An elastic tether
Haul it out. Feel it resist. Let go early and it fires back like a catapult.
The honest competitor
It's this or
your phone.
At minute forty, your hand reaches for something. A phone takes your eyes, ears and the next ten minutes with it.
Tether gives the restless bit of you a side quest that ends the instant somebody says your name.
Minute 40Your hand needs a job
The phone
3 new messages
doom scroll
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10:00attention gone
Wait, what was the question?
Tether
Still here.zero minutes lost
Drop it the instant somebody says your name.
listening, technically
Choose your accomplice
Seven balls.
Zero objectives.
Each has its own personality. Pick one and give it a spin.
Your desktop is the playground
Your desktop has
gravity now.
The ball treats your actual windows as surfaces. It lands on your calendar, rolls along the edge, then drops off the end.
Still windows become ledges and walls. Move one and it can lift, nudge or leave the ball behind, without gluing it to the window.
A suspicious amount of physics
It only does one thing. It does it absurdly well.
Cut it loose
Slice the rope and let the ball roam your whole desktop.
Keepie-uppie
Tap it back up while appearing to consider the roadmap.
Magnet mode
It chases your cursor around without needing another click.
Tune the chaos
Adjust gravity, bounce, size, rope and magnet behaviour until it feels right.
Bring friends
Add more balls. They collide with each other and everything else.
Built to behave at work
The fun stops
when you do.
Tether never takes over the meeting. Your apps keep focus, your desktop keeps working, and one shortcut makes the whole thing disappear.
Never steals focus
Clicks pass through everywhere except the ball and visible rope.
⌥F to vanish
One key and it's gone. Another and it drops back out.
Silent by design
All the physical satisfaction, none of the meeting-room noise.
Your ball, specifically
6,407
bounces
Roughly eight meetings. Seven could have been an email.
A tally, not a score
A lifetime count
of doing nothing.
Every throw, ricochet and accidental launch joins one long-running total. No streaks, targets or performance reviews.
Nothing to log into. Nothing synced. Just a small, local record of how thoroughly you've tested gravity.
Six gestures. No manual.
Drop it from the menu barclick icon
Drag, throw, flingdrag
Paddle it back uptap
Load the elasticclick + drag
Snap the ropepull hard
Put it away⌥F
Fair questions
Before you invite a ball
onto your desktop.
What is Tether, actually?
A ball on an elastic rope hanging from your Mac's menu bar. Drag it, throw it, cut it loose and bounce it off your windows. That's the app.
Does it get in the way?
No. It doesn't steal focus, and clicks pass through everywhere except the ball and visible rope. Press ⌥F and it disappears instantly.
Why not just use my phone?
Your phone takes you out of the room. Tether gives your hands something to do while your ears stay in the meeting.
What data does it collect?
None. No account, telemetry or cloud. Your bounce count stays on your Mac.
Does it make any noise?
No. The ball can hit a window at unreasonable speed and your colleagues will remain blissfully unaware.
Do I have to be in a meeting?
No. Tether has no relationship with your calendar and no respect for business hours.
What happens if I cut the rope?
The ball becomes free-range and starts bouncing around your desktop. Reattach it whenever the experiment has gone far enough.
Is this productivity software?
Absolutely not. It may, however, stop you opening your phone and losing ten minutes to a man restoring a rusty toaster.
One small purchase
$4.99.
No subscription
for a ball.
Pay once. Keep it forever. Enjoy the fact that a needlessly convincing physics engine now lives in your menu bar.
$4.99 once, forever
- Seven balls and full physics controls
- Window ledges and collisions
- Instant show and hide
- Built for macOS 14 and later
- No account, telemetry or cloud
macOS 14+ · one-time purchase