Fact sheet

App: Glimt
What it is: A desktop app that reminds you to breathe during the workday and pauses during calls.
Price: $39 one-time purchase, no subscription.Business licences $28 per seat, minimum 5 seats.
Platforms: macOS 13 or later · Windows 10 or later
Current version: 1.3.1
First release: April 2026 (v0.7.2)
Developer: Glimt, Norway
Website: glimtapp.io
Download: glimtapp.io/#download
Press contact: hello@glimtapp.io

About Glimt

One sentence

Glimt is a breathing reminder app for Mac and Windows that guides you through a short breathing exercise during the workday and pauses itself while you’re on a call.

One paragraph

Glimt is a desktop app for people who spend long days at a computer and forget to breathe properly while they work. At an interval you set, a breathing orb appears over whatever you’re doing and paces you through a short exercise such as box breathing or 4-7-8, then gets out of the way. It pauses automatically when your microphone or camera is in use, so it never interrupts a call. Glimt runs on macOS 13 and Windows 10 or later and costs $39 once, with no subscription.

Full story

Long stretches of focused screen work tend to make breathing shallow and irregular, and most people only notice once they are already tense. Breathing apps exist, but most live on a phone and depend on the user remembering to open them.

Glimt lives on the desktop, where the work happens, and does the remembering. It sits in the menu bar on macOS and the system tray on Windows, and within the active hours you choose it shows a breathing prompt over your work. A short countdown settles you in, an animated orb paces each inhale, hold and exhale, and the session ends on its own. Snooze and skip are always one click away.

Smart Pause detects when the microphone or camera is active and holds reminders until the call is over; it only checks whether the devices are in use and never records audio or video. Micro reminders are a lighter option: a small orb in the corner of the screen guides a few breaths and fades away without a click. Playlists chain several breathing patterns into one longer session, and statistics and streaks show how many sessions you complete against a daily goal. On macOS, sessions can run Apple Shortcuts when they start or end, for example to pause music or turn on a Focus mode.

Glimt is made in Norway. A personal licence costs $39 as a one-time purchase with no subscription; business licences cost $28 per seat for teams of 5 or more.

Key features

01Glimt shows a guided breathing exercise over your work at an interval you choose, only within the active hours you set.
02Glimt pauses reminders automatically while the microphone or camera is in use, and never records audio or video.
03Glimt includes box breathing, 4-7-8 and a simple 5-5 rhythm, and lets you create your own patterns with custom inhale, hold and exhale timings.
04Glimt’s micro reminders show a small orb in the corner of the screen that guides a few breaths and disappears without a click.
05Glimt playlists combine several breathing patterns into one longer session.
06Glimt tracks completed sessions, streaks and a daily goal in a built-in statistics view.