Who we are
Calmsides builds apps and workshops for a healthier way to work and live.
We are an independent company from Germany, founded in 2026. We build apps for everyday life and advise companies on healthy ways of working. We support teams and leaders in putting them into practice. We are financed solely by our apps and services.
- Founded 2026
- Based in Germany
- First app: Pausean, in the App Store
- For every method, we say where it comes from
What we do
Two areas, one approach.
We build apps.
Apps for the situations in which work and everyday life become too much. Each app is based on one simple method and does one job, for example helping you focus without being distracted by your phone. For anyone who wants to live and work in a healthier way.
We advise and support companies.
Our themes are healthy ways of working, communication and collaboration, healthy leadership, New Work and change management. We support teams and leaders with workshops, a leadership programme and coaching, and we accompany change in the organisation over several months. We do not prescribe the rules: each team works out its own, and after six weeks we check whether they are kept and whether they work in daily practice.
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Why
Many people live and work at a pace that makes them ill over time.
Always being reachable, handling many tasks at once, hardly switching off after work: for many people this is everyday life, at work and at home. Short pauses help in the moment. For anything to change, the way we live and work has to change too.
That is why Calmsides exists. We want to help people live and work at a healthy pace. For everyday life we build apps, and with companies we work on how they work.
In everyday life, it means handling your own time and attention with intention, for example an hour of focused work while the phone lies face down, or ending the working day on purpose. At work, it takes more than pauses: clear priorities and time for focused work, meetings that end with a decision, leadership that gives direction, and change in which the people affected have a say.
Principles
Whether it is an app, a workshop or coaching: three things always apply.
You know what you get.
More focus, more time, more calm, or a decision that was hard before. For every app and every service, you know in advance what it is for.
You decide.
You choose what to use, when and how often. Our apps are built so that you do not use them longer than necessary. In our workshops, each team sets its own rules. We offer methods; we do not impose them.
Your data stays with you.
Your notes and answers in our apps stay on your device. What you say in a coaching session stays confidential, including towards your employer.
The founder
Ali Yasar founded Calmsides and runs the company. He is a consultant with an academic background in philosophy and neuroscience and supports companies in transformation and organisational projects.
In this work he has seen that it is not the pace of change that weighs on people, but the way it is carried out. It becomes difficult when changes are not coordinated, have no clear structure and are decided without the people they affect. They succeed when employees are involved early and can help shape them.
This raised the question of what people need to live and work in a healthy way. At work, it is above all a say, participation and a healthy working environment: clear structures, time for focused work and time to recover. In private life, it is slowing down: using one’s own time consciously, staying with one thing and being able to switch off.
With Calmsides he brings both together: advising and supporting companies that want to create these conditions, and apps that help people slow down in everyday life. He tries every method Calmsides offers himself first.
Newsletter
One method for healthy work, regularly by email.
You regularly receive one method you can use the next day, on your own or with your team, plus news from our apps. You can unsubscribe at any time with one click.