Blinky follows the ophthalmologist-recommended 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, it gently dims your screen for 20 seconds so you look at something 20 feet away. Set it once, forget it, and let your eyes thank you later.
- 100% offline — no accounts, no network calls, no telemetry
- Dashboard window — opens on launch, shows live status and every action
- Floating quick-access button — a small draggable icon that lives on your screen; click it anytime to open the dashboard, or hide it entirely
- Lives in your system tray — right-click for the full menu
- Pause / resume, "take a break now", fully adjustable interval and break duration
- Optional strict mode — makes a break impossible to skip, for people who actually need the enforcement
- Multi-monitor aware — the break overlay covers every screen you have
- Launches with Windows (on by default, toggle it off anytime)
- Manual "Check for Updates" — only checks when you click it, never automatically in the background
- Go to Releases and download
Blinky-Setup.exe - Run it — no admin rights required
- Optionally check "Create a desktop shortcut" during setup
- Done. Blinky opens automatically and lives in your tray from then on
Uninstalling is just as clean: Settings → Apps → Blinky → Uninstall, like any normal Windows app.
Windows SmartScreen may show a "protect your PC" warning the first time you run the installer — this is normal for independently distributed apps that aren't code-signed. Click More info → Run anyway.
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit)
- No internet connection required to use the app
- ~30 MB disk space
Blinky makes zero network calls during normal use. The only exception is the "Check for Updates" button — and even that only fires when you click it yourself, fetching a small public version file from this very repository. Nothing about you or your device is ever sent anywhere.
Blinky is free to use — for personal or commercial purposes — but the source code is closed and all rights are reserved. See LICENSE for the full terms. In short: use it freely, don't redistribute or repackage the installer elsewhere, don't reverse-engineer it.
Blinky is built by Bongovation — a Dhaka-based app development and design studio. Check out our other tools at bongovation.com.
Open an issue in this repo, or reach out through bongovation.com.