Mandala for macOS
Rest your eyes.
Watch a mandala being drawn.
A menu bar app that schedules screen breaks and fills them with a slowly hand-drawn line mandala — a reason to stop that is worth looking at.
7-day free trial. No account, no telemetry.
How a break unfolds
- 1
A quiet heads-up
Thirty seconds before a break, a notification gives you time to finish a thought — or snooze by one, five, or fifteen minutes.
- 2
The screen becomes paper
The break screen takes over and a mandala begins to draw itself, stroke by stroke. Nothing to click, nothing to read.
- 3
Back when you are
The break ends on its own. If you stepped away, Mandala notices and counts the rest you actually took.
Calm defaults, honest knobs
- Smart pause
- Breaks hold off while you watch video, present, or record your screen.
- Snooze budgets
- Cap snoozes per break and per day, so postponing stays honest.
- Streaks and reports
- A local log of breaks taken, with streaks that reward showing up.
- Gallery
- Every mandala you sat through is kept — a record of rest, not work.
- Twelve ink palettes
- Classic blue, graphite, sepia, ocean, forest, plum, and more, on paper or dark.
- Also a screensaver
- The same hand-drawn mandalas, as a native macOS screensaver.
Everything stays on your Mac. Your break log, your gallery, your settings — no telemetry, no account. The only network call is a quick license check when you activate.