RSIBreak Alternatives

RSIBreak is described as 'Small utility to remind you to take regular short breaks. Repetitive Strain Injury 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' and is a Prevent RSI app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to RSIBreak for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Flathub apps. The best RSIBreak alternative is Stretchly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RSIBreak are Workrave, Glance - Prevent Eye Strain, Micro-Break and Loook.

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  1. TotalPause icon
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    TotalPause is a break reminder tool designed to remind you to take breaks and help you calm down and focus, enhancing productivity and promoting a healthier lifestyle.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Iris icon
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    Reduces blue light and flicker for eye comfort, supports auto color temperature adjustment based on time, customizable modes, overlays, color and font options, docking station support, and accessible part-screen filtering for diverse needs.

    145 Iris alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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
     
  4. Look Away icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Sitting at a computer for long periods of time brings with it significant health risks. Back and neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, eye strain, dry eye syndrome, shoulder and elbow pain, and more. In order to eliminate or at least significantly reduce these problems, it is...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Eyes Care icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Pomy icon
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    Pomy is a desktop widget-style app designed to prevent eye strain by reminding you how long to focus on-screen and when to take a break. Inspired by the 20-20-20 rule by optometrists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. RestStop icon
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    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
     
  9. Fadetop icon
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    FadeTop is a visual break reminder for Windows. At regular intervals, it fades your desktop into a bluish color, and displays current time.

    50 Fadetop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. SmartBreak icon
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    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
     
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    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!

    60 Big Stretch Reminder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Xwrits icon
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    Xwrits reminds you to take wrist breaks, which will hopefully help you prevent repetitive stress injury. It pops up an X window when you should rest; you click on that window, then take a break.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    It can lock screen thus forcing you to take a break. I used to use it a lot.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Xwrits is Free and Open SourceRSIBreak is also Free and Open Source
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