Some employers require you to take a break when you reach a certain amount of working time per day. For example if you work more than 8 hours, you’ll need to take a break of 45 minutes. Effective working time will then be 07:15, because the break time is subtracted.
If you don’t want to stop the timer in Swipetimes while taking a break, you can setup automatic breaks. Once you reach your threshold time (8 hours in our example), Swipetimes will automatically add a break. Your daily working time, balance and time account will be affected by that break. However, the 45 minutes won’t be subtracted from project time - if you’ve worked on 5 projects, what project should be touched by the break?