Enforce periodic breaks to prevent RSI / eye strain.
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Break Timer is now deprecated in favour of the standalone desktop app, which is available at https://breaktimer.app.
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Break Timer allows you to set up customizable breaks and will remind you to take them. Taking breaks whilst working or studying is crucial in preventing RSI, eye-strain and tiredness.
Break Timer allows you to customize:
* How long your breaks are and how often you wish to have them
* Whether to be reminded with a simple notification or a fullscreen break window
* Working hours so you are only reminded when you want to be.
* Colour and text of break window and notifications
* Whether to play a gong sound at break start and end
* Whether to allow skipping, postponing and ending of breaks
Break Timer will also intelligently restart your break countdown (optionally) when it detects that you have not been using the computer for some amount of time.
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BreakTimer is free and open source. The code is available at https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer and contributions and bug reports are very welcome.
Latest reviews
- (2023-01-02) Joel 722: Thank you for the extension, Works mostly, but if you click the Skip Popup on the lower right of the screen, it does not skip and the break screen shows.
- (2022-09-08) José Ángel: Funciona genial. Gran aplicación.
- (2022-09-04) Vince and Bobbie Antonucci: It was great until it blocked ever going to Chrome Web Store again. It took me a few minutes to figure out why every time I would attempt to go to Chrome Web Store, I was being redirected to a specific website. The only thing I had done was install this extension. I disabled this extension and I was able to back to the Web Store again.
- (2022-01-24) Bree Walters: GREAT app. It is extremely useful. I would change one thing. The ability to add sites you want to block off during working hours! I would have all my employees using this extension if we had that option!
- (2022-01-06) N1ck: Отличное расширение. Пользуюсь несколько лет. Минимум функционала, как раз только то, что мне нужно. Ничего лишнего.
- (2021-12-29) Mikhail: О да, отличная штука
- (2021-12-29) Wenhua Zzz: Great extension Want to add statistical data function
- (2021-06-07) Basara Ans (Ans.Basara): 要是能自定义语音就好了 三点几累 饮茶先啊
- (2021-06-01) uOcool: perfect
- (2021-05-24) Elaine Nguyen: I LOVE the fullscreen popup notificaiton!
- (2021-01-14) Liz O'neil: Realmente es buena, me gusta porque me obligo a tomar un justo y merecido descanso. Solo me gustaría que al terminar el break, sonara la alarma para hacerme saber que ya debo regresar .
- (2021-01-14) Lucy Jiang: Great App! However, can you please add an option for us to customize how many seconds our breaks are? Ideally, I'd have 30 second breaks every 30 minutes, so that I wouldn't have to manually close the window myself. A minute is a bit too long for me. Anyway, this app is a great addition to anyone's self-care routine, especially for those who are on the computer all day long. Thanks! :)
- (2020-12-16) Dopamine: 丸美就完了
- (2020-11-12) Ohee Mohammad: Literally saved my life
- (2020-06-28) John Murphy: This is the best pomodoro enabling extension I have found so far although I am using the deprecated Chrome extension on a Chromebox. I don't use Windows, MacOS or Linux so the app wouldn't help me. I like the auto start particularly. I gave you a very small donation in token of that... Two suggestions: 1. Enforce the breaks. Other apps flip or lock the display until the end of the break. 2. Keep the break running until a user action is detected. Five stars if you can do those two things in the extension!
- (2020-04-15) Venator: Good.
- (2020-03-09) Srinath Varkala: Works perfect
- (2020-03-04) Stephanie: I used to love this app and use it for work every day. Maybe it's the recent Chrome updates, but the app has stopped working this past month. I get the popup that the break will happen soon...and the break never comes. It just starts the countdown again. Also, disabling the break doesn't work if I have more than one Chrome window open. I suggest you try another break app until this one is updated and debugged.
- (2020-02-22) Hoang Anh Vo: I love this app. Can I show you my ideas that might develop your app futhur ?
- (2020-02-13) John Kowalczyk: Perfect, simple "take a break" tool that works either as a browser extension or installed app In my opinion it's excellent, does its job
- (2020-01-20) Nathan T.: Exactly what I need! Thanks Devs!
- (2020-01-12) Gugle Konto: Ideales Tool zur Selbstorganisation. Ich nutze es zur stündlichen Entspannung und zur Stündlich 3 minütigen Pause mit Sport. Also als Energypush mental und physisch. Klasse
- (2019-10-24) a a: This helps me alot as I can get stressed quite alot while trying to learn programming languages online. Thanks for this, I needed this alot!
- (2019-10-21) Zhengqiang Tan: 非常赞,小清新!
- (2019-07-18) Amnon Levav: This is an amazing extension, except I can't set the timer to times between midnight and 1AM.
- (2019-06-20) Tommaso Sebastianelli: Really well done, nice UI, never misses a beat.
- (2019-05-14) Макаров: Отличный полнофункциональный таймер с кучей настроек.
- (2019-04-24) James Kagbara: Disable feature is not consistent .Break still starts even if you disable it
- (2019-04-21) M.Mojtaba Monemi: Thanks for your great extension!
- (2019-04-11) 周智: 阔以
- (2019-03-22) Xiang Ji: This app is simple and awesome! Good to have with Chrome browser.
- (2019-03-19) Vasu Kurapati: This app is simply awesome, after an year shifted to other app just bcoz Long Break feature after 4 breaks. i request someone to please confirm existence this feature in this app.
- (2019-03-12) Jonathan Le: Im a melon and I need no breaks, but I say that it is pretty good.
- (2019-02-02) Seethu Natarajan: Awesome extension. Especially love that it auto starts! The only change I would request is a button to restart the "Break frequency" countdown, along side the "Disable breaks" button. Yes, I know its there in the Settings menu, but thats one additional click. Or even better, you could support keyboard shortcuts for the "restart break frequency" action (and other actions) via chrome://extensions/shortcuts Great job again!
- (2019-01-21) Eric Azizian: I quite enjoy using this break timer (when I remember to actually take the break instead of skipping through it). Definitely worth trying out!
- (2018-12-24) Michał Urbanek: I think option to set break for shorter time would be nice. Anyway almost perfect. And browser is where it should be.
- (2018-11-01) Srivatsan: Absolutely perfect app. I have been searching for an app that would prompt me to stand up for a while now and none of them work as well as this one. The developer of this app is having a really improving lives!
- (2018-10-05) C. Cameron: A lot of nice customization options, including extensive colour choices and it does the job on prompting me to get up better than anything else I have seen on Windows 10/Chrome browser. On the other hand, getting Action Centre notifications that I have to clear up (almost) all the time is an annoyance and it appears I have to disable all Google Chrome browser notifications going to the Action Centre to get this to stop - which is not workable for me as I have other extensions. And, especially, the product doesn't seem to properly react to the specified inactivity period option I set or the PC going into sleep mode even, and since clicking 'skip' on the notification of impending break does not stop the break coming either, I'm getting a lot of breaks I shouldn't get / have to turn around and click on to stop. Further, it sometimes doesn't put out the usual warning of an impending break and also doesn't support multi-monitor setups (which can, ha ha, make it tempting to just continue during the break on the second monitor!). I like to support such efforts as these with $$$'s, but this needs a little more work before I do so.
- (2018-09-19) Jocelyn O'tron: This app is wonderful- please make ADHD friendly variants of sound/colour, it stops working for us after a while
- (2018-08-31) Ritchie Rosson: Does the job great. Big notice comes up to take a break! Just don't let yoursrlf close it without taking a break! Look aftet your eyes folks : )
- (2018-08-15) ELLA STEWART: Ehh, didnt work out. I mean its good, but takes a while to load the screen also. I didnt need it, im really every on the laptop. Dont need it, but it is VERY good, and tells the truth, some extensions lie, and are fake.
- (2018-07-05) Botond Kopacz: Pretty straightforward with lots of customization options. Tried several others, this one suited my needs best. Recommend it.
- (2018-05-31) JazzyVibes Davis: I wear reading glasses. This will be so helful to m.
- (2018-05-04) Gerard Teichman: Simple to use, pleasant reminders. Reduces eyestrain.
- (2018-04-22) Prajwal S Nayak: Excellent, its exactly what I was looking for. One suggestion: Make the extension run in the background (even when chrome is closed). Add more options to postpone for multiple time durations. Anyways it has a good beep sound, I like it.
- (2018-04-04) _RryanT: Muito bom, bem útil e com várias opções de configuração.
- (2018-02-25) narcolethe: Nice little app. I like it. Keeping track of when I should get up and move around. Yeah, well, cute little app developers should just QUIT ASSUMING THAT I'M AWAKE DURING THE DAY OK THANKS!!!! If you can't tell I'm being driven crazy by the amount of great looking apps that don't allow for the fact that I get up at 9pm and go to bed at 1pm. Please take this into account so that I can enable and set working hours!!!! "Breaks from MUST BE EARLIER than breaks to" does not account for us vampires who need it to go the other way around! Thank you.