StretchClock

Doing some stretching can never be a bad thing, and doing so regularly can be very beneficial for your health. Reminding yourself to stretch every 30 minutes or so is great, but it's easy to forget or delay stretching, to the point where you're barely doing it a few times a week, if that.

Add that you're working on the computer, and it's easy to lose track of everything. Software applications to remind you to take a break every now and then can help, and that's precisely what StretchClock was made for.

A break time reminder app might sound like a silly idea. After all, I can stop and take breaks whenever I want to, right? While that may work for some, others lose themselves in their work so much that they forget to take a break, thus neglecting their body.

By default, the program will start counting down 30 minutes. After those minutes are up, you'll have to take a break and do some stretching. While at it, the program will recommend a stretching exercise for you to do. This comes in the form of a video, which users should be able to follow easily.

While the recommended video is randomized, you can find a selection of clips with stretching exercise ideas in the Exercise menu. It is not possible to watch a specific video without a license, however.

If you find stretching reminders each 30 minutes much too frequent, you can modify the timer to be more in line with your preferences. If you want to get more particular, it's also possible to organize a stretching schedule.

More pointedly, you can integrate your stretching schedule into your work time. As such, if you work from 9AM to 5PM, the software will adapt and recommend some brief stretching exercises to do during that time frame.

StretchClock is an app that can remind the user to take care of themselves, and It does so in a quite intuitive way: the stretching videos are a nice touch, and the app is designed in such a way that any user can take advantage of its feature set.