Break Helper

Reminds you to take a break, because breaks are good for your health and productivity

Break Helper: Your Personal Break Reminder & Timer

Break Helper is a Chrome extension reminding users to take breaks at regular intervals. Designed to increase productivity and healthy practices, this extension uses proven techniques like the Pomodoro (25 minutes of work, 5 minutes break) or the 20-20-20 rule. It also allows complete customization of break schedules to cater to individual preferences. Break Helper notifies about upcoming breaks and keeps track of progress with timers and statistics.

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By: Tautvidas

Users: 567

-17

Rating: 3.89

(35)

Version: 1.6.3 (Last updated: 2018-09-26)

Creation date: 2018-09-26

Permissions:

notifications

Size: 142.34K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 38,452 ▼ 316

Other rankings

#24967 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 746 #5 in break keyword 9 ▲ 1

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Easy to configure intervals without needing permissions
Automatically starts timer, which is useful
Helpful for managing work/break time
Counts down on the sidebar
Strong timer functionality

Cons

Break starts automatically without user confirmation
Timer does not function as expected on some versions of Chrome
Cannot stop the timer
Lack of sound notifications when breaks start or finish
Hard to read countdown timer on green background

Most mentioned

Issues with timer not working properly
Requests for additional features like sound notifications and visual countdown icon
Repeated reports of the break starting automatically
Desire for a louder sound notification
Suggestion for timer customization to include minutes

User reviews

It was working fine, but now the break starts automatically even though you don't click on "take a break" when the popup appears.

Lucas Nesci, 2018-09-27

The idea is great, execution is poor. The timer runs no matter what, resetting the timer or even stopping it does nothing. The timer just keeps going, making double and tripple notifications, and like I said keeps going even though I have pressed stop and the counter is staying at 00:00. Until it's fixed it's not useable.

A Google user, 2017-10-17

Great extension, the timer starts on its own which is useful. Please add sound notification for end of break time. Also, it's hard to read the timer countdown; please change the font colour on the green background from white to black.

Yun, 2017-05-18

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Break Helper requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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