Write down what you are working on and how many pomodoros you think it needs. Choose one and every finished pomodoro is added to it, with a running estimate of how much is left and when you would finish.
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Pomodoro Timer
Work in focused stretches with breaks between them. Set your own lengths, keep a task list, choose a scene or your own photo behind the timer, and put piano, jazz or lo-fi music on while you work.
Quick guide
How to use this tool
Choose Pomodoro, Short Break or Long Break, then press Start, or tap the space bar. The countdown keeps going through a reload, Pause holds it, and Skip moves on to the next session early.
Write what you are working on under Task, say how many Pomodoros you think it needs, and press Add task. Choose a task and every finished pomodoro is counted against it.
Scene changes the picture behind the clock or puts a photo of your own there, Full screen hides everything else, and Settings holds the session lengths, the alarm, the background music and the alerts.
How to use this tool
Choose Pomodoro, Short Break or Long Break, then press Start, or tap the space bar. The countdown keeps going through a reload, Pause holds it, and Skip moves on to the next session early.
Write what you are working on under Task, say how many Pomodoros you think it needs, and press Add task. Choose a task and every finished pomodoro is counted against it.
Scene changes the picture behind the clock or puts a photo of your own there, Full screen hides everything else, and Settings holds the session lengths, the alarm, the background music and the alerts.
Focus, then a proper break
Twenty-five minutes at a time, or however long suits you.
The method is simple: work for one stretch, stop for a short break, and take a longer one every few rounds. Everything about that is adjustable here, because a 25 minute default suits some work and not other work.
Nine scenes drawn by the browser, from a city dusk to a night sky, sakura and a quiet paper sheet, each changing colour between focus and break. Or use a photo of your own, dimmed and blurred as much as you like.
Calm piano, late-night jazz or a lo-fi beat, composed note by note by your own browser: royalty-free by construction, nothing to download, and no phrase repeats exactly, so there is no hook to catch your attention. Rain, waves, brown noise, a fireplace, a forest and a café are there too.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Pomodoro technique?
Work in one focused stretch, traditionally 25 minutes, then take a short break of about 5 minutes. After four of those stretches, take a longer break of 15 to 30 minutes. The short cycle keeps attention fresh and gives you an obvious place to stop, which is often the harder part.
Can I change the lengths?
Yes, all of them. Set the pomodoro, short break and long break anywhere from 1 to 180 minutes, and choose how many pomodoros come before a long break. Fifty minutes of work with a ten minute break suits some people better than the classic 25 and 5.
Will the timer keep going if I switch tabs or reload the page?
Yes. The countdown is worked out from the system clock rather than by counting ticks, so a background tab, a sleeping laptop or a reload cannot make it drift, and a running session is picked up where it was. Keep the tab open so the alarm can ring, and turn on Notify me to be told in another tab.
Can I use my own picture as the background?
Yes. Choose Use my own photo and pick any image up to 8 MB, then set how much it is dimmed and blurred so the numbers stay readable. The picture is kept by your browser only, is never uploaded, and Remove deletes it.
Where does the focus music come from, and can I use it?
Your browser plays it. Calm piano, late-night jazz and the lo-fi beat are not recordings: the page works out the chords and the notes and sounds them with the Web Audio API, so there is no file to download, no stream to buffer, and nothing anyone owns. It is royalty-free because nobody recorded it, which also means it never repeats exactly and cannot be claimed or taken down.
Can I play Spotify or YouTube through it?
Not yet. That needs an account connection and an embedded player from another site, which this page deliberately does not load, so it is marked as coming soon. In the meantime there are three pieces of music and six ambient sounds made in the browser, each with its own volume and the option to keep playing through breaks.
How do the task estimates work?
Give each task the number of pomodoros you expect it to take. Pick one as the task you are on and each finished pomodoro is added to it. Underneath, the list adds up what is left, including the breaks that come with it, and shows roughly what time you would finish.
Where did the settings go?
Behind the Settings button, because a focus timer with a wall of fields beside it is a poor focus timer. Settings holds the session lengths, the automatic starts, the alarm, the background music and the alerts. The scene lives behind Theme on the timer itself, so it can still be changed in full screen.
Why did no sound play when the timer ended?
Browsers only allow sound after you have tapped or clicked the page, so press Start yourself rather than leaving a timer running from a previous visit, check the volume here and on your device, and use Test sound to hear the alarm first. A phone in silent mode may mute it.