A small, focused Pomodoro app that lives in your Mac menu bar. Free, open source, sandboxed. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, and optional Calendar export.
I built Breaks because every Pomodoro app I tried either had too much going on or looked like it was made in 2009.
Breaks lives in your menu bar, stays out of the way, and just ticks. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, local notifications, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Everything stays on your Mac.
It's free, open source (MIT), and runs on macOS 13+.
Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're a heavy Pomodoro user. What's missing from the tools you use today?
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About Breaks on Product Hunt
“A quiet Pomodoro that lives in your menu bar.”
Breaks launched on Product Hunt on May 2nd, 2026 and earned 83 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. A small, focused Pomodoro app that lives in your Mac menu bar. Free, open source, sandboxed. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, and optional Calendar export.
Breaks was featured in Productivity (650.7k followers), Open Source (68.4k followers), GitHub (41.2k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 163.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Breaks?
Breaks was hunted by Gjin Prelvukaj. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Gjin Prelvukaj
Hey PH
I built Breaks because every Pomodoro app I tried either had too much going on or looked like it was made in 2009.
Breaks lives in your menu bar, stays out of the way, and just ticks. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, local notifications, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Everything stays on your Mac.
It's free, open source (MIT), and runs on macOS 13+.
Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're a heavy Pomodoro user. What's missing from the tools you use today?