Introducing Acostarse: A bedtime reminder app for Mac.
- Om Chachad
- Jun 5
- 3 min read
Earlier this week, on June 1st, Starlight Apps celebrated its 2nd anniversary. This is a huge milestone for us, and we’re releasing a special app as a celebration and marking the start of a revised vision for apps to come.
Introducing Acostarse.
Setting up sleep schedules is quite easy, but sticking to them—not so much. Work often gets in the way at night as you type away on your Mac, and you often forget when it’s time for bed. Acostarse is designed to completely take over your Mac screen and nudge you to go to bed, as soon as it’s your pre-decided bedtime. The app itself is rather simple, yet it’s incredibly effective.
By taking over your entire screen, Acostarse presents an alert that can’t possibly go unnoticed, encouraging mindfulness as you spend more time on your Mac.
One of the key goals when designing Acostarse was for it to be simple and intuitive. Everything from the onboarding experience to the main alert is designed to be minimal, pleasant, and mindfulness-inducing. Setting up the app is effortless and takes under a minute before it blends into your Mac’s background processes, and only comes into play when it’s bedtime again.
Acostarse comes with the ability to ask for a few extra minutes to close off work after it’s bedtime, but if you believe you’re someone who would inadvertently overuse it to delay sleep, you can enable Strict Mode to get rid of the delay option—forcing you to go to bed when Acostarse kicks in.
Acostarse is also Starlight Apps’ first app to be fully localized beyond English. It will be available in Spanish and English right from day 1, with plans for supporting more languages in the future. As a fun fact, “Acostarse” is a Spanish word for the action of going to bed—making it only fitting to ship with a Spanish-localized version.
Here’s a quick roundup of everything that’s shipping with version 1.0 of Acostarse.
This is only the beginning of a feature-packed app with many more features to come, including an iOS app and Intelligent Breakthrough features that we’re just as excited about. Here’s quick look at the roadmap, as can be found in the app’s settings:
Here are a few words from our Chief Software Developer, Om Chachad:
“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something I call Intentional Computing. It’s the process of using your computer with complete mindfulness and a focus of exactly what you’re doing. In its essence, it is about using a computer only when you need it—rather than using it until you don’t. I have a lot more to share on this topic over the course of the coming months, but Acostarse marks the beginning of Starlight Apps’ extended efforts into bringing my vision of Intentional Computing to life. As we step into the third year of Starlight Apps’ journey, I’m looking forward to bringing to you utilities that help you get things done on your technology, not just efficiently but also mindfully.” - Om Chachad, Chief Software Developer
As always, Starlight Apps is committed to providing free apps and contributing to the open-sourced community. Acostarse joins the lineup as the fourth open-sourced app from Starlight Apps. If you find Acostarse being a meaningful and valuable addition to your workflow, we encourage you to leave a tip in the app’s tip jar to help its development—it goes a long way in sustaining our efforts.
Acostarse is available starting today on the Mac App Store worldwide—available in English and Spanish.
Additionally, the Press Kit for Acostarse is also now available. Please reach out to contact@starlightapps.org for any further quieries or clarification.
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