Smart Wellness Reminders · Early Access · Mac & Windows

"Just one more thing."

Ctrl + P + ee = Pause. Pee. Proceed.

There's always one more thing.

A parent's call. A friend's birthday. The gym. An evening walk.
Something got pushed today. It always does.

$ sudo apt-get install work-life-balance
Error: Hydration not found. Human detected.
Suggest: ctrl-pee --force --now
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macOS 11+ Windows 10+
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working from home — slowly
disappearing from the things that mattered.

1 UTI

the wake-up call
that built this app.

"Let me finish one task" · said at 7pm. Ate at 10pm. Alone.
Missed kids' school function due to a meeting that could've been an email
"I'll call all my friends this week" · didn't happen
Forgot breakfast because of a production deployment
Weekend trip cancelled due to workload. Again.
Haven't called parents in 3 weeks
Got a UTI — months of "I'll take a break after this"
Missed a friend's birthday. Sent a message 2 days late.
"Just one more commit" · it was 1am. Kids were asleep.
Human hai, microservice nahi
Chai nahi — Paani piyo
Ship Code Not Kidney Stones
Your posture is a question mark
Sleep > Stack Overflow
The bug is not scared of you
"Let me finish one task" · said at 7pm. Ate at 10pm. Alone.
Missed kids' school function due to a meeting that could've been an email
"I'll call all my friends this week" · didn't happen
Forgot breakfast because of a production deployment
Weekend trip cancelled due to workload. Again.
Haven't called parents in 3 weeks
Got a UTI — months of "I'll take a break after this"
Missed a friend's birthday. Sent a message 2 days late.
"Just one more commit" · it was 1am. Kids were asleep.
Human hai, microservice nahi
Chai nahi — Paani piyo
Ship Code Not Kidney Stones
Your posture is a question mark
Sleep > Stack Overflow
The bug is not scared of you

Not just live longer — live better.

Sound familiar?

I'll join you in 5 minutes.

It's been 3 hours. They ate without you.

I'll be there for the school function.

You weren't. A meeting ran over. Your kid looked for you in the crowd.

I'll call everyone this week.

Three weeks later. Still haven't. Your parents don't say anything.

I'll book that trip this weekend.

Cancelled. Again. Work can wait, but it never does.

I'll eat after this deploy.

The deploy took 4 hours. You forgot breakfast. And lunch.

I'll take a break soon.

Not once. But day after day. The damage builds quietly — until your body has enough.

// why this exists

Built because
someone lived all of this.

A software developer with 12+ years of experience — working from home for over 5 of them. Fully focused. Genuinely passionate. The long hours felt earned, even right. What I didn't notice was how much of life was quietly slipping by.
Got a UTI. Not from one brutal day — but from months of quietly skipping most breaks. Every day: "I'll stretch after this." "I'll drink water soon." The damage builds so slowly you don't notice it. Until your body stops being polite.
Missed events. Lost touch with friends. Forgot to eat. Looked for an app — found stretch timers and Pomodoro clocks. None of them understood how people who work on screens actually work. None of them cared about the life outside it.
So Ctrl+Pee was built. Named after the keyboard shortcut we should all have been pressing years ago.
Ctrl + Pee For everyone who works too much and rests too little

Three steps to
actually showing up.

Install in seconds

Download for Mac or Windows. No accounts, no onboarding ritual. Lives in your menu bar, completely out of your way — until you need it.

macOS · Windows · Menu bar app

Tell us about your life

Family dinner at 7. School pickup at 3. Parents' call on Sunday. Guitar practice on Tuesdays. 5 minutes to set up. A lifetime of difference.

Syncs with Google Calendar

Focus. We've got the rest.

Smart nudges that know when you can actually stop — after a commit, after a build, never mid-debug. You get to be present. For real.

Dev-aware · Never annoying

What Ctrl+Pee
actually does.

Smart reminders that know when to interrupt you — and when not to. Built for how developers actually work.

  • Reminds you after commits, not during them
  • Syncs with your calendar automatically
  • Funny enough that you actually read them
  • Knows the difference between focused and idle
Ctrl+Pee 7:48 PM

Dinner was ready 45 minutes ago.

Your family is waiting. The bug can wait too.

Ctrl+Pee 3:20 PM

School ends in 10 minutes.

You said you'd pick them up. Close the IDE. Go.

Ctrl+Pee 4h 7m

Your bladder filed a P0.

No assigned reviewer. Severity: urgent. Please action immediately.

Not a break timer.
A life reminder.

People time blocking

Syncs your calendar. Surfaces family dinners, friend catch-ups, school events, and parents' calls before you accidentally miss them again. The people in your life deserve a slot — not just your sprints.

Only us

Reminders that actually land

Written for people who live on screens. "Your bladder filed a P0" lands harder than "time to hydrate." Smart, funny, and just annoying enough to work.

Core

Smart break detection

Reminds you after a commit, after a build, after a meeting — never mid-debug. Knows when you can actually stop, so it never interrupts flow. It respects your work.

Core

Hobby time guardian

Your evening walk. Your guitar. Your book. Block time for them and Ctrl+Pee protects it like a meeting that can't be cancelled — because it actually matters.

Only us

Body care reminders

Water every hour. Eyes off screen every 20 minutes. A 2-minute stretch every 90 mins. The small habits your body has been silently asking for — delivered right when you can actually do them.

Core

Desktop first, always

Mac and Windows. Lives in your menu bar. No phone to check. No app to open. It comes to you — right where you work, exactly when you need it.

Core

// your next break is overdue

The screen can wait.

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