Your eyes deserve a break.
Screen Rest is a quiet Mac companion for the 20‑20‑20 rule. Every twenty minutes, it invites your eyes to look twenty feet away, for twenty seconds of stillness.
A single, gentle ritual, repeated, until your eyes remember how to rest.
Three numbers. One quiet ritual.
Coined by optometrist Jeffrey Anshel, the rule is the gold standard for digital eye strain, adopted by the American Optometric Association.
The cadence
Ciliary muscles lock when focused up close. Every twenty minutes, they deserve release.
The horizon
Looking far relaxes accommodation. A window, a tree, a long hallway. The ordinary becomes medicine.
The stillness
Long enough for the eyes to reset. Short enough that your work doesn't forget you.
The quiet cost of screens.
On average, knowledge workers spend seven hours a day within arm's length of a screen. Blink rates drop by up to sixty percent. Focal muscles tense. Vision narrows.
Screen Rest works with your body's natural rhythm. No willpower, no effort. Just a gentle signal at the precise moment you need it.
Features that feel like fresh air.
Every detail considered. Nothing that interrupts, everything that restores.
A companion, not a coach.
Screen Rest lives quietly in your menu bar. One click to snooze, pause, or begin a break. Summon it from anywhere with ⌥⌘B.
Breathe with the light.
An orb that inhales and exhales in rhythm, syncing breath, blink, and gaze for the full twenty seconds.
Knows when to wait.
Pauses during presentations, video calls, fullscreen apps, and active typing. Respects your flow.
Numbers, softly.
A shareable weekly report. Streaks, rhythm, and your eye health grade. Without the dopamine games.
Breaks that feel like breathing.
Hand-crafted visual themes for your full-screen break. Classic, Midnight, Aurora, Forest, Sunset.
One tiny price. Yours forever.
Pay once. No subscription to remember, no trial ending, no feature held hostage.
The whole app. Forever. Every future update included.
- All themes, all features
- Free updates, forever
- Use on all your Macs
- No account. No subscription.
Try free for seven days. Cancel anytime in System Settings.
- 7-day free trial
- Same full feature set
- Cancel anytime
Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Monthly renews at $1.99 after the free trial unless you cancel. Both unlock the exact same app. Prices shown in USD.
A hush spreading through desks everywhere.
"I stopped noticing my headaches before I noticed why. Screen Rest is the first wellness app that doesn't ask anything of me, and gives me everything back."
"After three decades of optometry, I've never recommended an app before. This one I will. The restraint in its design is itself therapeutic."
"It feels less like a tool and more like a window that opens itself at the right time. I forget it exists, which I think is the point."
Twenty minutes from now, you'll feel the difference.
$9.99 once, yours forever. Or start with a seven-day free trial. Works beautifully on your Mac.