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iCare: A free 20-20-20 eye-break reminder for iPhone and Apple Watch

iCare: A free 20-20-20 eye-break reminder for iPhone and Apple Watch

via Dev.toLars van der Niet

iCare: A free 20-20-20 eye-break reminder for iPhone and Apple Watch I spend most of my day staring at a screen. That's not a complaint, it's just the job. But after long stretches of focused work I started noticing dry eyes, headaches, and that general foggy feeling by the end of the afternoon. The fix is stupidly simple: every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. It's called the 20-20-20 rule and optometrists have been recommending it for years. The problem isn't knowing about the rule. It's actually remembering to do it when you're deep in a problem. Every existing app wanted my money or my patience I tried a handful of 20-20-20 apps on the App Store. Some were fine but charged a subscription for what is essentially a repeating timer. Others were bloated with gamification, streaks, wellness dashboards, and meditation upsells bolted onto what should be a 20-second break. A few were genuinely abandoned, crashing on launch or stuck on an iOS version from two years

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