No window and no background. Only the figure stands on your screen, and you can drag it wherever you like.
Free and open source · Windows 10/11 · בעברית
Desk Break
A tiny workout while your computer works
Most of my day is spent waiting for the computer. I give Claude a task and it works for a minute, two, sometimes ten. I used to just sit there and stare at the screen.
So I built myself a small wooden mannequin that stands in the corner of the screen. Every time I'm waiting, it shows me one exercise. When I'm done, I click it and it moves on to the next one.
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Thirty seconds, with a wooden mannequin
The narration is in Hebrew. The mannequin needs no translation.
How it works
Hover over it
See the exercise and how far along you are. It counts your reps from the movement itself, and timed exercises get a timer.
Click it
A panel opens with full instructions, reps and speed you can change, and a button for the next exercise. Ctrl+Alt+N does the same from any app.
In the way? Shrink it
Turn it into a small wooden head, tuck it into the edge of the screen, or hide it completely. It comes back from the icon by the clock.
This is the app itself, not a picture. Try "Next exercise".
435 exercises, all of them open
It starts with 15 quick moves for people who sit at a computer all day: neck, shoulders, wrists, a little for the back.
Then it grew. The library now has 435 exercises in 11 categories, from chair exercises to yoga. You choose what goes into your set, and for each exercise you can change the reps, the time and the speed.
Neck, shoulders & arms 42Back & spine 36Hips & legs 40
Low-impact cardio 30Balance 26Seated on a chair 55
Seated on the floor 40Lying down & on all fours 46Yoga 46
Dance & hip hop 35Funny 39
This is the library itself, the same one that's in the app. Pick a category on the side, then an exercise to see it large with its instructions.
Building something? Take the animations
Free exercise animations with a rig are hard to find, so all 435 are open under the MIT license, commercial use included. One 8 MB GLB with every clip for three.js, Unity, Unreal or Godot, the same as a Blender file with one action per exercise, and a JSON with names, categories, instructions and tempo.
The rig is simple on purpose: 15 bones, no fingers and no IK. It is easy to drop into a web page or a game, and less suited to detailed hand animation.
And there's a funny category
Drop the mouse, a stage dive, a backflip, a dance for when the code finally works. Not every break has to be an exercise. Sometimes it's enough to smile for a second and get back to work.
The dances have a tempo you can match to the song you're listening to.
Open source and free
Everything is on GitHub: the app, the wooden figure and all 435 animations. The app speaks English and Hebrew and follows your computer's language, and you can switch it in the settings.
To install, download one file and double-click it. The app isn't code-signed yet, so the first time Windows shows a blue screen saying "Windows protected your PC". It isn't a virus warning, it only means the app is new. Click "More info", then "Run anyway". I scanned the file with Windows Defender and it's clean.
This isn't medical advice. The exercises are gentle and meant as a short refresh. If something hurts, stop and move on to the next one, and if you have back or joint problems, ask a doctor or physiotherapist which moves suit you.