“The 6 pm eye burn was part of my job. Three weeks of eye breaks later, it just… isn't anymore. I forgot the app was running, which is exactly the point.”
Pausr gives your eyes a break.
Break at the right time. Work better, not longer.
Sitting still is not a neutral act.
2 in 3
screen workers experience digital eye strain.
Lema & Anbesu, Scientific Reports (Nature), 2023
6 h+
of daily sitting is where mortality risk starts to climb.
Patterson et al., Eur. J. Epidemiology, 2018
30–40 min
of daily movement can offset a full day of sitting.
Ekelund et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2020
What Pausr does
Everything it does, at a glance.
Announced, never sprung on you
30 seconds ahead, a notification tells you which break is coming: start it or push it back.
Never when you need to focus
Meeting, screen share, mid-game? It waits. Without ever reading your screen.
Screen Time, for your Mac
Your hours, app by app. Stored nowhere else.
- Cursor2 h 14
- Microsoft Teams1 h 02
- Figma43 min
- Claude31 min
- Notion18 min
Head down too long? You'll know.
No blocking, just a nudge when one app has held you for an hour.
Reviews
Screen workers, before and after.
What people say once the breaks become a habit.
“I've uninstalled every break app within two days. Pausr survived because it waits when I'm in a call and never locks my screen mid-deploy. It respects my work, so I respect its breaks.”
“The stand-up breaks fixed the back pain my expensive chair never did. And the screen-time stats are brutally honest: turns out my ‘quick Slack check' averaged 40 minutes.”
“I bought it for the eye breaks and stayed for the long breaks. 15 real minutes away sounded impossible; now it's the moment my best ideas show up.”
“As a founder I glorified the 12-hour grind. Pausr didn't make me work less. The afternoons just stopped being garbage. Best €:productivity ratio on my Mac.”
“I render, I edit, I never leave the screen. The heads-up 30 seconds before each break means I'm never interrupted mid-cut. It feels like it was built by someone who actually works.”
“The 6 pm eye burn was part of my job. Three weeks of eye breaks later, it just… isn't anymore. I forgot the app was running, which is exactly the point.”
Why Pausr exists
Five years of remote work. The one project that did not work well enough all these years was me.
Whole days without standing up, eyes burning, focus collapsing. I thought I was keeping a pace. I was wearing myself out.
I looked for a tool that would step me away from the screen at the right moment. It did not exist. So I built it.
If your work lives on a screen and you would rather not spend five years learning this the way I did, I built it for you.
2,000+ screen workers4.9
Take back control of your breaks.
Your body wasn't built to sit in front of a screen all day.
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