About Sane Break
Sane Break is a cross-platform break reminder designed to help you take meaningful breaks without disrupting your workflow.
Sane Break is a cross-platform break reminder designed to help you take meaningful breaks without disrupting your workflow.
Sane Break is a cross-platform break reminder designed to help you take meaningful breaks without disrupting your workflow.
What's new
Features
- pause on screen lock (#174)
Other improvements
- fix AppImage release and make it updatable (f388ef9)
- upgrade to Qt 6.12 for Windows and macOS builds (10a861f)
- mark GNOME 51 as supported (266cdb3)
Installation instructions:
macOS
Recommended installation method:
brew install allanchain/tap/sane-break
Alternatively, download sane-break-macos-x86_64.dmg if you are using an Intel Mac, or sane-break-macos-arm64.dmg if you are using Apple silicon. Open and install it. macOS 13 or newer are supported.
Windows
x86 version of Windows 10 or newer is supported. Older versions may be supported too.
- Portable version: Download the sane-break-windows.zip extract it. Put the .exe executable anywhere you like.
- Installer verions: Download the sane-break-windows.exe and run it.
Linux
For Debian-based distributions, there is a notoriously large number of derivatives, and many of them ship old versions of Qt and do not include the latest layer-shell-qt. It is impractical to create .deb packages for all of them, so we only provide support for Debian Bookworm and Trixie. (Unfortunately, Ubuntu LTS ships with a very old version of Qt and lacks layer-shell-qt.)
The difference between Bookworm build and Trixie build is the layer shell support. If you are using a Debian-based distro and a Wayland compositor with layer shell protocol support (e.g. KDE Neon), you probably need the Debian Trixie build. Otherwise, the Bookworm build is good to go.
For GNOME users, make sure to enable the GNOME shell extension with:
gnome-extensions enable [email protected]
AppImage version is experimental. It may or may not work on your machine.
| Publisher | AllanChain |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.10.6 |
| Release date | 2026-10-01 |
| License | GPL-3.0 |
| Installer type | nullsoft |
| Architecture | x86 |
| Package ID | AllanChain.SaneBreak |
winget install --id=AllanChain.SaneBreak -ewinget upgrade --id=AllanChain.SaneBreak -ewinget uninstall --id=AllanChain.SaneBreak -e"sane-break-windows-installer.exe" /SYes. Sane Break is free and open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license.
The latest version is 0.10.6, released on Oct 1, 2026.
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 8202dbe4f67a86247abd838f5fb0d2184710d60730f883efbe50cb0fcbdecbc3.
Sane Break runs on Windows and is available for 32-bit (x86) systems.
Run the offline installer with "sane-break-windows-installer.exe" /S, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=AllanChain.SaneBreak -e --silent.
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Sane Break and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=AllanChain.SaneBreak -e.