Eyes Guard

What is Eyes Guard?

Eyes Guard is a Windows Application for protecting your eyes. It will help you (also can force you!) to break if you are working with your PC for a long time using configurable times.

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Windows 10/11 (Official with latest features)

[!NOTE]
EyesGuard will no longer distribute its packages via Microsoft Store. You need to install the package manually using the instruction below:

📦 Method 1: Use the command-line WinGet tool (recommended):

Use WinGet command-line tool:

winget install -s winget Avestura.EyesGuard

📦 Method 2: Use the graphical setup (recommended):

1. 🟩 Download the latest setup form the Releases section.
   • For x64 systems: EyesGuard-Setup-VERSION-x64.exe
   • For x86 systems: EyesGuard-Setup-VERSION-x86.exe
2. Run the setup and install EyesGuard.

🪟 Method 3: Use Windows Store Package (needs Developer mode to be enabled):

1. Enable Developer Mode from Settings > System > For Developers
2. 🟩 Download the latest package form the Releases section.
   • For x64 systems: EyesGuard.release.x64.zip
   • For x86 systems: EyesGuard.release.x86.zip
3. Unzip the package.
4. Find the certificate file with .cer extension and open it.
5. Click Install Certificate > Local Machine > Place certificate in following store > pick Trusted People
6. Open the installation package with .appx extension and install Eyes Guard.

Windows 7 (Unofficial Fork, not latest)

Download from ExplorerOL’s GitHub

Any Screenshots?

Control Panel

Settings

Notify Icon

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What features does it have?

Feature	Implementation State	Is live on store version?
Short Break	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Long Break	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Timing Customization	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Stas	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Pause or Stop protection	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Windows Tray Integration	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Auto Start	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Customize messages	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes
Multi-language	✔ Implemented	✔ Yes

How can I help?

Eyes Guard is a free and open-source app. If you like it, please consider:

• ⭐ Star this project in GitHub
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• 👩‍💻 Contribute to Software Development of Eyes Guard
• ✏ Translate app to your language using guide below

Supported Languages

	Language	Locale	Translator
	English	en-US	Aryan Ebrahimpour, Gianpaolo Filippa, Akash Joshi
	Persian	fa-IR	Aryan Ebrahimpour
	Italian	it-IT	Gianpaolo Filippa
	French	fr-FR	Bouillon Pierre
	Russian	ru-RU	Dmitry Vorobjev
	Norwegian	nb-NO	Thomas Rory Gummerson
	Tamil	ta-IN	Muthu Kumar
	Korean	ko-KR	Sung Jae Cho
	Chinese	zh-CN	Qixiny
	Turkish	tr-TR	Furkan KARADENİZ
	German	de-DE	Marco Heinisch
	Polish	po-PO	Bartlomiej Szmolke
	Ukrainian	uk-UA	Yaroslav Shaposhnyk
	Greek	el-GR	Alexandros Koulelis
	Brazilian Portuguese	pt-BR	Daniel Alexandre Boaventura
	Arabic	ar-EG	Mahmoud Elgohary
	Add Language		You

Can I contribute?

PRs are very welcome!

You can contribute to software development and/or create translations for the app.

How to contribute to translating app

Method 1 : using GitHub

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Adding a new Language:

1. Go to Languages folder and create a new yaml file with name {StandardCountryCode}.yml like en-US.yml or fa-IR.yml. Here is a List of country codes you can pick.
2. Copy the content of en-US.yml to the new created file.
3. In the meta part of yaml edit the Translators array. Remove the existing translators in the copied file and just put information of yourself.
4. Translate the Translation section of file and make a PR!

Modifying a translation file:

1. Go to Languages and find the language you want to edit using its standard locale.
2. In the meta part of yaml and in the Translators array, add yourself as a new translator without removing others from the list.
3. Make your changes in the Translation section and make a PR!

Method 2 : using Email

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Use the links mentioned in above method, modify/add translation file, then email it to me: Oxaryan@outlook.com

📜 RTL Languages

For right-to-left languages like Persian, Arabic, etc. It is not needed to explicitly state language layout in the meta section. Simply use a standard country code, and the app automatically detects if it has right-to-left direction or not and changes the design of elements in app.

📐 Solution Structure

Project Name	Language	Description
EyesGuard	C#	Main Application (at the time of starting project I didn’t know F# to write the app entirely in F#)
EyesGuard.Data	F#	Type Provider and Data Access / Translations
StorePackage		Used to publish WPF app into Store

🔨 Build

You need Paket Package manager for .NET to restore the packages.

git clone https://github.com/avestura/EyesGuard
cd .\EyesGuard
paket install
cd .\Source\EyesGuard
dotnet run