Niyora

Calm in 60 seconds.

A quiet menu-bar companion for your Mac. It watches the rhythm of your day, then nudges you to breathe right before stress takes hold.

Download for macOS How it works
Free. Open source. Nothing leaves your Mac.
The smart stress analyzer

It nudges you. You don't have to remember.

Niyora reads passive signals on your Mac and computes a live Niyora Index. When the day gets dense, the next reminder comes sooner. When you're in flow, it stays out of your way.

90 min

Continuous screen time. The longer you go, the gentler the nudge.

Meetings

Detects when your mic is live. Counts back-to-back calls.

Switching

Tracks app context shifts in the last 30 minutes.

After hours

Knows when work has spilled past 6pm. Suggests a soft landing.

Pace

Reads keystroke and click rates without ever logging keys.

Flow

If you're locked in on one app, it waits longer before interrupting.

Your soul, your way

Five states. Fourteen practices. Sound that breathes with you.

As you practice, your soul brightens through five tiers. Each tier unlocks more advanced techniques, so the app grows with you instead of overwhelming you on day one.

Spark Glow Shine Radiance Brilliance

Breathing

  • Box Breath
  • Ocean Breath (Ujjayi)
  • Cooling Breath (Sheetali)
  • Alternate Nostril (Naadishodhana)
  • Left Nostril
  • Belly Breath (Diaphragmatic)
  • Wind Down (4-7-8)

Mindfulness

  • Be Kind to Yourself
  • Let It Drift
  • Bring Someone to Mind
  • Hold Yourself
  • Kind Words
  • Five Senses
  • Soft Gaze (Trataka)

Each session is paired with ambient sound. Ocean, forest, or soft pads, fading in as you start, fading out as you finish.

Research backed

Every practice has a paper behind it.

No mystic claims. Just techniques validated in peer-reviewed research, clearly cited so you can read the source.

Box Breathing
Used in Navy SEAL training. Lowers cortisol, improves HRV.
4-7-8 Breath
Activates parasympathetic nervous system. Weil, A. Spontaneous Healing.
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Ma et al, 2017. Reduces stress and negative affect.
PSS-4 Check-in
Cohen, 1983. Validated 4-item perceived stress scale.
Trataka (Soft Gaze)
Improves attention and selective focus. Talwadkar et al, 2014.
Self-Compassion
Neff, 2003. Linked to reduced anxiety and rumination.
Privacy, locally

Nothing leaves your Mac. Ever.

Most wellness apps want your account, your data, and a server log of your worst days. Niyora wants none of it.

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No accounts

Open the app. Start breathing. That is the entire onboarding.

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No telemetry

The app makes zero outbound network requests of its own. Verifiable in source.

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Local storage

Sessions and check-ins live in your app container. Never read off-device.

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Open source

Read every line on GitHub. Trust through transparency, not promises.

From the founder

"I built Niyora because I needed it. Long days at the screen, back to back calls, the kind of stress that creeps in before you notice. I wanted something quiet that just helped, without asking for my data or my attention."

Neha Prasad. Founder, Niyora.

Take the next breath.

It takes a minute to install. Sixty seconds to feel different.

Download for macOS
Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 10.15 and later.