Pace at Mac App Store analyse

While you may need to work at your computer for hours at a time, that doesn’t mean that you need to suffer with muscle pain, eye strain, headaches, CVS, or RSI. Regular brief breaks refresh your body and your mind leading to improved productivity and creativity.

Pace is an intelligent assistant. It ensures you take regular breaks to refresh your mind and body, while not interrupting your meetings, presentations, or screen sharing sessions. No need to be embarrassed by a break appearing in the midst of your presentation or while you’re remotely sharing your screen.

Note: Some features are available through a one-time in-app purchase.

Pace has short and long breaks.
• Short breaks happen frequently and usually last less than a minute each. They are the perfect time to take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, or do a quick stretch.
• Long breaks happen less often, but last longer. When they occur, its a great time to go on a walk, get something to drink, or clean up your desk.

You can skip or snooze a break if you’re not quite ready to pause typing when the break screen displays.

You determine your level of self-discipline and the support you need from Pace. Advanced features allow you set limits on how many times a day you can skip or snooze a break.

I created Pace because I wanted a break software that was smart enough to know when it is professionally inappropriate for a break. I suffer from repetitive strain injury (RSI). As a software engineer I spend most of my day using a computer. Frequent breaks are essential to avoiding pain. I work remotely and use screen sharing apps frequently. When I forget to turn break software off, I have to explain the break screen to the person I’m working with. It can be embarrassing.

I’m committed to adding user-desired features to Pace. Let me know what would make it work better for you.

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STANDARD FEATURES (free)
• Short and long breaks
• Options to skip or snooze a break
• Multi-display support
• Pace appears in your menu bar

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ADVANCED FEATURES (available with one-time In-App Purchase)
• Customize the frequency and length of breaks
• Set your own limit on the number of skips you can use each day
• Set your own limit on the number of snoozes you can use each day
• Disable the ability to skip or snooze breaks
• Pause breaks during screen sharing (via GoToMeeting®, Cisco WebEx, TeamViewer, and join.me)
• Pause breaks for meetings scheduled in your calendar
• Pause breaks when presenting in Keynote or PowerPoint

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Gute Idee !!!!

• ★★★☆☆   Mav Ko 9 years ago ( v 1.1.0 )

Sehr nützliche kleine App mit schönem Design! ABER: um den vollen Funktionsumfang zu erhalten muss man tief in die Tasche greifen! Halte 9,99€ für stark überzogen. 2€ wären angebracht ;) Ohne Freischaltung bekommt man nur einen sehr kleinen Intervall (alle 10min eine 20sec Pause, das nervt!) PS: bei einem attraktiven Preis werden es auch mehr ★★★

Pretty good, but could use some changes

• ☆☆☆☆☆   The One True Dude 9 years ago

I like Pace for the most part. I havent yet upgraded because the timings are good enough for me to try it out. Sadly I have to stop using Pace because a giant white screen flashing up to force a break is too eye searing most of the time. Ill keep any eye on updates. Maybe if I could set the break screen colors Id switch back to it (and Id be willing for that to be in the IAP). Pace also suffers from the same thing every other typing timer suffers from, interruptions. While writing code I know I need to take a typing break, but interrupting a thought process is the worst. At least one other timer I use pops up a "break is coming" notification so I can know to prepare for a break rather than just being blind-sided by it. Update: I had disabled Pace. I told it not to start at login and made sure it wasnt in my login items. It still insists on starting. For now its deleted. I will check back on it in a while to see what updates come along, but for now I just cant recommend it.

OS X 10.11.3 update fixed the crash.

• ☆☆☆☆☆   portalkeeper 8 years ago

I’m a happy Pace user again. The app hasn’t been updated in a while, and it was crashing on launch in 10.11.2, but the OS update to .3 fixed it. So I’m back to using Pace every day as a reminder to stop slouching and get up and move every once in a while, and it works great.

Cuts you off abruptly

• ☆☆☆☆☆   Parkr 8 years ago

I was looking for a way to ensure I wasn’t spending too much time staring at the screen. Pace is nice for that. One major problem: it cuts you off. If I am typing away at an email, Pace has no mercy. It’s infuriating to have your train of thought abruptly derailed like that. It should wait for a full second of no keyboard/mouse input before beginning the break. It’s unacceptable to cut one off — I end up turning Pace off or skipping/snoozing for most of the day because it happens at really inconvenient times and has no mercy.

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