Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pust for macOS
Minimalist breathing overlay for Mac
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Eyes-free breathwork guided by haptic pulses on Apple Watch
Feb 2026 · mhjapps.com · its alternatives →
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Breva▲108Turn your Mac trackpad into a gentle breathing guide
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (https://www.pi-a.io) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU. My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were…
2023 · lungy.app · its alternatives →
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NothingHere▲297A MacOS panic button where one key press cleans your screen
Mar 2026 · solee0524.github.io · its alternatives →
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LookAway 2▲281Hello, I'm Kushagra and I am the indie developer behind LookAway (I've posted about it earlier but it has received quite a lot of updates since the last time so I am posting it again). LookAway is a native break reminder for macOS that doesn't interrupt. I built it because I work from home and I spend a lot of time in front of my screens. It's very easy for me to get lost in the flow and I can end up sitting for hours. Due to this, I started facing issues like eye strain and back pain by the end of the day. The solution to this was simply taking enough breaks throughout the day. But…
Apr 2026 · lookaway.com · its alternatives →
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I built a terminal app that paces slow breathing at 6 breaths per minute for vagal tone training. It's a single Python file, stdlib only, no dependencies — just run breathe and follow the bar. I'm a cardiology patient (HFrEF). Slow breathing at resonance frequency is one of the few non-pharmacological interventions shown to improve cardiac vagal tone and baroreflex sensitivity (Bernardi et al., Circulation 2002; Lancet 1998). I wanted a frictionless daily habit tool — no app store, no account, no subscription, just open terminal and go. Design constraints, all grounded in the clinical…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Form good habits & save the most of your time, anywhere.
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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TopNotch▲271Makes the new MacBook Pro notch disappear like a Ninja
2021 · topnotch.app · its alternatives →
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Feel breathing through MacBook trackpad pulses
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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GlowPulse▲109Your Mac's camera is now a heart-rate sensor
Jun 2026 · glowpulse.cc · its alternatives →
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GentleLimit▲99Mindful screen time for macOS without blocking apps
Mar 2026 · lucidbit.app · its alternatives →
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Focast▲16Timers and natural soundscapes, built for deep focus.
Feb 2026 · gofocast.com · its alternatives →
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Pulsetto▲118Reduce stress, improve sleep & relax in under 4 minutes
2023 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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A bit more context - the cloth sim is part of my app, Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). It's designed to be an active meditation / relaxation app, so you can play relaxing instruments in space and immersive breathing exercises. The original Lungy is a breathing app available for iOS, that uses real-time breathing with interactive visuals. The cloth sim is a Verlet integration, running on a regular grid. For now, I have tried a couple of different cloth scenes - a sort of touch reactive 'pad', where different parts of the cloth are mapped to different sounds and a cloth that blows…
2024 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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