Detect context
Knows when coding starts without reading the work.
VibePause recognizes developer tools by bundle identifier, pauses when you step away, and resumes when flow returns.
Product tour
The VibePause layer, with the quiet parts opened up.
Detection, template nudges, guided breaks, optional weather context, and flow history work together as one calm macOS companion.
Nudge gently
Prompts should feel like help, not a performance review.
Breaks are short, practical, and timed around session shape. You can dismiss, defer, or step into a guided reset.
Understand patterns
Better breaks become visible over time.
Progress shows today's breaks, reminder responses, and full session history and insights, with Quiet Hours and optional weather context shaping the timing.
Privacy model
Useful signals, not private content.
Foreground app identity, idle timing, and limited session context help timing without keystrokes or code content.
Eye break
Look at something across the room for 20 seconds. Your eyes will thank you.
Start 20sInhale for 4 seconds...
From reminder to recovery
Guided breathing, posture, eye, and body-scan breaks add enough structure to help you actually pause.
Today
Focus timeline
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Weather context
Optional user-entered city, weather, and sunlight context can shape outdoor nudges without GPS tracking.
Developer guides
Practical ways to build better breaks into coding sessions.
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20-20-20 Rule: Eye Break Reminders for Mac
Understand the 20-20-20 guideline and choose an eye break reminder for Mac, including the difference between exact intervals and session-based nudges.
Stretch and Posture Reminders for Mac
Set up Mac reminders to stand, stretch, or change position. Compare a simple prompt with a guided break and adjust reminders you keep dismissing.
Pomodoro Timers vs Automatic Break Reminders on Mac
Choose between a Mac Pomodoro timer, a manual focus block, and automatic session-based break reminders without assuming they behave the same way.
How to Remember to Take Breaks While Working
Build a break routine for focused Mac work: choose a cue, decide on one action, leave a return note, and adjust reminders you keep postponing.
Ready
Give your workday a softer operating system.
US$29.99 on the Mac App Store. One purchase includes every feature.
Get VibePause on the Mac App Store