Take a Break
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Take a Break is a Chrome extension that monitors and reminds you to take breaks periodically.
Take a Break is your personal wellness companion for a healthier digital life. In today's fast-paced world, we often forget to prioritize our well-being while working on our computers. Take a break helps you make small yet significant changes in your routine.
👁️ Rest Your Eyes: Give your eyes the care they deserve. Regularly looking away from the screen helps reduce eye strain and keeps your vision sharp.
🚰 Stay Hydrated: Get timely reminders to drink water throughout the day. Proper hydration is crucial for maintaining focus and energy levels.
💆♀️ Stretch and Relax: Avoid the stiffness and discomfort of prolonged sitting. Reminders are broadcasted to take short breaks for gentle stretches and brief walks to keep your body and mind in harmony.
With customizable intervals and friendly notifications, Take a Break ensures you maintain a healthy balance between screen time and self-care. Start taking mindful breaks, stay hydrated, and nurture your well-being effortlessly. Install now and experience the difference in your daily routine!
What's new (v1.3.1)
✨ Do Not Disturb (DND) Mode
Introducing Do Not Disturb mode — a new way to pause break reminders whenever you need uninterrupted focus. Whether you're in a meeting, presenting, or working on something important, you can now turn on DND to stop reminders temporarily. Once you’re ready, simply disable DND to resume your regular break reminders.
⏱️ “Next Break In” Timer
Stay on top of your schedule with the new "Next Break In" display, showing exactly how much time is left until your next break. This new feature shows a live countdown to your upcoming break, so you always know how much time is left before your next reminder. It’s a simple way to stay aware of your routine without losing track of time.
Update history
v1.2.1
Introducing Advanced settings to that enables customizing break times and audio alerts.
1. You can now customize break times as per your comfort. Click on "Advanced settings" in the popup to expand the timings pane and adjust the duration for each type of break by dragging the slider towards left or right.
2. Enable audio alert to notify when the break ends. Lost track of time when you were relaxing during a break? No worries. You can now simply enable the "Break end notification sound" option in the "Advanced settings" and an alarm rings just before the break ends. Disabled by default. Toggle the switch to opt-in to the break end audio alert option.
Make sure to click on the "Submit" button to save your changes.
Latest reviews
- Jesse Wilson
- Great extension - would love the ability to turn off certain break timers as I don't feel I need the water one.
- Pollob
- Very effective!! Thank you.
- Eric Potter
- well, kinda good... but I'm actually looking for custom timers, not 3 timers that I can't turn off... Like I just want a water timer to be honest. I don't need a look away or stretch.... so this is kinda overkill for me...since when I do get my water I stretch anyway... funny thing is I drink water every 30 mins. Also.... I don't need to be reminded of this all the time, would be nice to have a clickable red or green notice running... like one click red or green at the top menu no into sub advanced menu's (who has that kinda time?) lol...not me... simple...better just make 5 custom timers that you can label yourself. And an easy on/off run ..... How hard can it be?
- Alexyz Yeo
- I love this a lot, I spend to much time on the screen so I always have to be reminded. It is very useful.
- Aubrey Faith
- I love this chrome extension! I just hope that there is an option to disable the extension itself for when I don't want to use it.
- тоска тоска
- Best extension of its kind but theres still some improvements i'd hope for: - Implement a simple on/off button to enable/disable the extension. When im in a meeting i dont want to get interupted - Add the possibility to disable certain timers. For example i only want to use the drink reminder so id want to disable the stretch and eye rest reminders - Add a timer to see how much time is left until the next breaks happen - Add the possibility to enable a sound notification as soon as its time for a break
- Karen Cottingham
- After a bunch of the Break Timers are not longer usable as their permission were not updated with the new Chrome changes, I needed to find a new reminder to drink water. I thought this extension having three options would be great. However the 'Drink Water' is the only one that does not go below 45 minutes. I want to be reminded to stay hydrated every 20 minutes but the only option with that time available is looking away from the screen.
- Manolo
- A very useful extension to have. I do, however, have the following requests, which I feel would enhance user experience: (i) Option to change the duration of the breaks, be it the 20-second Look Away break, the 3-minute Stretch/Stroll break , or the 1-minute Drink Water break. (ii) Audio notifications to indicate when breaks have ended. This becomes extremely useful particularly when one's away from the computer. Additionally, providing the choice of audio or the ability to use one's own audio file would be an added bonus. (iii) When watching a YouTube video, or online movie, the Take a Break nofitication screen has only a "Dismiss" button. I hope the developer can include "Pause" and "Resume" buttons in the notification screen, to provide users the ability to pause any video/movie that's playing before taking the break?
- Nikhil Wankhede
- Excellent! This extension automatically reminds you to take a break.
- Architha Krishna
- Great extension!! much needed!
- Architha Krishna
- Great extension!! much needed!