BlinkPause: Blink Reminder & 20-20-20 Breaks for Eye Strain

A blink reminder drawn on the page you're reading, plus 20-20-20 look-away breaks for tired, dry eyes. No camera, no tracking.

BlinkPause is a blink reminder for your browser. At a screen you blink far less, and less fully, so your eyes dry out and tire. BlinkPause gives you a gentle cue right on the page you're reading, so you blink with it, and a few calm look-away breaks through the day. A cue you can feel, in the look you like: • Lids: soft, realistic eyelids, seen from the inside, close over the page and open again in about half a second • Mist: the page softly blurs for a moment, with faint lids, and clears • Peek: a friendly eye blinks at you from a corner or the middle of the window, as big as you like • Every minute by default, from every 30 seconds to every 5 minutes, at the speed you choose, with a slow, full blink now and then Look-away breaks for the 20-20-20 rule: • Every 20 minutes, a small card asks you to look at something far away for 20 seconds, with a quiet heads-up just before • A soft bowl and a calm spoken guide tell you when it starts and ends, so your eyes can stay off the screen • Three times a day, a guided squeeze-blink set you can follow with your eyes closed Quiet when it should be: • Holds back during video calls (Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, Slack huddles and more) • Waits while you're away or can't see the browser, and for a pause in your typing • Pause for 15 minutes, an hour or until tomorrow, from the toolbar, its menu or a shortcut • Only at the hours you choose, and never on the sites you list • Works on the new tab page and the browser's own pages too, from a small pop-up at the toolbar Made to keep: • Calm in light and dark, never a white flash, soothing sounds only where you want them • The basics right in the toolbar pop-up, with a preview and a week of your reminders • Make the eye yours: pick its iris, from sea glass to dark brown • A welcome that teaches the cue in a minute • In 54 languages Private by design: • No camera, no account, no analytics, no network • Page access is optional: it draws the cue, and checks tab addresses only to stay quiet on calls and the sites you skip. BlinkPause never reads your pages. BlinkPause is a reminder, not a medical device. If your eyes stay dry, sore or blurry, see an eye doctor.