Break Time widget for Windows
A notification is easy to swipe away. A guy sprinting across your monitor is not. Break Time keeps a schedule: every 30 minutes, every hour, or at the times you choose, inside the hours you work and only on weekdays if you like. When it is time, one of four clips plays full-screen on a transparent layer above everything you have open, on the monitor your mouse is on or on all of them. He climbs down, walks through, gives you a thumbs up, and the layer closes itself. Your clicks still go where you aimed them the whole time.
Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required
The real Break Time widget, running live. Drag it around.
What Break Time is good for
The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.
Get up every half hour without a nag you can dismiss by reflex
Set fixed breaks at 10:30, 13:00 and 15:30 around a meeting-heavy day
Put the reminder on every monitor so it lands wherever you are looking
The clock lives in the app, not the widget, so a break comes even when the dashboard is tucked in the tray or showing another screen, and a restart picks the schedule back up. Break now, Skip and Pause are on the tile, along with a count of the breaks you actually took today. The clips are chroma-keyed VP9 with a real alpha channel, which is why there is no green box and no rectangle, just the character.
Every Break Time setting
9 options, set per widget - so two copies of Break Time on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.
Mode
Interval minutes
Times
Any value you like · starts at 10:30, 13:00, 15:30
Active from
Any value you like · starts at 09:00
Active to
Any value you like · starts at 17:30
Weekdays only
Advanced
Displays
Volume
Any number · starts at 80
Show schedule
Getting Break Time on your desktop
- 01
Install
Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.
- 02
Add the widget
Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.
- 03
Make it yours
Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.
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Break Time is one of 88 widgets
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