Breakaway 3 4+

The essential music utility

FrozenCrate

    • $14.99

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Description

Try before you buy – download the complete app at https://frozencrate.com/breakaway for a free 30 day trial!

Breakaway is your essential audio control sidekick. Need to quickly get up for a second, but headphones are tying you down? Don't waste your focus hunting down the right app to pause, breaking your concentration – just unplug and go! Breakaway automatically pauses whatever you are listening to when you unplug your headphones, be it Music, Spotify, VLC, and many others... even YouTube! You won't miss a beat, nor embarrassingly blast out your tunes in public again! And when you get back, Breakaway conveniently resumes your session when you plug your headphones in, seamlessly picking up right where you left off. Need to quickly mute to respond to someone? Breakaway has you covered there too, automatically pausing on mute and smoothly resuming on unmute, maximizing your productivity.

Breakaway has been trusted by countless Mac users for over a decade, bringing them convenient audio control and improved focus. Breakaway 3 is the latest and greatest version, carefully refined and streamlined for the modern macOS era.

Essential Music Control
• Convenient and intuitive: Control music playback with the headphone jack and mute
• Headphone control: Disconnecting headphones pauses music, reconnecting resumes
• Mute control: Muting pauses music, unmuting resumes
• Customizable: Adjust what happens on plug/unplug and mute/unmute
• Seamless integration: Works with your favorite apps like Spotify, Apple's Music, and more
• Productivity booster: Focus on your task, not on pausing things
• Peace of mind: Prevent your music from accidentally blasting out in public

Easy to Use
• Default settings designed to "just do the right thing"
• Seamlessly hop between different apps and Breakaway intelligently keeps up
• Easily disable entire app for one-off situations

Safari Integration with the included Safari App Extension
• Browse popular websites with Breakaway at your side
• Automatically pause and resume videos with headphones/mute
• Works with many websites that have audio and video playback, including YouTube and Twitch*

Beautiful Interface
• Full dark mode support
• Sleek and unobtrusive menu bar icon
• Butter-smooth animations
• Handy notifications when headphones are plugged/unplugged or muted/unmuted
• Easily undo automatic pause/resume right from the notification

Powerful Customization
• Tweak how Breakaway responds to headphone and mute change events
• Choose from one of five built-in actions, or make your own
• Add your own custom actions to run AppleScripts, UNIX shell scripts, and Automator workflows
• Eg a UNIX script that locks the display when you unplug your headphones
• Eg an AppleScript that opens your favorite music app when you plug in your headphones
• Fine-tune audio fade-in duration on music resumes
• Adjust which notifications are posted
• Disable or enable the menu bar and Dock icons

Straightforward Pricing
• One-time purchase, free updates
• No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no tracking
• Free 30 day trial at https://frozencrate.com/breakaway

High Quality
• Get answers quickly with the fully integrated contextual help system
• Direct email contact with the developers for questions, troubleshooting, and feature requests

Compatible Music Apps
• iTunes
• Music
• TV
• Spotify
• QuickTime Player
• VLC
• VOX
• Swinsian
• Doppler

Compatible Websites*
• YouTube
• Netflix
• Twitch
• Facebook
• Reddit
• Vimeo
• CNN
• BBC
• Yahoo
• Baidu
• Niconico
• and many more!

Minimum System Requirements
• macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
• Safari (for website integration)

Notes
• Breakaway currently does not support the Apple Podcast app (added in macOS 10.15 Catalina)
• Due to rapidly changing web technology, some websites may become unsupported by Breakaway

We hope you enjoy using Breakaway!

What’s New

Version 3.2.0

• Adds Doppler support
• Fixes squished menu item on secondary, inactive displays

App Privacy

The developer, FrozenCrate, 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 Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.