MotionCue Press Kit

Everything on this page may be used in coverage of MotionCue. Updated August 2026.

MotionCue is a calm nudge to actually stretch during your workday: one 30-second, expert-sourced move at a time, spaced through your day so it taps you on the shoulder without yanking you out of flow. Native iPhone + Apple Watch. Every stretch cites a real source (Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health, APTA) with a tappable citation. Ten visual themes, each with its own composed music. Local-first and private: no accounts, no ads, no data sold, and an honest up-front price.

What's new

Pacts (1.8). The social layer, rebuilt around one person instead of a crowd. A pact is one partner and one shared minute ("weekdays at 3"); both phones cue at the same moment, and every day you both move grows a shared watercolor garden. The garden never dies and never resets: a missed day only softens its color, and coming back revives it. You can water your partner's side twice a week, and instead of a stream of pings a pact sends one Sunday Letter, which contains no failure copy at all. The quietest possible week reads "The garden rested this week."

Stillness (1.9). Move Me nudges can now anchor to when you actually stopped moving rather than to the clock, so a nudge is far less likely to fire while you are already up and walking. It is opt-in, reads recent step counts only at the moment it plans a nudge, and stores, syncs and sends nothing. It came directly from a Product Hunt launch-day request.

Fast facts

Name MotionCue

Platforms iPhone + Apple Watch (native)

Price Free 14-day trial, then $4.99/month or $49/year

App Store apps.apple.com/us/app/motioncue

Website motioncue.fit

Contact hello@motioncue.fit

The story

MotionCue was built by Brian Bills of Lake Oswego, Oregon, an education consultant (principal of AcerLogic Educational Services). He is not a developer.

The deeper he fell down the AI rabbit hole, the more hours he spent hunched at his desk, and his body started sending invoices: stiff neck, tight shoulders, the hunch you only notice when you finally stand up. MotionCue is the app he built, over ten months and with AI tools as his only engineering team, to pay the tab.

Demo video

51 seconds, landscape 1080p. A vertical 14-second cut is below it.

Download landscape demo (MP4, 4.2 MB) · Download vertical cut (MP4, 0.8 MB)

Images

Click any image to open it full size. All are captures from the current build (1.9) or official marks. The Sunday Letter text is the app's own generated copy, not marketing writing.

App icon (1024) Hero card Circle card Pact card Home screen Library Circle Pact & garden Garden: grown vs faded Sunday Letter Move Me settings

Boilerplate

MotionCue is a stretch-break app for desk workers, native to iPhone and Apple Watch. It delivers one 30-second, expert-sourced stretch at a time, with tappable citations from organizations like the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, ten themed environments with in-house composed music, hydration tracking, and Circle, a small-group feature for keeping the habit with people you like, including pacts: one partner, one shared minute a day, and a shared watercolor garden that never dies. MotionCue is local-first and private: no accounts, no ads, no data sold. Free 14-day trial, then $4.99/month or $49/year. motioncue.fit