eyeCare - Protect your vision

eyeCare - Protect your vision

Notifies you in multiple ways to take breaks and helps you with eye exercises based on 20-20-20 rule and with lower back exercises.

What is eyeCare - Protect your vision?
'eyeCare - Protect your vision' is a Firefox add-on that notifies users to take breaks at regular intervals to protect their eye health. It follows the 20-20-20 rule, advocating viewing something 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. Alongside, it offers lower back exercises for computer professionals and helps mitigate eye strain, headaches, red-eye, and related problems. With features such as customisable reminder durations, system startup run, and desktop, sound notifications, eyeCare mitigates repetitive stress injury and encourages good health.
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Stats
By: sks.ideas
Users: 952 ▼ -17
Rating: 4.92 (12)
Version: 0.0.1.94 (Last updated: 2020-09-07)
Creation date: 2020-04-23
Weekly download count: 30
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • notifications
  • storage
  • alarms
Size: 2.48M
URLs: Website
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Summary

If you are spending too much time in front of computers, your eyes are the ones that gets strained to the maximum. Taking breaks at regular intervals will help to ease this strain and to protect your vision. A good rule here is to follow 20-20-20 rule to keep your vision intact for a healthy future.

As per this rule, every 20 minutes, take your eyes off your computer and look at something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. eyeCare will remind you to take this break in multiple ways.

Features:

  1. 20-20-20 rule based break reminder setup.
  2. Ability to customize the duration of the reminder.
  3. Ability to run in the system tray from system startup, even when your browser is not running.
  4. Provides you instructions on how to spend your break time.
  5. Ability to customize and configure the break alert using desktop notification, sound notification etc.
  6. Ability to disable and enable quickly when needed, with a single click.
  7. The extension icon can flash/blink as break reminder for 20 seconds
  8. Countdown display of the time remaining for the break (can be used as a standalone countdown timer too). You can reset the countdown as required.
  9. Automatic synchronization of settings across your devices on the same browser.
  10. Ability to automatically resume eyeCare protection after a preset duration.
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User reviews
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Pros
  • Reminds user to take eye breaks and do exercises
  • Customizable options
  • Helped users with dry eyes and potential near-sightedness
Cons
  • Does not allow the user to select a custom sound using their storage
  • Lacks volume control for the reminder
Most mentioned
  • Reminder to take breaks
  • Helpful for eye health
  • Desire for custom sound option and volume control
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Safety
Risk impact

eyeCare - Protect your vision is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

eyeCare - Protect your vision has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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