Break Timer

Enforce periodic breaks to prevent RSI / eye strain.

What is Break Timer?

Break Timer is a Chrome extension that reminds users to take regular breaks while working or studying. These breaks are crucial in preventing Repetitive Strain Injury(RSI), eye-strain, and overall fatigue. Users can customize the length of breaks, frequency, and mode of reminder (notification or fullscreen break window). The extension also offers functionality for setting working hours, customizing appearance of notifications, and enabling a gong sound. It can optionally restart the break countdown intelligently based on user activity. Break Timer is open source and contributions are welcome.

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By: tomjwatson

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Users: 20,000+

Rating: 4.37 (139)

Version: 1.2.1 (Last updated: 2020-06-24)

Creation date: 2020-06-24

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
alarms
notifications
idle

Size: 917.50K

Email: ch*****@tomjwatson.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 5453 ▼ 90

Other rankings

#2737 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 6

#1 in break keyword 10

#3 in timer keyword 39

#42 in computer keyword 19 ▼ 1

#85 in take keyword 58 ▼ 3

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Break Timer (v1.2.6)

4.70 (20) 921

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Summary

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Break Timer is now deprecated in favour of the standalone desktop app, which is available at https://breaktimer.app.

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

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps in taking regular breaks
Customizable break settings
Useful for self-care and stress relief
Auto start feature
Easy to use

Cons

Some users experienced issues after Chrome updates
Limited functionality for blocking specific sites
Inability to customize break duration

Most mentioned

Useful for taking regular breaks
Customizable break settings
Issues with Chrome updates
Limited functionality for site blocking

Recent reviews

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.