A small, focused Pomodoro app that lives in your Mac menu bar. Free, open source, sandboxed. Focus journal, streaks, global hotkeys, optional Calendar export, and on-device AI weekly review powered by Apple Intelligence, your data never leaves your Mac.
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?
Quick update for everyone who upvoted at launch — Breaks has moved a fair bit since the v1.0 you saw on Product Hunt. It's now on v1.3.2 (still free, still open source, still 100% local).
The bigger changes since launch:
Breaks AI got real. It now does on-device weekly reviews and answers questions about your focus history ("when did I focus best?", "which project took the most time?"). All via Apple Foundation Models — no servers, no API keys.
Per-project stats. Tap any project in the weekly review for week / month / all-time minutes, a 7-day chart, and outcome breakdown.
Six cycle presets — Pomodoro, 52/17, Deep Work, Flowtime (90/20), Ultradian, Quick — on top of fully custom durations.
Markdown export of your full focus journal.
Editable break suggestions and optional Calendar export (EventKit).
v1.3.2 today: Breaks AI can now answer meta questions about the app itself ("who made this?", "what's the license?", "where's the source?") so it stays self-explanatory without cluttering the UI.
If you downloaded v1.0, grab the latest build from Releases — your settings, history, and journal carry over.
Requires: macOS 13+ (Breaks AI needs macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence)
Would love to hear what's working and what isn't, especially from anyone running Apple Intelligence.
As a solo dev this is exactly the kind of tool I end up needing nothing fancy, just something that keeps you honest. Open source is a nice touch. What made you go menu bar over a full app?
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 123 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #6 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, optional Calendar export, and on-device AI weekly review powered by Apple Intelligence, your data never leaves your Mac.
Breaks was featured in Productivity (651.7k 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 167.6k 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
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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?