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
Support 💪
Privacy policy 👀
No data collected.
You'll get instant access to the app
No recurring payments
🤩Feature requests
🔥Frequent updates
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- You'll get instant access to the app
- No recurring payments🤩
- Feature requests 🔥
- Frequent updates 🚀