Free break timerTake the break.
The timer will call you back.

Set a break, step away from the screen, and get an alarm when it is time to go back. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

10 minutes remaining of 10 minutes

Forget to take breaks? Make one a daily habit.

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Keeps time in a background tab. Works on a phone. No account, no ads.

break timer

Why a break needs a timer.

Most breaks fail in one of two ways: they never start, because the work feels too urgent to leave, or they never end, because one video becomes five. A timer fixes both. Knowing exactly when you will be back makes it easier to stop, and an alarm makes it easier to return. The break is short on purpose; what matters is taking one.

✦ What it is for

What people use a break timer for.

Between focus blocks

Five minutes after every block of focused work, away from the desk.

Screen breaks

Look at something far away, stand up, get water. The timer keeps it honest.

A proper lunch

Thirty minutes that are actually thirty minutes, not a sandwich at the keyboard.

A reset after a hard call

Ten minutes before the next thing, so it does not carry the last one with it.

✦ How to

How to use the break timer.

1

Pick a length

It starts at 10 minutes. The presets underneath switch to another length in one click, and the custom field takes any number of minutes.

2

Press start

The ring starts emptying and the tab title counts down, so you can see the time left from another tab.

3

Leave it running

Switch tabs, lock the phone, let the laptop sleep. It counts to a fixed end time, so it stays correct.

4

Get the alarm at zero

A chime repeats until you stop it, and a browser notification arrives if you allowed one. Reset to go again.

Every day

The break that happens every day is the one that works.

One break is a pause. A break at the same point every day is a habit, and habits are what EvyOS is built to keep. Make it one and the app tracks the streak, forgives the odd missed day rather than wiping it out, and shows you a year of them at a glance.

✦ Other timers

Timing something else?

Questions

The break timer, answered.

Short and regular beats long and rare. Five to ten minutes between focused blocks is a common rhythm, with a longer break of fifteen to thirty minutes every couple of hours. The presets cover all of those, and the custom field takes any length.
Yes. It counts to a real end time rather than adding up ticks, so a background tab, a locked phone or a sleeping laptop does not slow it down. The alarm still sounds at zero.
Something that is not the screen. Stand up, walk to a window, refill a glass of water, stretch. Scrolling your phone is a change of screen, not a break from one.
Yes. No account, no card, no ads.

The timer is the easy part.
Doing it again tomorrow is not.

EvyOS holds the goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills the timer is in service of, and keeps the streak of the sessions you actually did.

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