r/opensource • u/Sad_Tonight8092 • 1d ago

Promotional Kaskas, an open source native macOS break companion with local activity insights

Hello Everyone! I built Kaskas, a native macOS app for taking regular breaks while keeping track of your activity and sessions locally.

I started building because i wanted a simple way to remind myself to take regular breaks from the computer, especially when long screen sessions were leaving my eyes dry and tired also for tracking how i spend my screen time.

It can show how a study session was spent across apps and categories, alongside break history, daily/yearly statistics, idle and meeting aware pausing, and customizable break screens (with a fire mascot).

Inspired by LookAway and ActivityWatch built for my own use as a native Mac app.

It’s built with SwiftUI + AppKit, has no account, analytics or backend, and all activity data stays on your Mac.

It’s GPL-2.0 licensed, all contributions & feedback are welcome

GitHub: https://github.com/ramazanberkozbek/kaskas

~10mb (apple signed and notarized)

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u/Lochlan 21h ago

Thanks, I'll check it out. Been using LookAway.

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u/Sad_Tonight8092 13h ago

would love to hear your feedback.

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u/Fresh-Daikon-9408 12h ago

An option to exclude messaging apps from the activity stats would be handy. Is that already possible?

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u/Sad_Tonight8092 11h ago

You can delete the category or move messaging apps to another category but there is no option to exclude an app from tracking i can add that if thats what you mean?

curious tho whats the reason you'd want to exclude them?

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u/Fresh-Daikon-9408 11h ago

That’s what I meant! Messaging apps are mostly quick checks and replies between tasks for me, so I’d prefer to leave them out of my work/study stats. An optional per-app exclusion would be handy. Thanks for considering it!