Here to protect your eyes

A short break
for your eyes,
every so often.

Staring at a screen all day leaves your eyes dry, tired and sore. The fix is simple — look at something far away for a moment — but nobody ever remembers to.

Boop Break remembers for you. It sits in your system tray, and when a break is due it softly covers every monitor with a countdown. At zero it fades away on its own. You never have to click anything.

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Windows 10 & 11 · v1.0.0 · 78 MB · free, no account

This is the break screen. It is counting down right now.

A quiet heads-up

A small card in the corner counts down so you can finish the sentence. It never steals your cursor.

Every screen goes soft

All your monitors at once. Keyboard swallowed, no close button — the point is that you actually look away.

It lets you go

The countdown fades itself out and puts your music back on. You never click anything.

The settings

Make it look like something you want to see.

Every part of the break screen is yours: palette, countdown style, character size, what the mascot says. The preview is the real break screen, scaled down, so what you set is exactly what appears.

Settings: pick your mascot — Pico, Boop or Chirp — each with its own colour scheme.
Pick a mascot. Each one brings its own palette to the whole app.
Settings: break screen designer with a live preview, palette presets and countdown layout controls.
Six palettes or your own gradient — updating live in the preview.

Pauses your music, then resumes it

It remembers exactly which apps were playing and restarts only those. Not the play/pause key.

Quiet hours

Breaks inside your quiet window get deferred to the end of it, never silently dropped.

Three mascots

Pico the ghost, Boop the rabbit, Chirp the furious bird. Picking one restyles the whole app.

Yours to design

Palette, countdown style, character size, wording, motion — with a live preview of the real break screen.

Snooze, if you must

Off by default. Turn it on and you get exactly one per interval. Firm, not cruel.

Stays on your machine

No account, no telemetry, no network. Settings live in one local file. Free and MIT-licensed.

Give your eyes a minute.

Install it, close the window, forget about it. Set your own rhythm and it will find you.

Download for WindowsmacOSsoon

Windows 10 & 11 · v1.0.0 · the Mac build is next