Show HN: An offline desktop companion to help maintain a healthy blink rhythm

See the final 5 minutes of your blink beat on a live graph.

EyesRhythm

EyesRhythm Blink companion

Live

Eyes open 2,184 blinks today

Healthy array ORI Practice daily. It helps build muscle memory.

Ocular Rhythm Index 78 /100 Screen time 3h 12m FPS 30 Look angle 8 °

Beep B Visual A Practice P

Stays beside the work. Counts lone during you are at the screen.

Why it exists

Your eyes activity difficult for you. Screens create them activity worse.

Focused device use frequently cuts blink charge in half. Sparse, uneven blinking is a known controller of digital eye strain, dryness, grit, fatigue, blurred vision, and it is uncomplicated not to notice until the eyes already hurt. EyesRhythm is a blink charge detector that sits beside that work.

What beat means

Rate and regularity, together.

Rate is how often. Regularity is how steady. Enough blinks can still attain in bursts and droughts; a dilatory but equal form motionless leaves the exterior dry. EyesRhythm folds the two into the Ocular Rhythm Index (0 to 100). Maximize your healthy array ORI, use custom daily, it helps to build muscle memory.

The companion

It watches, scores, and, if you ask, gently nudges.

ORI on a compact window. Alert is continually on: Visual by default, a quiescent orange pulse, or Sound if you click A. Optional beep on each blink. Practice is a two-minute trainer so the habit is easier to feel. Poise is the neck’s fractional of the identical sit. The dial turns green where you looked and stays red anywhere you did not, so a motionless stance gets a rotate up, down, left, or right, and the neck and shoulders can relax before you visage the activity again. A health companion, not a medical device. Lasting discomfort belongs alongside an eye-care professional.

Poise

A dial of anywhere your caput went today, in 30° slices. Green is anywhere you looked. Red is a direction you skipped. Turning through those directions lets the neck and shoulders ease, afterward you arrive rear to the screen.

Live blink rate

A webcam blink charge detector in a compact window. ORI, display time, and appearance viewpoint remain in view. Rate and regularity sit on Trace.

Visual or Sound

Alert stays on. Visual is a quiescent orange pulse. Click A for Sound. Beep (B) is a distinct click on all blink.

Beep on all blink

A tighter feedback loop. Optional click on all counted blink.

Practice

A countdown, afterward a guided two-minute meeting that paces blinks so the habit is easier to feel.

Dockable GUI

Open Settings and Reports beside the companion, afterward conceal the panel to keep the opening small.

Built for the desk

A small opening next to your work. Camera preview stays put-away unless you open Lens.

We attention concerning your privacy

100% local. Nothing leaves this computer.

• The app stays on your device from the archetypal launch.
• No account, no licence key, no cloud, and no analytics.
• Camera frames remain on this computer. Nothing is uploaded or kept as a movie of your face.
• Today’s totals and preferences remain in a local folder, yours alone.

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Free

macOS and Windows

• No document and no licence key
• Stays on this computer
• Camera frames never depart the machine

EyesRhythm 1.5.0. Your browser saves EyesRhythm-1.5.0.dmg (93 MB) or EyesRhythm-Setup-1.5.0.exe (84 MB). Drag the Mac app into Applications. On Windows, run Setup.

What is a blink charge detector?

A blink charge detector uses a camera to notice all blink and measure how frequently they happen, normally as blinks per minute. EyesRhythm does that on your Mac or Windows computer, afterward additionally looks at how evenly those blinks are spaced.

Does EyesRhythm activity alongside a laptop webcam?

Yes. It uses the built-in camera on a Mac or Windows laptop, or a USB webcam. Sit as you normally activity so the camera can see your eyes. The setup guide in the diary walks through the few things that help.

Does any video depart my computer?

No. Frames are peruse on this device and discarded. There is no account, no licence key, no cloud, and no analytics. Camera frames are not uploaded or kept as a movie of your face.

How is this distinct from a blink counter?

A oppose lone totals blinks. Six blinks can motionless average two extremely distinct minutes if they attain in clumps alongside a lengthy dry delay in the middle. EyesRhythm folds charge and regularity into one Ocular Rhythm Index, from 0 to 100.

What is Poise for?

Poise shows which way you turned your caput today, in 30° slices. Green is anywhere you looked most. Red is a direction you barely used. Long device activity parks the neck in one pose. Poise is there so you move it up, down, left, and correct from period to time, which lets the neck and shoulders relax, afterward you appearance rear at the screen. It is a reminder, not a treatment.

Is EyesRhythm a medicinal device?

No. It is a health companion for array work, not a assessment or a treatment. Lasting discomfort or a alter in imagination belongs alongside an eye-care professional.

About

Built from a genuine pain, not a trend.

The developer rearward EyesRhythm has spent additional than two decades operating as a application developer. Years of lengthy hours in forefront of device screens gradually took a toll on his eye health, foremost to common dryness, redness, and, at times, important discomfort.

Advances in contemporary innovation made it imaginable to create EyesRhythm: a simple, lightweight companion designed to assistance healthier blinking habits during extended display use. The identical hours additionally depart the neck and shoulders holding one pose. Poise was added so the day includes turning the head: the dial goes green anywhere you looked and stays red anywhere you did not, a immediate to move, afterward come back to the work. Having personally used the application, he has established it helpful and effective adequate to portion alongside others.

Our goal is simple: to build innovation that solves a genuine problem without creating another distraction. EyesRhythm plant quietly in the background, assisting users rotate into additional conscious of their blink beat while staying focused on their work.

We accept the finest products are shaped by genuine experiences and honest feedback. If you choose to try EyesRhythm, we would greatly appreciate hearing concerning your cognition at [email protected]. Your feedback volition assistance us continue improving the merchandise and ensure that it remains simple, useful, reliable, and unobtrusive.