Desk Goblin lives in your Mac’s menu bar and suggests tiny movement breaks. Work straight through them and a small creature comes looking for you.
Less than a coffee — and unlike the coffee, it makes you get up. One-time purchase, no subscription, no account.
One reminder, ignored all the way to the end.
Every 30, 45 or 60 minutes, inside the hours you actually work.
A small card suggests one tiny thing. Ten squats. A shoulder stretch. Standing up like a person.
Keep typing and the goblin comes out to find you. The longer you hold out, the harder it is to ignore.
How it ends is mostly up to you.
“hey.”
15s
“still working?”
30s
“desk human.”
45s
“we talked about this.”
60s
“Okay. You leave me no choice.”
80s
Those are seconds of continued typing, not wall clock. Step away and it stops climbing — the break already happened.
Twenty exercises, none over a minute, none needing equipment.
Decide how far it may go. Chill stays in the notification; Menace uses the whole ladder.
While your mic is live it sits down and saves the reminder for later.
Set your working hours and weekdays. Outside them the goblin sleeps.
Thirty minutes, an hour, or until tomorrow. No argument.
No Dock icon, no window to close. One glyph that changes as the day goes.
While your microphone is in use, everything dramatic is off. No walking, no growing, no takeover — just a small note that the reminder is waiting.
Desk Goblin
Pay once. The goblin is yours.
No. Desk Goblin is a one-time purchase. You pay once and keep the app.
Desk Goblin’s standard price is $12.99. The $4.99 is an introductory launch offer — the same app, not a cut-down version, and not a trial.
The standard price is $12.99. Desk Goblin is $4.99 right now as an introductory launch offer. There is no countdown on this page because there is no deadline to report — when the launch period ends, this page will simply show the new price. Whatever you pay today, you pay once.
Lemon Squeezy takes the payment and emails you a receipt with your licence key. That email also links to the download. You install Desk Goblin, open it, paste the key once, and that’s the last time licensing comes up.
One at a time. A licence activates a single Mac, and it moves with you: open Settings › License › Deactivate this Mac on the old machine to free the slot, then paste the same key on the new one. Buying a new Mac doesn’t mean buying the app again.
No. There is no sign-up, no password and no profile. After buying you get a licence key by email and paste it into the app once.
Yes. Reminders, exercises, the schedule and the goblin all run on your Mac with no network at all. The one exception is the licence check when you first activate.
No, and it can’t. Desk Goblin has no microphone permission — it never asks for one, and it never appears in System Settings under Privacy & Security › Microphone. To know when to stay quiet it reads a single piece of device state from macOS: whether an audio input device is currently running. There is no audio buffer anywhere in the app, so nothing is recorded, retained or transcribed.
Set it to Chill and it never leaves the reminder card — no desktop goblin, ever. Nudge (the default) lets it wander onto your desktop and get moderately bigger, but never take over. Menace allows the full ladder. Every stage can be dismissed instantly, and Escape always works.
Yes — thirty minutes, an hour, or until tomorrow, from the menu bar. While paused, nothing appears at all.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on both Apple silicon and Intel.
Email within 30 days and you get your money back. No form, no questions.
Less than a coffee, and it lasts longer than the caffeine. One-time purchase, no subscription, no account.
