Your Day. Your Rules. Your Rest. Most productivity apps tell you when to work. BreakMode empowers you to decide when to rest. Designed for busy remote workers, students, and parents, BreakMode is the smart auto-calendar app that inserts fully customized, user-driven breaks directly into your Google and iOS Calendars based on your unique criteria. No rigid cycles. Just automated sanity shaped by you. WHY BREAKMODE? We get stuck at our desks, lose track of time, and look up at 4 PM realizing we haven't stood up or seen sunlight in six hours. That isn't a deep focus state, it is just plain burnout. BreakMode acts as a direct shield for your time. It steps in so you can step away, because small breaks make big days better. Taking a break shouldn't feel like extra work. HOW IT WORKS Set it and forget it. Complete our personalized onboarding profiling, securely connect your calendars, and define your "Open-Ended" break rules. Our custom algorithm scans your live schedule and intelligently carves out recovery slots exactly where they fit. CORE FEATURES: • CUSTOM OPEN-ENDED BREAKS: You control the parameters. Decide your minimum and maximum break lengths, what days you want to use the app, and your preferred time windows. The app takes care of the scheduling for you. • REAL-TIME CALENDAR SYNC: Works natively with iOS Apple Calendar and Google Calendar. • OVERRIDE LOCKOUT: Protect yourself from chronic burnout. Turn on the Lockout feature to temporarily disable accidental or impulsive break deletions when you are stressed. • SIMPLE PROGRESS DASHBOARD: Quickly see how many breaks you took, what got shifted, and look at your daily habit consistency without any guilt or judgment. Stop letting your calendar run your life. Download BreakMode today and make your schedule work for you.

We’ve been deep in the trenches rewiring the calendar connections. We are emerging with some massive functional wins for the "Anti-Flow" movement, ripping out messy, silent failure points and replacing them with pure, deterministic logic. 1. Google OAuth: Finally a True Two-Way Street We performed open-heart surgery on our mobile browser handshakes to fix the "connecting" hangs and ensure total data parity with external servers. -The Quick-Poll Safety Loop: If a user accidentally closes or dismisses the authentication browser right at the finish line, the app doesn't panic and fail anymore. googleCalendarAuth.ts now triggers a quick-polling loop (5 rapid checks over ~10s) to successfully grab the completed state anyway. -Smart Permission Validation: Added deep checks to ensure all requested calendar permission scopes are checked. If a user unchecks an API scope during Google's consent step, the server catches it cleanly, blocks silent background data breaks, and returns an INSUFFICIENT_SCOPES warning banner that you can tap to instantly restart the flow. 2. iOS 17+ Boundary Protection Apple's newer privacy rules try to hide things from our scheduling engine, so we built tight visual guardrails to fight back. -Catching "Add-Only" Traps: In iOS 17+, users could select "Add Only" access, which tells our app it has calendar permission but yields exactly zero readable calendars. The app now handles this edge case as a hard denial. It throws an explicit call-to-action redirecting you to System Settings ("BreakMode -> Full Access") instead of running blindly on an empty screen view. -Proactive Pre-Flight Scans: The background scheduling worker now runs a proactive permission verification checklist before firing. If local access hooks are missing, it bails out early with warning logs instead of executing a silent breakdown. 3. iPad Support & Layout Scalability -Rebuilt our custom Expo config plugins to explicitly force target UIDeviceFamily: [1, 2]. This natively maps tablet compilation alongside your iPhone layout. -Enabled UIRequiresFullScreen in the platform Info.plist. iPads now run in a forced, symmetrical full-screen viewport, crushing orientation clipping and sailing cleanly through standard App Store submission checks. -Re-balanced screen padding on our welcome panels so compact hardware like the iPhone SE renders perfectly without crowded text or overlapping headers. 4. UI Polish Cleaned up our tab selectors and view headers from "Today's Breaks" to a single, accurate term: "Breaks." Now, when you navigate through alternative calendar dates, the wording remains completely true.

What’s New in BreakMode: The "Guardrails & Reactive Logic" Edition We’ve been deep in the trenches rewiring the scheduling engine's decision cores over the last few weeks. We're emerging with some serious architectural wins for the "Anti-Flow" movement, replacing messy view math with pure, deterministic logic. 1. Instant Defense Against Meeting Creep Your calendar is a moving target, so we built a real-time reactive observer loop inside pendingConflictRef. Ghost Fighting: The second an external appointment shifts onto an existing break block, the TodayScreen catches it instantly. Auto-Pilot Recovery: The app connects directly to native notification listeners to find open slots, deploying the overhauled ConflictResolutionSheet to hand you smart, automated recommendations. No manual time-grid sliding required. 2. Split-View Visual Overlays When plans clash, you need clarity, not chaos. We completely re-architected the visual presentation of the BreakEventCard. It now drops into an elegant split-view layout when events override each other or trigger conflicts, complete with precise audit tracking to log conflicting event names directly inside your records. 3. True Peace of Mind (Search Protection & Safety Loops) The 5-Second Rule: We added an explicit execution timeout threshold to CalendarService.findFreeSlots. Even under heavy sync workloads or spotty network connections, the engine cuts the loop off at 5 seconds to guarantee your mobile interface stays completely snappy and interactive. Date Drift Purges: Changing your active date tab now programmatically flushes out old view state memory, serving up an instant cache refresh without yesterday's data leaking into today's timeline. 4. Absolute Historical Integrity BreakMode should remember what you actually did, not change its story later. Skips vs. Deletions: We decoupled deleted blocks from skipped openings based on your lockout settings. Skipped blocks vanish cleanly from your workspace layout without messing up your analytics. Pristine History: Completed and past breaks are permanently frozen in place. Changing your lockout preferences moving forward will never rewrite your historic data. 5. Strict Calendar Guardrails & Sync Safety No More Overlapping Blips: We deployed a module-level mutex across the BreakScheduler service. This enforces transactional safety so firing rapid, concurrent sync commands can never create messy duplicate events. Rescheduling Shields: Background automatic triggers are now completely suppressed the moment a manual rescheduling flow is active. Boundary Patrol: The scheduling engine now respects hard work hours and weekend timeframes when searching for gaps, and automatically clears queued system push notifications when you remove an underlying break window.