touch grass

Download Touch Grass for Mac

Free, notarized, and about a minute to set up. Grab the latest disk image and you’re moments away from your first break.

Download for Mac

Free · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Requirements

  • macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
  • Apple Silicon or Intel
  • A few megabytes of disk — it’s a tiny menu-bar app

Install

  • Download the latest TouchGrass-x.y.z.dmg from the download button above (it points at GitHub Releases).
  • Open the disk image and drag Touch Grass into your Applications folder.
  • Launch it from Applications — look for the sprout in your menu bar. There’s no Dock icon.

The first run

Want to see it work safely? Set a tiny limit and break length in Settings and trigger a quick break. While a break is on, the overlay covers every display and Cmd-Tab is paused for its duration — that’s intentional. It always clears itself on its own timer, and quitting mid-break just resumes the remaining time on relaunch.

To recognize AI websites, macOS will ask once per browser for permission to read the active-tab URL. That read happens locally and never leaves your Mac — see privacy for the details.

Updating & uninstalling

  • Update: download the newer DMG and drag the new app over the old one in Applications.
  • Uninstall: quit from the menu bar (or killall TouchGrass), then drag Touch Grass from Applications to the Trash. Nothing keeps running in the background.

New here? Read how it works, skim the FAQ, or view the source on GitHub.