Blink Break.
Screen break reminder with attitude.
A tiny character lives in your macOS menu bar, talks like a mate, and makes eye breaks harder to ignore. Polite first, firm if needed.
100%Fri 14:22Oi, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Eyes need a sec.
Boring break reminders get ignored.
You know the 20-20-20 rule. You also know your eyes ache by 4pm. Generic timers slide off your screen like spam. Blink Break makes the healthy action memorable, because a cheeky mate in your menu bar is harder to dismiss than a system toast.
Polite first. Firm if needed.
Work normally
Blink Break sits in your menu bar. 16×16 pixels of vibes. No popups, no nagging.
Get a nudge
Every 20 minutes, The Bossman pops out: snooze, take it, or dismiss.
Ignore at your peril
Skip enough times and you get the vexed face. Skip more and it goes full screen.
Take the break
20 seconds, look 20 feet away. The Bossman celebrates. Streak goes up.
A menu bar mate, not a wellness app.
Menu bar character
16×16 pixel-art Bossman in the macOS menu bar. Template image, follows light/dark mode.
Escalation system
Gentle → firm → vexed → full-screen takeover. Built for chronic ignorers.
Meeting-aware pause
Detects camera and mic in use. Won't blow up your Zoom call. We're not animals.
Idle-aware reset
Uses IOKit idle time. Step away from the keyboard? Timer resets itself.
No Accessibility permission
Doesn't tap your keystrokes or read your screen. Zero scary permission prompts.
Local-first by default
Preferences, streaks, reminder lines, all on device. No account. No cloud.
Configurable timers
Tune work interval, break duration, escalation thresholds. Make it yours.
Native macOS notifications
Falls back to system notifications when the popover can't show. Polished.
Built different. Literally.
Blink Break ships with a custom small language model, trained from scratch for one narrow job: writing short, cheeky eye-break nudges in the app's house style. Not a chatbot. Not a wrapper. A tiny purpose-built text generator that lives in the app.
Not fine-tuned off a big model. A small LM built specifically for Blink Break's voice.
Generates short reminder lines. Doesn't chat, doesn't summarize, doesn't write code.
A curated set of static lines is always on-hand, so reminders never break.
Runs on-device. No prompts leave your Mac. The Bossman doesn't snitch.
A character, not a checkbox.
Pixel-art hooded figure in streetwear. Tamagotchi meets London roadman. Each mood is a different pose with a different vibe, and a different palette.
Timer running. Vibing in the menu bar.
Local-first. Properly.
No sign-up. No email. Open the app, start saving your eyes.
Streaks and prefs live on your Mac. We can't read them. Nor can anyone else.
Blink Break doesn't watch your keys or your screen. Idle detection uses IOKit, that's it.
No pings home. No analytics. No funnels. Just a character in your menu bar.
Get The Bossman in your menu bar.
Native macOS app. Free to try. Your eyes will thank you. Eventually.