Introduction

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit. Please refer to the feature comparison for a complete list of features, and how the program performs with respect to other programs on the market. The program runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Latest news

Workrave 1.8.5 released (2007-09-28): Task manager is never blocked by Workrave, workaround for focus loss on Vista, Vanja Cvelbar translated Workrave into Slovenian, fixed breaks that have 'suspend timer when inactive' disabled, improved Windows responsiveness under high load, mode menu fixed, Gnome applet no longer 'hangs', Gnome applet no longer crashes Workrave, fixed crashes during startup on Windows, fixed 'end-of-microbreak' sound, fixed bug in multi-head support where Workrave showed multiple windows on a single screen, fixed locking on Gnome with xscreensaver installed. Many thanks to Ray Satiro for his contributions in this release.
Workrave 1.8.4 released (2007-03-03): This version contains many new translations: Italian (Eraldo Girardi), Chinese (Tao Wei), Slovak (Peter Tuharsky), Greek (Prokopis Prokopidis), Turkish (Enver Altin), Japanese (Masanobu Yokota), Bulgarian (Ivan Dimov), Hungarian (Ory Mate). Furthermore, more polish on the applets was done (e.g. vertical applet support), and the usual bug fixing.
Greek leaflet and upcoming translation (2006-12-19): The leaflet is now also available in Greek. Furthermore, the next version will also feature a complete Greek translation of Workrave. Thanks, Prokopis Prokopidis.