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Dark Interface
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Reduced Motion
Exhale: Eye Rest Reminder
Break timer, blink, 20-20-20
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Your eyes have been open for four hours. They will not tell you.
Exhale sits in your menu bar and, every so often, darkens the screen for twenty seconds so your eyes can look at something further away than a monitor. That is the whole idea. Everything else exists so that you keep doing it.
WHY THIS ONE STICKS
Most break apps are switched off in week two, because they interrupt at the wrong moment and count an empty chair as work. Exhale is built around not doing that.
• It knows when you left. Step away for a few minutes and Exhale counts it as the rest it was, then starts the interval fresh. No break is waiting for you when you sit back down.
• It waits out your meetings. While your camera or microphone is in use, or a game is full-screen, the break holds. The menu bar tells you which rule is holding it.
• It warns first. A small countdown appears before the screen goes dark, so nothing you are typing is lost.
• It can be skipped. Slide to skip when you truly cannot stop. Exhale records that you did, and says nothing about it.
EYE BREAKS
Set how long you work and how long you rest. Twenty seconds every fifteen minutes is the usual advice; anything you keep is better than the perfect setting you turn off.
POSTURE AND WATER
Two small cards that know how long you have been in the same chair — not how long the app has been running. A nudge out of the chair, and a glass of water, on a rhythm you choose.
REMINDERS YOU WRITE YOURSELF
Your own words, an icon to match, and any schedule: every day, chosen weekdays, every few hours, or once at a time you pick. They arrive as a quiet card in the corner, and you mark them done or skip them.
AN HONEST HISTORY
A month of your days, minute by minute: when you were at the Mac, when you were away, which breaks you took and which you skipped. Drawn from what actually happened, not from what you meant to do.
PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
Exhale asks for no camera, microphone, screen-recording or accessibility permission, and macOS will never prompt you for one on its behalf. It reads only whether the system says a device is in use — never the audio, the video, or your screen. Your history stays on your Mac. There is no account and no sign-in. Optional iCloud sync mirrors your history through your own private iCloud database, which nobody but you can read.
Terms of Use: https://exhalemac.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://exhalemac.app/privacy
Requires macOS 14 or later.
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Reminders got faster to write and easier to put off.
• Write a reminder in one line — "Water the plants every 3 days at 9" — from the Reminders tab or a hotkey, anywhere on your Mac.
• Not now? Pick Later: in 15 minutes, this evening, tomorrow morning, after the weekend. Each choice shows the exact time.
The developer, KIRYL LIOTKA, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- KIRYL LIOTKA
- Size
- 4.5 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lifetime $39.99
- Yearly $24.99
- Monthly $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 KIRYL LIOTKA