A calm, beautiful break timer for desk workers. Configurable intervals, animated stretch guides, and a strict mode that actually works.
Add to Chrome — It's freeSet breaks every 20, 30, or 45 minutes — or pick a custom interval. The timer runs quietly in the background even when the popup is closed.
15 office-friendly stretches with step-by-step instructions and a front-facing animated figure showing exactly how each movement works.
Full-screen break overlay on your active tab. If you're away from Chrome when it fires, it waits for you — appearing the moment you come back.
View all 15 stretches in a grid from the popup or right inside the overlay. Tap any one to switch to it instantly mid-break.
Choose from 4 sounds — marimba, soft bell, kalimba, or wind chime — to play before each break. Preview them before committing.
Set start and end times so the timer only runs while you're actually working. A daily summary appears at the end of your workday.
Automatically pauses on Saturday and Sunday by default. Choose any days to pause — even Wednesdays if that's your day off.
Auto-pauses when you step away from the computer — works whether you're in Chrome or another app entirely — and picks back up right where you left off.
Sage green, dusk purple, or ocean blue. Your chosen theme skins both the strict mode overlay and the popup itself.
Follows your system setting automatically, or override to light or dark manually from the settings panel.
Your streak, settings, and preferences follow you to any Chrome browser you're signed into — automatically, no setup needed.
Track your daily break streak, total breaks taken, and minutes moved. Small numbers, real motivation.
English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. Auto-detects your browser language, or pick one yourself.
A dedicated options page with sidebar navigation covers every preference — timer, notifications, appearance, work hours, weekends, and more.
A clean 4-step setup on first install — pick your interval, notification style, and theme. Replayable anytime from settings.
Drag to reorder your 15 stretches, or toggle off the ones you don't want. Your order is saved and synced across devices.
A quick view of every break you took today — what time it was and which stretch you did. Resets cleanly at midnight.
Trigger a break or snooze without touching the popup. Alt+Shift+B and Alt+Shift+S, fully customisable in Chrome.
No accounts, no servers, no tracking. All your data stays on your device. MicroBreaks never sends anything anywhere.
Add MicroBreaks to Chrome from the Web Store. The timer starts automatically.
Choose how often you want to be reminded — 20, 30, 45 minutes, or custom.
When it's time, you'll get a gentle notification with a stretch prompt.
Follow the animated guide, take a breath, and get back to it feeling better.
MicroBreaks collects zero personal data. Everything — your settings, language preference, streak, and timer state — is stored on your device using Chrome's built-in storage. Settings sync between your own signed-in devices via Chrome's infrastructure, the same way bookmarks work. Nothing is ever sent to us or any third party.
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