Crane runs entirely on each person's machine. No accounts, no cloud service, no webcam footage leaving the laptop — and one payment per seat instead of another monthly subscription. Volume discounts start at five seats.
Musculoskeletal disorders are not a fringe workplace risk. They are the second-largest category of work-related ill health in Great Britain, behind only stress and anxiety — and unlike most workplace hazards, the exposure is continuous, invisible, and lasts the entire working day.
The standard responses — a chair budget, a one-off ergonomic assessment, a poster by the kettle — all share the same weakness. They happen once, and then the working day resumes exactly as before. Nobody is in the room at 3pm when a developer has been folded over a laptop for two hours straight.
Crane is in the room. It watches posture continuously through the webcam the machine already has, and it interrupts — quietly, at the desk — when posture drifts. That is the whole difference between an ergonomics policy and an ergonomics habit.
Most companies end up stitching together a break reminder, a stretching prompt, and something for stress — three subscriptions, three logins, three things nobody opens after week two. Crane is one application that covers all three, and it runs in the tray rather than in a browser tab.
On-device pose estimation (TensorFlow.js running MoveNet) tracks head position, shoulder alignment and forward lean, and sends a gentle desktop notification when posture drifts. It is not a timer that fires whether you are sitting well or badly — it responds to what is actually happening.
Fifteen profiles schedule sitting, standing, walking, stretching and exercise across the working hour, based on occupational-health research rather than a round number someone liked. Teams can standardise on one profile or let people choose their own.
Nine breathing patterns for the stress side of desk work, built into the same app and the same cycle — not a separate wellness subscription with its own onboarding email.
Crane ships on the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store, as well as directly from crane.blue. Both store listings have been through Apple's and Microsoft's own review processes, which is a meaningful signal for a security team looking at a vendor they have never heard of.
Every serious conversation about Crane in a workplace starts here, and it should. An application that watches employees through their cameras is exactly the kind of thing a privacy officer is paid to stop. So here is precisely what Crane does, and how your own people can confirm it without taking our word for anything.
Full detail is in the privacy policy. If your security team has a questionnaire, send it — we will answer it honestly, including the parts where the answer is "we do not have that yet."
Crane is a one-time purchase per seat, not a subscription. There is no renewal date, no per-user monthly fee, and no price that changes after the first year. Volume discounts apply from five seats.
| Team size | Discount | Per seat | Example total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–4 seats | — | $54.99 | 4 seats — $219.96 |
| 5–24 seats | −10% | $49.49 | 10 seats — $494.90 |
| 25–99 seats | −20% | $43.99 | 25 seats — $1,099.75 |
| 100+ seats | Let's talk | Quoted | Tell us your number |
Indicative pricing in USD, before any local tax. Seats are permanent: a licence you buy this year still works in five years, on that many machines, with no further payment. If your finance process needs something specific — a formal quote document, a purchase order reference, a particular currency — say so in the form below and we will confirm what we can do before you commit to anything.
Crane is a small company's product, and the honest version of the deployment story matters more to you than a polished one. Here is exactly what happens after a purchase.
Each person installs Crane — from the Microsoft Store, the Mac App Store, or the direct download — and enters the licence key we send you. Each key works on up to five machines, which covers a laptop plus a desk setup without any extra admin. Nobody needs to create an account, so there is nothing for you to provision, and nothing to clean up when somebody leaves beyond reassigning their key.
No silent MDM deployment. There is no Intune package, Jamf profile or Apple Business Manager VPP distribution today. For a forty-person rollout, that means one email containing forty keys and roughly five minutes of setup per person — genuinely fine at this scale, genuinely annoying at four hundred. If you need managed deployment, tell us; it moves up the list when a real buyer needs it.
No completed security questionnaire or VPAT on file. We have not yet been through a formal accessibility conformance assessment or pre-answered a standard security review. What we can do is answer yours directly and specifically, and point your team at behaviour they can verify themselves.
No admin console. There is no central place to see who has installed Crane or how they are using it. That is a direct consequence of storing nothing centrally — the same design decision that makes the privacy story simple makes central reporting impossible.
We would rather you read that list before buying than discover it afterwards.
Crane fits public-sector desk environments well on the substance: it is a local application with no cloud dependency, no personal data collection and no account infrastructure, which removes most of the questions that normally stall a software approval.
Where it does not yet fit is process. There is no established procurement vehicle, no completed VPAT, and no framework agreement. If your organisation requires those before a purchase can proceed, we are being straight with you: today the realistic path is a small departmental purchase rather than an organisation-wide rollout. If you want to start that conversation anyway, we are glad to — and we will tell you early if we cannot meet a requirement, rather than late.
Tell us the shape of your team and we will come back within one working day with a price, the licence keys you would receive, and an honest answer on anything we cannot do.
By email, as a list of keys. Each key activates on up to five machines. You hand one key to each person; there is no portal to log into and no seat management console, because there is no account system behind it.
Their key is yours, not theirs. Deactivate it on their machine and reissue it to whoever replaces them — the five-device allowance covers the handover comfortably.
Standard checkout is by card, and it produces a receipt you can expense. If your finance team requires a formal invoice or a PO reference, mention it in the form — we will tell you what is possible before you commit, rather than promising a process we have not run before.
No. One payment per seat, permanently. There is no renewal, no maintenance fee and no upgrade charge.
Yes, and we would encourage a pilot before any purchase. Every install gets seven days with every feature unlocked, no account and no card. Put it on five desks for a week and see whether people keep it running — that will tell you more than any quote will.
Yes. Posture detection, ergonomic cycles and breathing all run offline. Network access is used only for licence validation and store updates.
The application ships in 21 languages, so a distributed team is not forced into English.