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Fact sheet

App Store title: Deskathon: Mouse Distance. Subtitle: Clicks, scroll & cursor miles.

Descriptions

One line

The private menu bar odometer for your Mac.

Short

Deskathon sits in your Mac’s menu bar and measures how far your pointer travels, on every display, plus clicks and scroll. It compares the numbers with landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge. Your statistics never leave your Mac.

Long

How far does your mouse go in a day? Deskathon tells you. It lives in the menu bar and measures how far your pointer travels, on every display, scaled by each screen’s real size. It counts clicks and draws a heat map for each display, and it measures how far you scroll. Every number becomes something you can picture: “about 1.3 times the Brooklyn Bridge” today, and “further than London to Paris” for your lifetime total.

History keeps your best days on record, and Lifetime turns your total into a trip between cities, with the Moon as the last stop. Deskathon has Small, Medium and Large widgets for the desktop and Notification Center, with a page of their own in the app, and share cards you can save as an image or send with the share sheet. A short welcome on first launch shows how it counts. It looks and behaves like a Mac app: one window with a sidebar that’s always there and Settings inside it, in light and dark. It speaks seven languages, English, Romanian, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, and has its own language picker.

It’s private by design. Your statistics never leave your Mac. There’s no account and no ads. Distance, clicks and scroll need no macOS permission. You can optionally count how many keys you press per hour; that’s off until you turn it on, counts only, and never reads which key you pressed.

Deskathon is free to use. Deskathon Pro, a one-time in-app purchase, opens the full history, past heat maps, larger widgets and every share card.

Features

Free

• Pointer distance today, this week and lifetime, on every display, in metric or imperial
• Landmark comparison with progress to the next landmark (“≈ 1.3× Brooklyn Bridge”, “Next: Golden Gate, 427 m to go”)
• Lifetime total as a trip (“Further than London → Paris”), with the next trip ahead
• Left, right and other clicks by hour, with a movement heat map and a click heat map for each display, today
• Scroll distance in meters and in pages, with sessions and the longest one
• Menu bar item with a live number and a panel: today’s distance on odometer drums and a measuring tape to the next landmark; open at login is optional
• Small widget, and a Widgets page in the app that shows every size and how to add it
• One share card (Today, square), saved as an image or shared with the share sheet
• History for the last 7 days, by day and week, for distance, clicks or scroll
• Display calibration, pause, CSV export and erase all data, never behind Pro
• A short animated welcome on first launch; English, Romanian, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, following the Mac or chosen in Settings
• Optional key counting per hour (off by default, counts only)

Pro, a one-time in-app purchase

• Full history: month and year views, any date, Records
• Heat maps for any past day, and 7- and 30-day views
• Medium and Large widgets
• Every share card: Today, This week and Lifetime, square and story

Pro unlocks views. It never gates counting or privacy controls, and everything is stored for everyone, so buying Pro reveals history the user already has.

Privacy

Deskathon keeps your statistics on your Mac. It has no accounts, no ads and no analytics SDKs. Pointer distance, clicks and scroll need no macOS permission. Heat maps are drawn on a neutral outline of each display, never a capture of the screen, so Deskathon needs no Screen Recording permission.

Keyboard counting is optional and off by default. Deskathon explains exactly what is counted before macOS shows its standard Input Monitoring prompt. It counts presses only: it never reads which key you pressed, what you type, your passwords, the order of keys or the app you’re typing in, and it stores one number per hour. You can turn it off and delete the counts at any time.

With the optional diagnostics off, Deskathon and its widgets make no network connections. After a crash, Deskathon asks before it sends a report. Error reports and anonymous usage counts are off until the user turns them on, and feedback is sent only when the user presses Send. None of them include the user’s statistics.

Claims you can check: the app’s entitlements are App Sandbox, App Group, network client (for the optional diagnostics) and user-selected files (for CSV export), with no Accessibility, Screen Recording, camera or microphone access.

About VPO Labs

VPO Labs is a one-person studio in Romania that makes native Mac software. Its apps include Widgetscape, desktop widgets for the Mac, and QR Studio, a QR code app on the Mac App Store. Deskathon is its measure of everyday computer use: private, playful and made for the menu bar.

Short version: VPO Labs is a one-person studio in Romania making native Mac apps, including Widgetscape, QR Studio and Deskathon.

[Owner: confirm the product list matches what is public on launch day]

Icon and screenshots

• App icon, 1024 px PNG, 190 KB
• App icon, 512 px PNG, 71 KB
• App icon, vector SVG, 7 KB

Screenshots

The Mac App Store screenshots of Deskathon 1.0, in English, with sample data only. Each link downloads the full image. Larger 2880 × 1800 versions and the six other languages are available on request.

• The menu bar panel: today’s distance on odometer drums, a tape to the next landmark, clicks, scroll and the last 7 days PNG, 1440 × 900, 1.0 MB
• Today in the main window: distance per display and by hour, clicks and scroll PNG, 1440 × 900, 312 KB
• Heat Map in dark appearance: clicks on an outline of a display PNG, 1440 × 900, 355 KB
• History: the last 7 days and the Records PNG, 1440 × 900, 323 KB
• Lifetime: the total as a trip between cities PNG, 1440 × 900, 319 KB
• Small, Medium and Large widgets PNG, 1440 × 900, 915 KB
• Three share cards: Today, This week and Lifetime PNG, 1440 × 900, 349 KB
• Settings › Privacy & Data, inside the main window: export, erase and the optional diagnostics, off PNG, 1440 × 900, 385 KB

Using the name and icon

• The name is Deskathon: one word, capital D, never hyphenated, in any language.
• The studio is VPO Labs.
• Use the icon as it is. Don’t recolor it, outline it or add effects.
• Brand colors: teal on graphite. Pointer teal #1F8C88 (light) and #4FE0D2 (dark).
• Deskathon isn’t a health, fitness or productivity tool. Please don’t describe it as one.
• “Mac” is a suffix: Deskathon for Mac.

How it was built

Deskathon was built by VPO Labs with AI assistance, and designed, reviewed and tested by the developer. The decisions, architecture records and compliance audits are written down and can be shared on request.

[Owner: keep only what is true for you, and say what you reviewed and tested, and on which Macs]

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