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Why Awayra?

Most of us do not intentionally decide to sit in front of a screen for hours without moving.

It simply happens.

You start working.

You answer one more email.

You fix one more bug.

You finish one more task.

And suddenly hours have passed.

Your eyes have been staring at the same distance.

Your shoulders have barely moved.

You have been sitting in the same position far longer than you realized.

Awayra exists to interrupt that pattern.

Not by distracting you constantly.

Not by tracking you.

Not by sending your data somewhere.

Just by giving you a small reminder at the right moment:

👀 Look away.
👁️ Blink.
🧍 Stand up.
🚶 Move.
🧘 Stretch.
❤️ Take care of yourself.

A few seconds away from the screen can be easy to forget.

Awayra helps you remember.

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❤️ Health comes before productivity

Productivity matters.

Deadlines matter.

Your work matters.

But none of them should require ignoring your body for hours at a time.

A successful career, a growing company, money, technology and achievements have far less value when your health is constantly being neglected.

Awayra was created around a simple principle:

Your computer should help remind you to take care of the person using it.

We cannot promise that a reminder app will prevent medical problems.

What Awayra can do is help you build a healthier routine around screen use by making regular eye breaks and movement harder to forget.

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👀 Take care of your eyes

Long periods of concentrated screen use can make it easy to forget to blink regularly or look into the distance.

Awayra includes a dedicated Eye Reset reminder inspired by the commonly recommended 20-20-20 habit.

By default, every 20 minutes Awayra gives you a short 20-second break.

During the break, a guided animation encourages you to:

• look away from the screen
• shift your focus into the distance
• relax your eyes
• blink naturally
• briefly disconnect from close-up screen focus

The default guided exercise includes 10 counted blinks over 20 seconds.

It is deliberately simple.

The goal is not another complicated wellness routine.

The goal is to make taking a short eye break something you actually remember to do.

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🧍 Your body needs breaks too

Humans were not designed to remain almost motionless in front of a monitor all day.

Awayra's Move Break reminds you to periodically leave your working position and move.

The guided routine can encourage you to:

• stand up
• walk for a moment
• stretch your arms
• move your shoulders
• stretch your upper body
• perform simple squats
• briefly get away from your desk

The goal is not exercise performance.

The goal is simple:

Do not let hours of sitting pass without noticing.

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✨ Designed to help, not annoy

A break reminder is useless if you disable it after two days.

Awayra is designed to remain calm and unobtrusive during normal work.

When it is time for a break, it provides a clear fullscreen reminder with simple controls.

You remain in control.

You can:

• complete the break
• pause it
• snooze it
• skip it
• mute individual reminders
• change schedules
• change durations
• disable guided animations
• enable Reduced Motion

Awayra encourages healthier habits without trying to control how you work.

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🎯 Two independent reminder systems

Awayra includes two separate schedules.

Every interval and duration can be customized.

You can adapt Awayra to your own work style instead of adapting your work to the application.

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🌿 Guided break experiences

A break should feel like a break.

Awayra does more than display a number counting down.

👁️ Eye Reset

A calm visual exercise guides your focus while ten complete blinks are counted on screen.

🚶 Move Break

A guided character demonstrates a short sequence of standing, walking and stretching movements.

If you prefer something simpler, guided animations can be disabled completely.

Awayra also includes Reduced Motion mode for users who prefer static guidance instead of animated movement.

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🔔 Calm sounds, not alarms

A health reminder should not scare you.

Awayra includes six locally generated reminder sounds.

Nothing is downloaded from the internet.

The softer melodies fade in gradually instead of suddenly starting at full volume.

Volume and repeat behavior are fully configurable.

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🖥️ Built for real Windows workflows

Awayra supports the situations that happen during normal computer use:

• Windows 10 and Windows 11
• multiple monitors
• per-monitor DPI
• monitor sleep and wake
• lock and unlock
• suspend and resume
• display configuration changes
• Windows startup
• start minimized
• system tray operation
• idle detection
• optional working-hour restrictions
• daily break statistics

It is designed to stay out of your way until you actually need it.

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🔒 Your privacy stays on your computer

This matters to us.

Awayra does not need your personal data.

There is:

• ❌ no account
• ❌ no advertising
• ❌ no telemetry
• ❌ no analytics tracking
• ❌ no cloud account
• ❌ no browsing-history collection
• ❌ no application-usage tracking
• ❌ no screenshot uploading

Awayra works offline.

Your settings, statistics and logs stay locally under:

%LocalAppData%\Awayra\

What about the blurred background?

When a break begins, Awayra can temporarily capture the display under the break overlay and blur it to create a frosted-glass effect.

That image:

• exists only in memory
• is never written to disk
• is never uploaded
• never leaves your computer
• is discarded when the break closes

If you do not want the screen captured at all, change:

Overlay appearance → Solid

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💚 Free and open source

Awayra is free.

No subscription.

No premium health features hidden behind a payment screen.

No account required.

The source code is available publicly so developers can inspect how the application works.

Awayra is licensed under GPL-3.0-only.

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⬇️ Download

The installer already includes the required .NET runtime.

Official Awayra executables are distributed only through this repository's GitHub Releases.

Unsigned builds may trigger a Windows SmartScreen warning. You can verify the published SHA-256 checksum before installation.

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Installation

Awayra installs per-user under:

%LocalAppData%\Programs\Awayra

Administrator access is not required.

When upgrading, Awayra preserves your settings, reminder schedules and statistics by default.

You can explicitly choose to remove existing data during installation or uninstallation.

Silent clean installation:

Awayra-Setup-x64.exe /VERYSILENT /CLEANDATA=yes

Silent uninstall with data removal:

unins000.exe /VERYSILENT /CLEANDATA=yes

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For developers

Requirements

• Windows 10 or Windows 11 x64
• .NET 10 SDK
• PowerShell
• Inno Setup 7

Run locally

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\dev.ps1

Build and test

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\verify-change.ps1

Build installer

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\build-installer.ps1

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Repository structure

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Contributing and security

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before contributing.

Security reports should follow SECURITY.md.

Release history is available in CHANGELOG.md.

Use of the Awayra name and logo is covered by TRADEMARKS.md.

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Medical notice: Awayra is a wellness and break-reminder application, not a medical device and not a substitute for professional medical advice. Persistent eye pain, severe headaches, double vision, numbness or ongoing musculoskeletal pain should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare professional.