Smart screen breaks that quietly protect your vision while you work — and know when not to interrupt. In a meeting, mid-game, or deep in flow? Offscreen waits, then catches you between moments.
Settings & stats stay on your Mac
No signup, no license keys
Never asks for camera, mic, or screen access
MIT-licensed and transparent
A simple loop for sustained productivity and eye health.
Offscreen stays silent in your menu bar while you work, tracking screen time without breaking your flow.
A gentle panel slides in before each break — start now, or snooze — without ever stealing your keyboard focus.
A full-screen overlay guides a 20-20-20-style rest across every display, then you're back, refreshed.
Everything you need to manage screen fatigue without adding digital noise to your life.
Balanced (20 min / 20 s), Deep Focus (45 min / 30 s), 20-20-20, or a fully custom rhythm — with a longer break every few cycles.
From Casual (skip anytime) to Hardcore (no skipping), with an optional auto-lock so long breaks actually get you to step away.
A subtle countdown pill follows your cursor in the final seconds before a break, so it never catches you mid-thought.
Schedule named breaks — lunch, a walk — at fixed times of day, using the same gentle heads-up flow.
Set active hours and days so Offscreen only tracks and reminds you during your actual workday.
A simple 0–100 metric for how well you're resting your eyes today, with a 7-day history — all stored locally in SQLite.
Tune break lengths, overlay style, and rotating messages — plus an optional ambient sound that plays when a break ends.
Global hotkeys to take a break now (⌥⇧B) or toggle pause (⌥⇧P) from any app, plus launch at login.
Break overlays cover every display — even over full-screen apps — across dual monitors and ultra-wides.
Offscreen doesn't blindly count time. It reads permission-free system signals to hold a break until you're actually free.
Track your consistency over days and weeks and build a habit your eyes will thank you for — the more breaks you actually take, the higher your score.
No. Offscreen never accesses your camera, microphone, or screen contents. It only reads permission-free system signals — like whether the camera is in use (a meeting) or how long you've been idle — so macOS never even shows a privacy prompt.
Yes. Run it as your main timer with the Deep Focus preset, or in a lighter 20-20-20 eye-rest rhythm alongside another tool.
No — Offscreen is macOS-only, focused on computer-related eye strain. For your phone, the built-in Screen Time features are a good fit.
A weighted daily metric based on your break consistency and adherence to eye-rest guidelines. Above 80 is excellent. It's computed and stored entirely on your Mac.
Install with brew install --cask dayaki/tap/offscreen (or download from Releases). Remove it with brew uninstall --cask offscreen — no leftover daemons or config files.
Offscreen is an independent, open-source take on the mindful screen-break apps a lot of people rely on. It's built from scratch to be native, private, and free — and it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any other app.
A free, open-source Mac app for anyone who spends their day in front of a screen.
brew install --cask dayaki/tap/offscreen
Signed & notarized by Apple — opens with no security warnings. Requires macOS 15+ on Apple silicon.