Rest Alternatives

Rest is described as 'App for your computer that keeps you productive and healthy throughout the day' and is a Prevent RSI app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Rest for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and BSD apps. The best Rest alternative is Stretchly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rest are Workrave, ZenBreak, Glance - Prevent Eye Strain and Micro-Break.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Rest alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. RSIBreak icon
     21 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    RSIBreak is a small utility to remind you to take regular short breaks. Repetitive Strain Injury is an illness which can occur as a result of continuous work with a mouse and keyboard. The risk of suffering injury increases the longer users work without breaks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Cronometer is a macOS Menu Bar application designed to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance with seamless break reminders, time tracking, and habit monitoring. Prioritize your well-being while staying productive with powerful features aimed at reducing strain and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Look Away icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    This is a minimalistic Mac app which reminds you to take a 20 second break to look at something 20 feet away every 20 minutes, i.e. enforce the 20-20-20 rule. These breaks help preserve the eyes from strain, dryness, fatigue and other ill effects of the Computer Vision Syndrome...

    53 Look Away alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Eyes Care icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Eyes Care is a desktop application built with Flutter, designed to help users maintain healthy eyes by following the 20-20-20 rule. The app reminds users to take regular breaks and rest their eyes to reduce eye strain and prevent digital eye fatigue.

    58 Eyes Care alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Eyes Relax icon
     22 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    It’s an utility that helps avoiding eyes-related problems when working at a computer for several hours. Concentrating your eyesight on a computer screen can cause an eye strain. You can prevent this by taking regular breaks during the work and look at distant objects.

    52 Eyes Relax alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. EyeDefender icon
     14 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    EyeDefender is a freeware rest reminder designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) resulting from working on a computer for hours. CVS symptoms include eyestrain, blurred vision, delayed focusing, headaches, back and neck aches, dry and burning eyes, light sensitivity...

    50 EyeDefender alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. RestStop icon
     4 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    RestStop sits in your tray and gives you non-intrusive reminders to rest after you’ve worked continuously for awhile. It looks like an hourglass, and it fits right in with the other Windows tray icons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Fadetop icon
     10 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    FadeTop is a visual break reminder for Windows. At regular intervals, it fades your desktop into a bluish color, and displays current time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Display a full-screen image on your desktop at regular intervals, reminding you to take a break, with this portable app that offers support for multi-monitor setups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. SmartBreak icon
     5 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    SmartBreak is a revolutionary ergonomics program that reminds you to look away from your computer screen and enforces you to take regular breaks based on your usage.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. AntiRSI icon
     7 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress. It does so by forcing you to take regular breaks, yet without getting in the way. It also detects natural breaks so it wont force too many breaks on you.

    49 AntiRSI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Big Stretch is a free simple reminder tool that prompts a user to take regular breaks and helps prevent the symptoms of RSI. Alternatively it can be a simple reminder program to tell you when it’s your coffee break!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
You are at page 2 of Rest alternatives