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Take a Break

by Prajwal Kulkarni

v1.3.1 Updated Nov 10, 2025 1.59MiB
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Description

Take a Break is your personal wellness companion for a healthier digital life. In today's fast-paced world, we often forget to prioritize our well-being while working on our computers. Take a break helps you make small yet significant changes in your routine. πŸ‘οΈ Rest Your Eyes: Give your eyes the care they deserve. Regularly looking away from the screen helps reduce eye strain and keeps your vision sharp. 🚰 Stay Hydrated: Get timely reminders to drink water throughout the day. Proper hydration is crucial for maintaining focus and energy levels. πŸ’†β€β™€οΈ Stretch and Relax: Avoid the stiffness and discomfort of prolonged sitting. Reminders are broadcasted to take short breaks for gentle stretches and brief walks to keep your body and mind in harmony. With customizable intervals and friendly notifications, Take a Break ensures you maintain a healthy balance between screen time and self-care. Start taking mindful breaks, stay hydrated, and nurture your well-being effortlessly. Install now and experience the difference in your daily routine! What's new (v1.3.1) ✨ Do Not Disturb (DND) Mode Introducing Do Not Disturb mode β€” a new way to pause break reminders whenever you need uninterrupted focus. Whether you're in a meeting, presenting, or working on something important, you can now turn on DND to stop reminders temporarily. Once you’re ready, simply disable DND to resume your regular break reminders. ⏱️ β€œNext Break In” Timer Stay on top of your schedule with the new "Next Break In" display, showing exactly how much time is left until your next break. This new feature shows a live countdown to your upcoming break, so you always know how much time is left before your next reminder. It’s a simple way to stay aware of your routine without losing track of time. Update history v1.2.1 Introducing Advanced settings to that enables customizing break times and audio alerts. 1. You can now customize break times as per your comfort. Click on "Advanced settings" in the popup to expand the timings pane and adjust the duration for each type of break by dragging the slider towards left or right. 2. Enable audio alert to notify when the break ends. Lost track of time when you were relaxing during a break? No worries. You can now simply enable the "Break end notification sound" option in the "Advanced settings" and an alarm rings just before the break ends. Disabled by default. Toggle the switch to opt-in to the break end audio alert option. Make sure to click on the "Submit" button to save your changes.
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Reviews (2 cached)

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Karen Cottingham

After a bunch of the Break Timers are not longer usable as their permission were not updated with the new Chrome changes, I needed to find a new reminder to drink water. I thought this extension having three options would be great. However the 'Drink Water' is the only one that does not go below 45 minutes. I want to be reminded to stay hydrated every 20 minutes but the only option with that time available is looking away from the screen.

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Eric Potter

well, kinda good... but I'm actually looking for custom timers, not 3 timers that I can't turn off... Like I just want a water timer to be honest. I don't need a look away or stretch.... so this is kinda overkill for me...since when I do get my water I stretch anyway... funny thing is I drink water every 30 mins. Also.... I don't need to be reminded of this all the time, would be nice to have a clickable red or green notice running... like one click red or green at the top menu no into sub advanced menu's (who has that kinda time?) lol...not me... simple...better just make 5 custom timers that you can label yourself. And an easy on/off run ..... How hard can it be?

Permissions (5)

Permissions

alarmsβ„Ή Can schedule periodic background tasks background notificationsβ„Ή Can show desktop notifications scriptingβ„Ή Can inject scripts into web pages storageβ„Ή Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 1.3.1
Updated Nov 10, 2025
Size 1.59MiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026