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Time Out


You deserve a break
About the Release Notes

Want to know what has changed since a previous version? This page lists those changes. You can alter the range of release notes to display if you wish.

The latest general release of Time Out is version 3.1. The latest TestFlight release is version 4.0.

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Time Out 2.5b2
(Release 2046b): released 2018-10-09; requires macOS 10.10 or later; Mojave compatible

New option to choose which days of the week a break is available

  • Renamed the Break Schedule Available options to "Every Day" and "Between", and added a new "All Day" option.
  • The latter two now include buttons for the days of the week, enabling days to be toggled off or on, to indicate on which days to use the break.
  • The difference between them is that "All Day" doesn't have the time fields, and "Between" does.
  • This new feature could be useful to have breaks that are only used on weekends, or working days, or Wednesdays and Fridays, or any other combination.
  • This new option is available as a reward for current supporters. If you were a supporter in the past, but it has expired, you can extend your supporter status to use this feature, or try for an hour at a time.

New option to disable the app switcher, force quit, and shut down panels during a break

  • Added a checkbox on the Advanced page to disable the panels that appear when switching apps via ⌘Tab, force quit via ⌘⌥Escape, and sleep, restart, or shut down via Ctrl-Eject (or Ctrl-Power). Defaults off.
  • This new option is also available as a reward for current supporters.

Mojave dark mode and compatibility

  • Fixed a crash of the previous beta on macOS versions before Mojave, when displaying the status popover. Sorry about that!
  • Fixed some cosmetic visual issues from the previous beta.

Other changes

  • Can now manually postpone a break for longer than the frequency interval.
  • Fixed playing a sound for the Display Notification break action.
Time Out 2.5b1
(Release 2045b): released 2018-10-02; requires macOS 10.10 or later; Mojave compatible

Mojave dark mode and compatibility

  • All of the app content has been updated to support dark mode on macOS 10.14.
  • Built for Mojave (macOS 10.14), but still compatible back to Yosemite (10.10).

Other changes

  • Fixed a scheduler issue where a lower priority break may be skipped if a higher priority break has never been done.
  • Removed the Fabric crash reporter, to avoid sending unnecessary data to a third party.