20-20-20 Eye Rest: Break Timer

A gentle vibration every 20 minutes, on your iPhone or your Apple Watch. Twenty calm seconds, then back to work. Free, and nothing ever leaves your device.

Every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away, for 20 seconds.

Eye doctors call it the 20-20-20 rule. Eye Rest makes it effortless.

A gentle vibration — on your iPhone or your Apple Watch — reminds you to rest your eyes through a screen-heavy day. No disruptive alarms. No guilt. Reminders are offers, never demands: snooze them, skip them, and the rhythm quietly continues.

MADE TO BE WORTH IT • Tap Start once — reminders loop until you stop, restarting after each break • 12 vibration patterns you choose by feel, from a whisper to a desk-rattler • A 20-second break dial designed to be looked away from • Answer from the notification: Done, Snooze or Skip, without opening the app • A live countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Gentle statistics that encourage, never shame — no streaks to break • Working-hours and quiet-hours scheduling for office rhythms

ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch companion carries the whole loop — the reminder, the break dial, the done — so a tap on the wrist is enough even when your iPhone is face-down in another room. Give "time to rest" and "rest is over" two different haptics, and choose both from the iPhone.

BUILT TO ACTUALLY ARRIVE Reminders survive a reboot, a closed app, and a phone that has been in your pocket all morning. If notifications are switched off in a way that would silence them, Eye Rest says so plainly and takes you to the setting that fixes it, rather than counting down to a reminder that will never come.

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Free. No ads, no subscription, no account, no analytics. Your settings and your break history never leave your device — there is no server to send them to. Export everything to a single file whenever you like, or delete all of it in one tap.

Your eyes need the nudge forever — time blindness during focus is human hardware, not a habit to fix.

Your eyes will thank you at five o'clock.