Break Helper

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

What is Break Helper?

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

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 642 ▲ 5

Rating: 3.89 (35)

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

Creation date: 2018-09-26

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

notifications

Size: 142.34K

Ranking

# 37302 ▼ 53

Other rankings

#26702 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 5 #6 in break keyword 10 #158 in take keyword 35 ▼ 3 #204 in minute keyword 4 ▼ 4

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Extension summary

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Do you work for long periods of time and forget to take regular breaks? Break helper reminds you to take a break with a notification and helps you track your progress with timers and statistics page.

How to use To start using Break Helper you don't really need to do anything, just install it. The default settings use Pomodoro technique (25 minutes of work and 5 minutes of break time). If you want to change these settings to other preprogrammed techniques (like 20-20-20 or 50-10) or design your own custom technique, just click on the Break helper icon and inside the popup click "Preferences". You will be redirected to a Options page where you can set your configuration.

To check how much time is left until the next break simply click on Break helper icon and inside the popup you will find a timer that tells you how much time is left until the next break.

Updates: Update 1.6.3: Fixed playing sound when break is finished

Update 1.6: Added back "Take a break" and "Skip this break" buttons, added countdown timers displaying break duration to the break notification, fixed playing break notification sound.

Update 1.4: Added "Stop timer", changed notification sound to a louder one, added a timer on the extension button

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

Recent 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.