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Pomodoro focus timers
Pomodoro and focus session timers across web, mobile, desktop and browser extensions, often with ambient sounds, stats, themes, companions or gamification, for students and workers who want to stay focused.
Built for: Students and knowledge workers
Projects since May 04
285
Different builders
273
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+15%
AI is the core
2.8%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (40%), web app (25%), desktop app (19%) · from r/SideProject, r/ShowYourApp, r/vibecoding, r/chrome_extensions
Latest
- Pops up reminders every 3-5 minutes when the user is not actively working to help maintain focus.“Found an old project in my files.”
- Puperino — Runs a pomodoro focus timer where a virtual dog naps during sessions and rewards the user with gifts and decorations.“made my first app, a pomodoro timer where a little dog falls asleep while you focus”
- Kaskas — Schedules screen break reminders and study sessions and tracks app usage locally on a Mac.“Kaskas, a Free open source macOS app for breaks, study sessions and activity tracking on your Mac”
- PauseWell — Reminds users to take short scheduled screen breaks on Windows, with adjustable intervals, snooze, and pause options.“I made PauseWell, a free Windows app that reminds you to take short screen breaks”
- Quiet Pomodoro — Runs Pomodoro focus timers on a single screen where labels and durations can be edited without navigating menus.“I have ADHD. The focus timers I use to help my ADHD are all too cluttered for my ADHD (ironic I know). So I made a really simple Pomodoro where you can do everything from one screen. Along with a web version (because I can't have my phone out at work)”
- CORTEX — Runs a 60-second reaction-time test each morning and tracks results against the user's own baseline.“CORTEX - A 60-second morning reaction test with your own baseline (iPhone)”
- Focus Room App — Runs shared Pomodoro focus sessions in groups and can block distracting websites during focus time.“Review my project: Focus Room App”
- Tallydial — Runs pomodoro and stopwatch timers logged against tasks and generates weekly, monthly and yearly time reports.“I kept rebuilding my week from memory for client timesheets, so I built a pomodoro timer that logs time per task”
- TinyPomo — Runs Pomodoro focus sessions where each completed session adds a piece to a moon base.“TinyPomo - a focus timer that builds a moon base”
- Simulates a spiral galaxy collapsing into a core over 25 minutes as a dark-mode Pomodoro timer video.“I coded a procedural galaxy particle simulation in Python to use as an OLED dark-mode Pomodoro timer”
- Focus Alchemist:Pomodoro — Runs Pomodoro, countdown, and stopwatch focus sessions, blocks distracting apps, and awards potions for completed sessions to grow a plant collection.“I’m an indie developer, and I’ve been working on a side project called Focus Alchemist:Pomodoro.”
- StayPup — Runs a focus timer where users earn rewards and unlock house areas and dog-themed activities as they work.“Made a focus timer tool for fun”
- Ctimer — Tracks the hours spent on work over a week.“Its not a job, its a hobby”
- Goal Time Tracker — Tracks time spent on personal goals with a floating timer overlay, daily streak dots, and weekly and monthly progress bars.“Goal Time Tracker — A distraction-free Windows timer with a floating overlay & 7-day streaks”
- Time Stopper Master — Tests and trains internal time perception by having users stop a timer on an exact millisecond target without looking.“I launched Time Stopper Master on Android to turn millisecond time-estimation into a gamified challenge. Looking for launch feedback!”
- Lunoupe — Floats a round desktop timer with a pixel avatar that works alongside the user during a task and wanders the screen during breaks.“I made a tiny pixel desk buddy that focuses with me, then smashes the timer when time's up”
- Telos — Runs timed focus blocks in which a virtual adventuring party is away for the set duration, and reveals what they brought back when the block ends.“I built a focus timer where opening the app is the one thing that doesn't help. Looking for ~8 iPhone testers who work in focus blocks”
- getpomodo — Runs a Pomodoro focus timer with 16 ambient sound layers that users mix themselves.“I built a focus timer where you mix your own ambient layers instead of pickinga playlist. Roast it — especially the retention.”
- Watches browsing during a focus sprint and escalates from quiet to remarks to roasts when the user drifts off their goal.“I built a pixel companion that lives on every page and roasts me when I start doomscrolling”
- Beside — Provides a browser-based virtual companion with focus timers, ambient sounds, and optional AI chat and spoken replies for work or study sessions.“Beside — a virtual companion for work and study. Looking for 3 beta testers.”
Most discussed
- Till Then — Tracks time remaining toward a chosen future event on the device.“Built for myself. Ended up #1 in App Store”
- CountdownShare — Creates shareable countdown timers for events and deadlines, with a paid Pro tier and API access.“100+ users/day, but nobody will pay!”
- Timepencil — Shows the time as a hand-drawn style glanceable illustration rather than digits.“A paper thing I drew each night during lockdown, turned into a clock app”
- FocusStack — Automatically tracks time spent across apps on macOS and Windows for productivity review.“Got 11,000 views and 100+ upvotes on Reddit. Still $0 in revenue. What am I missing?”
- Focusverse — Combines immersive background environments, ambient sounds, and radio with a timer, task list, week planner, and notes on one screen.“I built the focus space I wanted to study in and now people I don’t know are using it”
- Tug — Shows a menu bar timer as an animated frog that follows the cursor and reacts when pulled.“I built a timer that stares back at you”
- Orbis — Turns completed focus sessions into randomly graded celestial bodies placed in a private galaxy.“every focus session in my app spawns a random planet. this is my galaxy after 3 months.”
- Adds an on-screen AI character to web pages that can chat about the current page, runs a Pomodoro timer, and blocks distracting websites.“I spent 30 minutes making this and won 2.5k USD worth of OpenAI Codex credits”
- Timer AI — Creates timers from natural-language requests typed into a chat interface.“So I built my first app…”
- Pomofox — Runs a free Pomodoro timer with an optional paid tier for extra customization.“3k monthly visitors and $80 MRR. Would you focus on traffic or conversion?”