Microbreak Boss | Stay productive while you work by taking breaks. And have a badass menubar.

Microbreak Boss is a productivity timer that encourages you to take breaks while you work. In addition to automating time management for your work sessions, you can choose a cool boss icon that sits on your menubar and see the other online bosses that are working while you are.

Features 🚀

Add a little bit of spice to your work sessions

Who says a productivity timer has to be boring?

• Choose one of the cool boss characters as your menu bar icon

• See how many other bosses are working while you are

• See the boss icons of the other online users

Get maximum flexibility regarding how you manage your time

You can configure almost everything.

• Set a work timer and a break timer for x minutes/seconds

• Start, break, skip break, pause, resume and stop manually

• Toggle the countdown in the menu bar

• Show a macOS notifications with a custom quote/message on break

• Force a break by locking all screens...

• ...or allow yourself the option to unlock screens on break

Set it and forget it

Microbreak Boss can be completely autonomous.

• Idle detection will pause the timer when you take a bathroom break and resume when you come back

• The timer can be set to repeat for multiple work sessions in a row

• Break detection waits until you have taken your full break

Changelog 🙌

1.9.0

• Improves UI - the online bosses were starting to get squeezed with the surge of new users

• Option to show/hide the dock icon

• Adds anonymized telemetry

1.8.0

• The ability to set a timer using seconds or minutes

• Adds a menu item to leave a review on the app store

• Fixes a bug related to the number of online bosses

1.7.0

• The ability to "reset break timer when active" to add further automation

• Improved the layout

• Shows the break timer countdown in the menu bar while taking a break

• Shows the number of online bosses with the notifications

1.6.1

• Removes glitches for the "Bosses online" feature and makes it more robust

1.6.0

• Shows how many bosses/users are online (preference window + menu bar)

• Adds more choices for the notification alert sound

• New tab dedicated to notification settings

1.5.0

• Option to resume timer automatically when back from idle

• Bugfix for a bug that could occur when pausing/resuming the timer

1.4.0

• Adds the option to enable or disable automatic repeat for the timer

• Much better management of timer start from inside the preference window and menubar menu (start, break, pause, stop)

• Adds the ability to skip the break and skip to break

• Adds the possibility to skip break on the lock screen by clicking on the boss

• Shows the timer status in the preference window and the menubar menu

• Adds a link to the changelog in the menu bar

• Doesn't start timer when launching the app - it waits for you to start it

• Adds macOS notification support

  • Adds the ability to set a custom notification message/quote on break

  • Replaces the previous alert sound with the default macOS notification sound

1.3.0

• Cleans up the interface by separating it into tabs

• Adds the option to enable or disable the option to restart the timer automatically

• Replaces the "Reset" button with "Start"/"Stop" buttons

• Adds a "Break Now" button

• Makes the menu icon pulse during the break

• Adds menu item shortcuts to be able to "Start", "Stop" and "Break Now"

1.2.0

• Packaged the app for Gumroad

1.1.0

• Adds contact links (Twitter + email) in the menu bar

1.0.0

• Set a timer for x minutes

• Set a break duration for x minutes

• Idle detection to stop the timer after x minutes and restart when active

• Mute timer alarm

• Completely lock screen and force break

• Manually reset and stop the timer

• Choose a cool boss as your menu bar icon

• Can show or hide the timer countdown in the menu bar

• Option to launch timer automatically when your mac boots

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