I've been using it as part of my Setapp subscription, and it's a love-hate relationship. On the one side I appreciate the posture hint and the app nudging me to take a break. But ever so often I am in deep focus and get really annoyed when the "long break starting in 1 minute" notification pops up. Most of the time I am in the middle of writing when the break starts, and I click it away fast to not loose my thoughts. A feature recognizing active writing to push the break a minute would be helpful I guess.

Few alts for other platforms

https://workrave.org/ (not mac)

https://github.com/hovancik/stretchly (everywhere)

Both are open source.

Then there’s this https://www.dejal.com/timeout/ (only mac) - used this one as well.

I've found the posture and blink reminders have been really helpful. I do find myself having to postpone the breaks because they like to pop up when I'm in deep focus. Thing is, I never really mark when I'm in deep focus because I honestly don't realize it when it happens, so it's hard to provide a constructive solution for this app around that.

I haven't seen it in the settings but some "drink water" reminders or just customizing those would be great.

> knows when not to interrupt

I wish all forms of pop-up notifications knew this.

If I log into a security camera interface after an event triggered, that's not the time to tell me about a software update.

If I log into a news website because of a local crime, that's not the time to tell me about your fancy newsletter.

If I log into a brokerage during trading hours, that's not the time to tell me about your new interface.

I click all of these things away reflexively because they appear at the wrong time.

I use this through Setapp, mostly for posture reminders. The only thing I would love is more notification sound options, the current one scares me a bit.

Two things regarding the website:

- scrolling is so extremely laggy that the website is almost unusable on Firefox on macOS on an idle MacBook Pro (even if it seems smooth at first, scrolling up and down a few times slows it down significantly)

- I assume the code editor screenshot should actually be some sort of animation, it doesn't seem to work (although right clicking shows options like Pause, Loop...).

The license scheme makes me sad. It reads like a subscription pretending to be a one-time purchase.

Curious to hear from anyone with long term success: do these kinds of apps actually work or do they more just make you feel like you’re doing something about it?

on macos, you can also just set a timer on the Clock app that comes for free on macos.

i use a 47 min timer to remind me of getting up and shaking out and a tiny Keyboard Maestro macro to set or cancel it with a hotkey.

once it runs, there is a timer in the menu bar.

totally sufficient

Looks nice, but hate that pricing.

Distilled, this would be a nice macOS or Raycast feature, but I don't see myself giving up either $29 or 150MB RAM.

Looks really clean!

Now I have the theme from A Series Of Unfortunate Events in my head again.

I don't mind

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This app was good but I ended up disabling it and they forgot to turn it back on.

How much trouble do you have with piracy? I notice there's a DMCA on Macked.app forcing one to sign in to download it. Do you contact sites manually or pay someone?

Do you think that people that pirate would pay if it wasn't cracked? Perhaps adding a crypto payment integration would allow more people to buy it.

For me, I will very rarely pay for software unless it accepts crypto, for privacy and convenience reasons.