Microbreak Boss
Stay productive while you work. 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.
$3.99
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Add some more fun to your work sessions
Who said 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
- 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
- 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
- Removes glitches for the "Bosses online" feature and makes it more robust
- 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
- Option to resume timer automatically when back from idle
- Bugfix for a bug that could occur when pausing/resuming the timer
- 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
- 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"
- Packaged the app for Gumroad
- Adds contact links (Twitter + email) in the menu bar
- 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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