainly on the comparison page.
You're in control. You can change how often Moo nudges you, set quiet hours, and pause it entirely before a meeting or a workout. The goal is a helpful tap on the shoulder, not nagging.
It's free, there's no account, and it takes one tap to install. Your chair has had you long enough.