Glance

Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Glance reminds you, gently, and waits when you are on a call.

Download for Mac

Free · macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel · No permissions · Install steps

Glance runs on a Mac. Open quietpixel.dev/glance on your Mac to install it.

Smart Pause

Quiet when it matters

A reminder in the middle of a call is worse than no reminder. So Glance holds the break, and never drops it.

Your camera is on Glance reads the camera's on or off flag. It never sees the picture.
You present or share Mirrored displays and slideshows hold the break.
Your chosen apps Pick the apps that always mean "not now".
You step away After a few minutes away, the timer starts over. Away is already rest.

The held break comes about 30 seconds after the call ends. You get one break back, not a stack of missed ones.

Why green

A break fills the whole screen, so its colours come from studies of visual comfort, not from a brand book.

Match the room A big jump in brightness, up or down, is what strains the eye. So the break follows your system appearance: light by day, dark at night. Source
Light suits most eyes Dark text on a light ground reads faster and causes less blur for people with astigmatism. Source
Green, on purpose A 2025 study found a light green ground lowered fatigue and helped reading, compared with white. Source
Not about blue light A review of 17 trials found blue-light filters make no clear difference. Distance and blinking do. Source

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1.5%during a break, with Reduce Motion on

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Download the disk image. Open it and drag Glance to your Applications folder.
Open Glance. It is not notarized by Apple, so macOS stops it the first time. Close the warning.
Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, find the message about Glance, and click Open Anyway. You do this only once.
A ring appears in the menu bar. It fills as your screen time adds up.

To start Glance when you log in, turn on Settings › General › Start Glance at login. Press Return to start a break, or Esc to skip it.