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Breaks
A quiet Pomodoro that lives in your menu bar.
131 followers
A quiet Pomodoro that lives in your menu bar.
131 followers
A small, focused Pomodoro app that lives in your Mac menu bar. Free, open source, sandboxed. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, optional Calendar export, and on-device AI weekly review powered by Apple Intelligence, your data never leaves your Mac.
Breaks
Hey PH
I built Breaks because every Pomodoro app I tried either had too much going on or looked like it was made in 2009.
Breaks lives in your menu bar, stays out of the way, and just ticks. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, local notifications, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Everything stays on your Mac.
It's free, open source (MIT), and runs on macOS 13+.
Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're a heavy Pomodoro user. What's missing from the tools you use today?
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@gjinprelvukaj The privacy-first approach is refreshing—especially keeping everything local without telemetry. One thing that might help you understand what resonates: tracking mentions when people share their setup screenshots or recommend Breaks in productivity communities could show you which features people actually talk about vs. what gets requested. That kind of signal often reveals what's truly missing from existing tools.
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@osakasaul Hey Saul, I've mostly been watching GitHub issues, but tracking organic mentions in setup screenshots or productivity threads is a smart signal I hadn't thought about. Appreciate that.
Spec27
Very cool - any plans to put it in into the app store?
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@steven_willmott Hey Steven, thanks for asking. I do plan to put it on the App Store, but development is still early. I'll publish it to the App Store and Homebrew Cask once I get an Apple dev account and finish a few more features/issues I've found. Definitely on the roadmap, aiming for later this year.
Spec27
@gjinprelvukaj cool. Thanks for the follow up!
Very cool project. Any thoughts on pushing it to Windows/Linux?
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@tuliosousapro Thanks!! Right now im focused on macOS so currently Windows/Linux is not being developed. But i was a windows user for some years, and a linux user for the last 4 years (before switching to macOS) so i know the pain when a tool is available on one but not on others. If i ever do want to port it to windows/linux , ill be doing it when i have a very stable version of macOS. Never say never though.