Boost 20-20-20: Prevent Eye Strain

Lightweight tool to help you take regular eye breaks to prevent eye strain.

Boost 20-20-20: Prevent Eye Strain

Boost 20-20-20: Prevent Eye Strain is a lightweight Chrome extension that reminds you to take regular eye breaks every 20 minutes to prevent digital eye strain. It follows the 20-20-20 rule recommended by the American Optometric Association for maintaining vision health.

Extension stats

By: Boost
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.29
(7)
Version: 1.0.5 (Last updated: 2020-02-25)
Creation date: 2020-02-25
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 423.94K

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Extension summary

Spending long periods in front of your computer may lead to digital eye strain. Taking breaks at regular intervals will help to ease this strain and to protect your vision. A good rule is to follow the 20-20-20 rule, recommended by the American Optometric Association, to keep your vision intact for the future.

As per this rule, every 20 minutes, take your eyes off your computer and look at something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. Boost 20-20-20 will guide you through this process by opening a new tab on your browser every 20 minutes as a reminder to you.

This is a must-have extension for computer professionals with lower back (spine) related problems, neck pain, eye-strain related headaches, and red-eye.

Repetitive stress injury (RSI) and eye strain are common ailments among computer users. Taking a break every few minutes is going to save your health and vision.

User reviews

Helpful! It would be better with slight customization options. The biggest issue I have with it is that there is no option to automatically close the green "back to work" page when your break is over, then switching back to the last focused tab.
by Paul Maddaloni, 2022-01-09

Does the job of helping me remember to look up from my computer while I'm working. I like that it can be easily disabled so that I can turn it off when I'm watching a movie. I do wish that there were customizable sound/notification options.
by Annalisa Alden, 2021-12-28

easiest to use compared to others and have this installed on all my computer
by Sam Sam, 2021-05-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Boost 20-20-20: Prevent Eye Strain does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Boost 20-20-20: Prevent Eye Strain is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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