Pausette: Break Reminder
Rest your eyes, stretch often
Only for Mac
$1.99
Mac
Eye breaks and stretch breaks, counted only on time you actually spend at your computer. Waits for your calls, and Esc always ends a break.
A gentle break reminder that lives in your menu bar.
Pausette reminds you to rest your eyes and to get up and stretch, and it counts only the time you actually spend at your computer. A small ring in the menu bar fills up towards the next break.
TWO KINDS OF BREAK
• Eye breaks, after the 20-20-20 rule: every twenty minutes, twenty seconds looking at something far away.
• Stretch breaks: every fifty minutes, a few minutes to stand up and move.
Change how often and how long, or switch either off.
GENTLE, THEN FIRMER
When a break is due, a small card slides down from the menu bar with a short countdown and three choices: start now, in five minutes, or skip. If you let it run, the screen softly dims into the break itself, with a countdown ring and something to do with the time. Esc, Skip or Done always ends it. Nothing ever locks.
ONLY TIME AT YOUR COMPUTER COUNTS
Step away for as long as a break lasts and that counts as the break. Come back from lunch and the clocks have already started again, rather than greeting you with a reminder.
WAITS FOR YOUR CALLS
While any app is using a microphone, a break that falls due waits until the call is over. Pausette sees only that a microphone is in use, never what it hears, and needs no microphone permission.
TODAY AT A GLANCE
Click the ring to see when each break is due, take one early, pause for half an hour, an hour or until tomorrow, and see how many breaks you took, how many happened while you were away, and how long you have been at your computer today.
PRIVACY
No network access, no account, no tracking. Pausette notices only whether you are using your computer and whether a microphone is in use, and keeps today's count on your Mac.
Pausette is a reminder, not medical advice.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
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Information
- Seller
- Khang Nguyen
- Size
- 2.4 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- Copyright
- © Khang Azun
