BreakMode vs Hourly Move

Your Day. Your Rules. Your Rest. Most productivity apps tell you when to work. BreakMode empowers you to decide when to rest. Designed for busy remote workers, students, and parents, BreakMode is the smart auto-calendar app that inserts fully customized, user-driven breaks directly into your Google and iOS Calendars based on your unique criteria. No rigid cycles. Just automated sanity shaped by you. WHY BREAKMODE? We get stuck at our desks, lose track of time, and look up at 4 PM realizing we haven't stood up or seen sunlight in six hours. That isn't a deep focus state, it is just plain burnout. BreakMode acts as a direct shield for your time. It steps in so you can step away, because small breaks make big days better. Taking a break shouldn't feel like extra work. HOW IT WORKS Set it and forget it. Complete our personalized onboarding profiling, securely connect your calendars, and define your "Open-Ended" break rules. Our custom algorithm scans your live schedule and intelligently carves out recovery slots exactly where they fit. CORE FEATURES: • CUSTOM OPEN-ENDED BREAKS: You control the parameters. Decide your minimum and maximum break lengths, what days you want to use the app, and your preferred time windows. The app takes care of the scheduling for you. • REAL-TIME CALENDAR SYNC: Works natively with iOS Apple Calendar and Google Calendar. • OVERRIDE LOCKOUT: Protect yourself from chronic burnout. Turn on the Lockout feature to temporarily disable accidental or impulsive break deletions when you are stressed. • SIMPLE PROGRESS DASHBOARD: Quickly see how many breaks you took, what got shifted, and look at your daily habit consistency without any guilt or judgment. Stop letting your calendar run your life. Download BreakMode today and make your schedule work for you.

Sitting is the easiest habit to fall into and the hardest to notice. Hourly Move gives you one glance and one job: stand up and move — on the schedule you set. REMINDERS YOU WON'T TUNE OUT Most reminder apps fail for one reason: your brain learns the pattern and starts ignoring it. Turn on anti-habituation jitter and Hourly Move shifts each reminder by a small, random few minutes every day — same schedule, never the same rhythm — so it stays noticeable instead of fading into the background. It's free, and it's the whole point. ANY INTERVAL — DOWN TO EVERY 5 MINUTES Most reminder apps stop at "hourly". Hourly Move lets you set a repeating alert at any interval — every 5 or 10 minutes, every 25, every 90, every 2 hours. Great for stand-up and stretch breaks, eye-rest and posture checks, hydration, medication, or Pomodoro-style focus and break cycles. YOUR HOURS, YOUR RULES Set an active window (say 9:00–17:00), pick your interval, and keep lunch quiet with skip windows. Reminders fire inside your window and nowhere else. WEEKDAYS ≠ WEEKENDS Create separate profiles — Workdays, Weekend, Study — each with its own days, hours, pace, and sound. They switch automatically with your week. THE DAY RING Home is a true 24-hour dial: your active window drawn at its real clock position, skip windows dimmed, the next reminder glowing, a live countdown underneath. One glance tells you what's next. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN, HOME SCREEN, AND SIRI Add the Day Ring as a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget so your next break is always in view. Turn on the Live Activity to watch the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Pause or resume from a Control Center toggle, or just say "Hey Siri, pause my reminders" — and ask Siri when your next one is. SEE YOURSELF MOVE History counts every break — done, snoozed, or missed — by day, week, month, and year. Watch the habit build. RELIABLE, NOT SPAMMY Time-sensitive notifications arrive on the minute you scheduled. Pause for an hour, skip past lunch, or pause everything from one switch when you need quiet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No internet access at all — your settings and history never leave your iPhone. Back up to a file you control, restore anytime. MAKE IT YOURS Five accent themes (Sunrise, Ocean, Forest, Blossom, Midnight), bundled reminder tones or import your own, custom reminder messages, full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support, and reduced-motion respect throughout. Stand up. Stretch. Every hour. Your back will thank you.