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Summary and Features

Breakin' is designed to encourage healthy work habits by reminding you to take regular breaks. Whether you’re immersed in tasks or multitasking, it can help you step away and recharge. Prioritize your well-being and work-life balance today!

Key Features

Flexible Breaks

Schedule recurring reminders (every 10 minutes to 4 hours) of varying lengths or trigger breaks manually based on your preferences

Customize Your Break Reminders

Create up to 12 personalized messages (with emojis) that match your mood or style

Flexible Display Locking

Lock all connected screens (physical or spaces) to encourage you to step away

Adaptive Functionality

Automatically skip breaks when you're busy or pause when you must interact with your Mac

Tailored Experience

Randomize which reminders are shown or pick specific break reminders to always appear, customize break reminder background colors, and mute background audio to enforce serenity

Seamless System Integration

Keyboard shortcuts for pausing and break skipping; can launch automatically on Mac startup


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NOTE: Breakin' is Donation-ware: fully functional, but with certain features disabled. If you find it useful, you're invited to Buy me a Coffee. In return, I'll send you a personal license key that gives you access to all functionality.

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Encouraged Breaks

Breakin' takes over all of your Mac's screens to encourage you to take a break

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Flexible break reminders

Optionally skip breaks when you're not ready to take one by either pausing or letting it detect your activity

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Create custom reminders

Define your own break reminders, which can include emojis

Breakin' Demo Video


Frequently Asked Questions

Go the Preferences window and choose the Always repeat this break reminder option. This will show a list of currently defined break suggestions. Select one and it will be shown each time a break reminder is triggered until you change it.

Yes. Go to the Preferences window and choose the Show countdown before starting break option. A countdown window will appear along with the option to skip the upcoming break.

Setting Behavior
Allow endless breaks Breaks will last until they are ended manually by clicking on the End Break Now button; they are not automatically ended
Allow break skipping Breaks will end automatically after their set duration has been reached; they can also be manually ended by clicking on the End Break Now button
Neither 1) or 2) Breaks will end automatically after their set duration has been reached and no End Break Now button is shown; you must press the ESC key to manually end the break

Breakin' offers an option to check on whether you're idle (e.g. not using the keyboard or mouse) when a break is scheduled to start. If you are typing or using the mouse for at least a full second, then Breakin' will skip the break. Although this defeats much of the purpose of Breakin', you can do this by going to the Preferences window and choosing the Skip break if not idle option.

Just drag the Breakin' application into the Trash. That will uninstall it.