Introducing Breakly, your personal break reminder! 🥳
Sitting in front of a computer for long stretches without moving is common, but experts and researchers increasingly warn that it’s not healthy. That’s why Breakly was developed—to help you remember to take regular breaks from your computer. With a personalized break schedule, Breakly can boost your health and even improve your productivity.
So how does Breakly work? It’s actually remarkably simple. Just decide the time interval between your breaks and how long they should last. It’s easily handled from Breakly’s main window.
The main window lists your configured timers and their status. From here you can start and stop timers, enable or disable them, and quickly get an overview of when your next break will occur.
Configuration options ⚙️
To configure and customize your timers, you just click the ✏️ button. Configuration options include, besides break interval and break duration of course, the following:
- An optional name for the break.
- Idle detection (the countdown timer for the next break pauses when you’re not using the computer).
- Whether you are allowed to skip a break or not.
- Pre-break notifications.
- And much more…
When it’s time for a break, Breakly takes over and displays a full-screen window that informs you that it’s time to take a breather.
You can style your break screens with three different themes: gradient, acrylic or with a solid background color. You can also configure:
- A custom message, with the font, size and color of your choice.
- Color and size of the countdown timer.
- If you can skip the break or not.
Other great features ⭐
When you close Breakly’s main window, the application continues to live in your system tray. Right-clicking the icon brings up the tray menu, where you can control Breakly without opening the main window.
Here you can start or stop individual break timers, or if you have several running, control them all at once.
Download Breakly ⏬
Breakly is available from the Microsoft Store and is compatible with Windows 10 and 11. Download it today!