Sitting for hours in front of a computer screen has its consequences. Headaches, eye pain, burnout, and what doctors call Computer Vision Syndrome.
Intermission (formerly Breaks For Eyes) helps you look away from your devices, so you can avoid those side effects.
By default, Intermission will block your screen every 20 minutes, for 20 seconds.
It's completely customizable. You can choose to have subtle reminders instead of having your entire screen blocked. And you can adjust how often and for how long you take breaks. If you want to change the message that appears during your break, you can do that too!
It sits quietly in your menu bar, where you can easily snooze your breaks for some time (30 min, 1h, 2h, 4h, a day) if you have a meeting or are watching a movie.
Intermission can send you a heads up notification 5 or 20 seconds before it starts, and you can skip it or delay it if you still need a few more minutes to focus.
Take care of your eyes!
You can try Intermission free for 7 days, then you can pay once to buy Intermission for life.
Intermission now supports Family Sharing. Pay once and unlock it for your entire family, forever!
Email alex@tryintermission.com for support, feedback, or to share how Intermission has helped you!
This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
A Must Have
gwa-rowyn
It is often easy to forget to take care of yourself. It doesn't give you an option, it takes the wheel from you. You can't make a poor decision if you take that decision off of the table.It also present articles from doctors discussing eye fatigue and shows examples of near sightedness. Both are friendly reminders of the importance of giving your eyes a break.
Eyes and body!
Jessica Gulish
Working from home I have found I don't move once at my desk so not only has this app helped me change my view to help my eyes but I usually get up to stretch, walk or get some water. It's super easy to pause or skip if you have meetings. The only thing and maybe I just don't know it is I wish there was a keyboard shortcut to get back to your screen after a break.
My head and eyes hurt so much less!
We be Jammin 2007
Wow! From day one of using this app I couldn't beleive how much less my eyes and head hurt. I thought I needed a new prescription in my glasses. Turns out I just needed to look away from my screen more often! Totally worth the money!
Pretty Good - 2 Suggestions
_a_flo
I love the entire point of this app. However, it can become pretty inconvenient at times. Like when playing back footage and it pops on to block your view prevent you from being able to pause playback until you click out of the layover. Or when you are mid-stream-of-consciousness typing a message, and it pops on. Also, it does not return control to the prior app when the layover is finished. So, you have to manually re-select the previous app.5 STARS IF:You could use the ESC key to end the layover quickly.&The prior in-use app is re-selected when the layover is done/closed. (This way, interruption is extremely minimal, if focus is needed)&Select certain apps that prevent the layover when in-use. (Least Valuable)
Version 3.1.0 brings some heavily requested improvements:
- 2, 5, & 10 minute intermission durations and 2 hour interval durations have been aded
- Intermission will no longer ask for ratings. If you would like to rate Intermission, you can do so from the menu bar.
If you have any feedback, or would be willing to share how you found Intermission, please email alex@tryintermission.com - Thank you!
Version 3.1.0
The developer, Alex Greene, 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
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Alex Greene
Size
24.6 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
English, German, Hindi, Russian, Simplified Chinese