BreatheBar

A macOS app to calm your mind

Download the latest version from releases tab or the Mac App Store

Bugs

• Shade stays active when clicking on menu bar icon to close animation (it disappears when clicking the close button or anywher e on it though)
• Prefs window doesn't come to front when button is clicked when its already open

Todo

• Add more animations

• Use enter key to start animation when popover is open / focussed

• ✅ Set lower macOS version target Now works to 13.0 (lowest support for LaunchAtLogin)

• ✅ Prefs window doesn't come to front when opened

• ✅ Choose from range of animations

• ✅ Hide dock icon

• ✅ Add user-configurable global hotkey https://github.com/sindresorhus/KeyboardShortcuts

• ✅ Shade window when animation plays

• ✅ Fix animations timing

• ✅ Default amount in Prefs doesn't work

• ✅ Reinstate launch on login

• ✅ Move to Rive for animation

• ✅ Use Lottie for animation

• ✅ Add launch on login thanks @sindresohus! https://github.com/sindresorhus/LaunchAtLogin

• ✅ right click opens menu allowing you to quit app entirely

• ✅ reset animation view when clicking off / closing popover

• ✅ end gif looping after corrent number of counts

• ✅ make menu popover scale / change size correctly

Roadmap

• Add automatic updates — maybe using Sparkle? https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle
• Add audio cues
• Add reminders (automatically pop up every x hours when Mac is on)
• Add contextual reminders (e.g. automatically pop up before a calendar event)
• Add dark mode
• Add a pretty dmg installer https://github.com/sindresorhus/create-dmg
• Submit to app store