Time Out - Break Reminders
You deserve a break
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
You deserve a break. Easy break reminders, with flexible customization if you want it.
It is very easy to fall into bad habits when using a computer for hours on end. You care about what you are doing, so can sometimes push yourself too far, or over-strain yourself. The human body isn't built to sit in one position for endless hours, gripping a mouse or typing on the keyboard. Dejal Time Out is here to help. It will gently remind you to take a break on a regular basis.
Time Out comes with two kinds of breaks: a "Normal" break, typically for 10 minutes every hour, so you can move about and relax, plus a "Micro" break: a very brief pause of typically 15 seconds every 15 minutes, so you can remember not to tense up too much for long periods. You can change, disable or remove either kind of break if desired, and add new kinds of breaks, e.g. fixed lunch or afternoon breaks.
You can configure how long each kind of break lasts, and how long between breaks, and the breaks can be set to count backwards when you take a natural break, e.g. when you go away from your computer.
The app features customizable break themes, with several variations to show during breaks. These themes can be edited if desired, or you can easily add new ones.
While in a break, a progress bar shows how long till it is over, and buttons are available to postpone or skip the break if you can't be interrupted right then, and optionally end the break early.
What's more, you can optionally perform various actions before, during or after breaks. You can display a notification, play a sound, speak some text, run a script, and more.
Time Out is packed with features to customize it to suit your needs. It can be as simple or as powerful as you wish.
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- Refreshed the sidebar, status menu, and Break Schedule, with improved break reordering and collapsible options on Break Schedule and Controls.
- Added manual, one-time, and random schedules as rewards for recent supporters, plus an option to delete a one-time break after it finishes.
- New Break Themes page with thumbnails, descriptions, previews, and a catalog of themes you can download within Time Out.
- Choose multiple themes to rotate through in order or at random, and configure themes separately for each display.
- Added scenic Sinclair Trails photo themes, including an option to show a map of where each photo was taken.
- Added Random Hue and Blurred theme backgrounds, alongside Fixed Color. Theme rotation and the new background effects are rewards for recent supporters.
- Capture and frame thumbnails for custom themes in the theme editor.
- The break control panel now appears on every display and remembers its position on each screen.
- Renamed Break Appearance to Controls and refreshed its layout. Recent supporters can choose to fade out the control panel automatically and reveal it with mouse movement.
- Refreshed Break Actions, improved drag reordering, and restored Flash Screen duration and color controls, with new Random Hue and Blurred effects.
- Add custom action buttons to the break control panel to run scripts and other actions whenever you choose during a break.
- New Sound Volume action to increase, decrease, set, or mute system volume, with optional fading and restoration of the previous volume.
- Browse and download action and rule scripts within Time Out, with searchable descriptions, authors, dates, requirements, and setup instructions. Get several scripts before choosing one to Add.
- New info buttons in script-based Break Actions open the browser with the corresponding script selected.
- New Music Pause and Music Play scripts replace the obsolete iTunes scripts. Pause Music during a break and resume it afterward only if it was previously playing, without requiring Accessibility access.
- AppleScript actions can pass results to the next AppleScript action in the same break, with results kept separate between breaks and previews.
- Added native Shortcuts actions to start, pause, resume, postpone, skip, and reschedule breaks, and get break status, with Spotlight and Siri support.
- New Run Shortcut break action, with optional text input and support for automatic timings or custom action buttons.
- Improved calendar scheduling, including recovery when a calendar identifier changes, warnings for missing calendars, and fixes for ended events, postponing, Ask When to Start, and sleep/wake.
- Fixed the calendar schedule settings page growing wider, and added URL commands to reload calendar schedules.
- Improved allowed times, weekdays, overnight windows, daylight saving time changes, fixed-time schedules, and script rules.
- Improved recovery from interrupted breaks, kept theme previews separate from scheduled breaks, and fixed break-duration statistics when skipping or postponing before a break starts.
- Reduced disk writes while idle when natural break detection is enabled.
- Fixed dragging the break control panel and Option-click on the status item on macOS 27, improved menu icons and tooltips, and fixed the Support Time Out page sometimes blinking.
- Several other fixes and improvements.
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Information
- Seller
- Dejal Systems, LLC
- Size
- 7.2 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
User-Generated Content
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 3-Month Supporter $4.99
- 12-Month Supporter $19.99
- 6-Month Supporter $9.99
- Monthly $1.99
- Yearly $19.99
- Lifetime $59.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Dejal Systems, LLC

