Awareness v1.0

Awareness v1.0

A mindfulness timer for macOS. Randomly blacks out your screen to help you pause, breathe, and stay present.

Features

• Menu bar app with yin-yang icon
• Random blackout intervals (configurable 1–120 min range)
• Blackout duration 3–120 seconds with 2s fade transitions
• Visual modes: plain black, custom text, image, or looping video
• Start gong + end gong (independently toggleable)
• Camera/microphone detection — skips blackouts during calls
• Handcuffs mode — commit to the full duration
• Snooze (10 min – 2 hours, or indefinitely)
• Keystroke suppression during blackout
• Multi-monitor support
• Launch at Login
• Persistent settings

Installation

1. Download Awareness.app.zip below
2. Unzip and move to /Applications
3. Right-click → Open on first launch (required because the app is not notarized)

Alternatively, remove the quarantine flag:

xattr -cr /Applications/Awareness.app

Requires macOS 13+.