Verta lives in your menu bar, watches your posture with your webcam, and gently nudges you when you start to slouch. All on-device - nothing ever leaves your Mac.
NEW 1.1 is here — daily pain journal proves whether posture is what hurts you.Forward-head posture costs your spine around 10 extra pounds of load for every inch of drift. Verta catches it the moment you start slipping.
Your head creeps forward across hours of deep work. By 4pm your neck aches and you don't remember when it started.
A quiet nudge as you begin to slouch. You correct without thinking. Your menu bar shows a live score.
Verta doesn't yell at you. It learns your neutral posture, then shows you - with a glance at your menu bar - how you're doing.
Apple's Vision framework analyses each frame locally at 30 FPS. Frames are never saved or uploaded.
A 10-second calibration learns your upright neutral. Thresholds are relative to you - not a generic body.
Verta gets out of the way when another app uses your camera or mic. No pings during Zoom or Meet.
Hour-by-hour scores, weekly trends, per-app breakdown and a correlation between your posture and your morning pain score.
Glance at a second monitor and Verta knows it's a head-turn, not a slump. No false alerts when you're just looking sideways.
Optional always-on-top panel with your live score, a compact camera preview, and zone status. Right-click to snap to any screen corner.
A face-mesh overlay tracks your head pose in real time. Dots light up red the instant you drift, green when you return to your baseline. Background blur keeps the world behind you out of frame.
It's a mirror that quietly tells you the truth about your posture.
A tiny colored ring in your menu bar shows your live posture score. Green when you're dialed in, amber when you're drifting, red when you've been off for a while.
No window to open, no notification shouting at you. Just a glance.
Hourly posture scores across your day. Weekly trends. A breakdown of which apps you slouch in most. ("You lose 30 min of good posture a day in Slack.")
Not surveillance. Pattern recognition - for yourself.
Every posture app asks you to trust that slouching is bad for you. Verta does something different: it takes a 2-second pain check-in from you each morning, and after a week or two it shows you - with your own data - whether your posture actually predicts your pain.
Tap 0–10 on how your body feels, pick any areas (neck, shoulders, headache…), done.
A 1-day lag is honest physiology - waking pain reflects the load you put on your neck yesterday, not today.
"Strong correlation (r = 0.72). Your bad-posture days are followed by painful mornings. Worth taking the breaks."
Self-reports over time, not medical diagnosis. For persistent pain, see a qualified clinician.
Verta has no server. No analytics. No account. Face detection runs through Apple's Vision framework entirely on-device. The only network call we make is Sparkle's auto-updater asking if a new version exists.
A 45-second check. We take your screen habits and activity level and estimate the "age" of your spine. Most people are 5–15 years older than they think.
This is a self-check, not a medical diagnosis. For persistent pain, see a qualified clinician.
Try free for 3 days, no card required. Pay once if you want to keep it. UK pricing shown; your local currency and VAT are added at checkout.
Use Verta for 12 months. No subscription, no auto-renew.
Verta forever. All future versions included.
Same app. Bulk licences, one invoice, volume pricing from 5 seats.
Buy N seats in one go. Share the keys with your team however works - no per-user sign-up required.
Pay annually from a single finance contact. VAT-registered invoice from a UK company (Readler Ltd).
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No. Frames are analysed instantly and discarded. Nothing is saved, and nothing is uploaded.
Yes - any camera macOS exposes. Verta defaults to the built-in camera on laptops and the selected camera otherwise.
Not reliably at laptop-camera distance - shoulders are usually cropped or inconsistent. Verta focuses on what it can measure accurately: head pose, face position, and drift from your baseline.
Vision framework is highly optimised. Expect roughly 2–4% extra battery drain per hour of monitoring on Apple Silicon.
No. Download Verta, try it for 3 days, and only buy a licence if you want to keep using it. No auto-charges, no surprise renewals.
The 1-year licence costs less upfront and lets you use Verta for 12 months - after that the app stops working until you buy again. The lifetime licence costs more but never expires and includes every future update. If you plan to stick with Verta more than about 2½ years, lifetime is cheaper overall.
No. Both licences are one-time purchases. You won't be billed again unless you choose to buy another licence.
One Mac per licence. If you want Verta on a second Mac, you'll need a separate licence.
Tap a 0–10 score in the morning, optionally pick an area (neck, shoulders, headache…). Verta pairs each entry with the previous day's posture data and, after about a week, shows you the correlation - a personal chart that tells you whether your posture genuinely predicts your pain. Entries are stored on your Mac alongside everything else Verta records. Nothing is uploaded.
No. Verta is a productivity and wellness tool, not medical advice. Please see a qualified clinician for persistent pain.
30-day, no-questions money-back on every purchase. Full policy here.
We spend hours every day at a screen. Verta is there, quietly, to make sure those hours don't cost you your spine.
3-day free trial - no card · One-time purchase · 30-day money-back