PaceBar

PaceBar is a macOS menu-bar app that monitors your interaction timing and frequency to build a personalized sense of your working pace, showing a simple pace score and nudging you when it's time to reset — aimed at catching overwork before you notice it yourself. It develops a baseline specific to your own working patterns rather than a generic threshold, sends gentle (not alarming) notifications when workload becomes excessive, and operates entirely locally with no cloud sync and no special system permissions required — it explicitly does not record keystrokes or screen content, only interaction timing. It's a one-time $7.99 purchase through the Mac App Store, requiring macOS 15 or later, with no subscription or recurring fees. Good fit for someone prone to losing track of time while deeply focused, who wants a lightweight, privacy-respecting nudge to take a break rather than a full time-tracking or productivity-monitoring suite.