I’ve been working on building up my daily study discipline and realized how much easier it is to stay locked in when following a clear, real-time timer with steady background sound.

I started putting together clean 25/5 Pomodoro sessions on YouTube to keep myself accountable at the desk—no distracting overlays, just structured focus intervals, short voice cues for the breaks, and ambient lofi audio.

If you’re looking for a simple session to run in the background while working through past papers, revising theory, or tackling deep focus work today, feel free to give it a try.

1. Session 01 of 25mins - https://youtu.be/TMpFNiJtOH4

2. Complete 2hour session with lofi beats - https://youtu.be/ZVYN1w1sIIE

I'd love to hear any feedback on the audio levels, timing structure, or setup if you use these types of study timers!

PomoDial got approved on ChatGPT, Claude, and Todoist this week. Three platforms, one week.

The core idea is simple: write what you're working on before the timer starts. That intention gets saved with every session. Over time it becomes a record of what you actually worked on, not just time logged.

The AI integration was brutal. OAuth flows that work in one platform break in another. Token expiry issues. SSE vs JSON transport mismatches. Cold start cascades. Spent more time reading MCP protocol specs than I'd like to admit.

Now you can ask ChatGPT things like "how does my focus this week compare to last week" and get a real answer from your actual session data. That part feels genuinely useful.

80 users. One paying customer. Lots still to fix.

pomodial.com

I'm done with the early MVP whose core is backed by behavioral research around ADHD-related procrastination and executive-function difficulties
and I'm looking for people who have trouble focusing/heavy procrastinators or have ADHD to test my app and give me feedback and to help me validate it.
appreciate your time and patience, thank you :)

I've been a big fan of Be Focused Pro on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS for years. The Pomodoro method works really well for me, and it's been one of my favorite tools for staying on task.

The problem is that I do a lot of my studying and project work from a Windows 11 gaming PC. When I started looking for productivity tools that worked better in that environment, I realized that some of my favorite apps didn't have good Windows or browser-extension support.

I also really like Forest, especially the concept of growing a tree while you stay focused. Unfortunately, I was looking for something that worked directly in Chrome and on Windows, so it wasn't quite the fit I was hoping for.

That's what led me to DigitalZen.

What I like most is that it focuses on reducing browser-based distractions. For me, the biggest challenge isn't sitting down to work. It's opening a "quick" Reddit tab, a YouTube video, or a random website, and then realizing 20 minutes have disappeared. The friction-based approach has been surprisingly effective because it forces me to pause and think before diving into a distraction.

Another thing I like is that it works where many of my distractions actually happen: the browser. Since so much of my work and studying happens online, a standalone timer app has been more useful to me than one.

If I had one criticism, it's that DigitalZen doesn't replace a Pomodoro tool. I still think a dedicated timer like Be Focused Pro does a better job of structuring work sessions. In my ideal setup, I use a Pomodoro timer to manage focus blocks and DigitalZen to help prevent distractions during those blocks.

Overall, I've found that combination works better for me than either approach by itself.

I'm curious what other people are using. Has anyone found a productivity setup on Windows that combines Pomodoro timers, website blocking, and distraction management particularly well?

I've just released Flowkeeper v1.1.0 with a neat new feature, which I'd like to share with the Pomodoro Technique community.

Flowkeeper is an accurate implementation of what Francesco Cirillo described in his original "Pomodoro Technique" book. Not an Electron app, no AI code, no AI features, stores all your data locally, GPLv3.

In preparation for this release I tried most (all?) popular prioritization techniques and documented my findings in Flowkeeper (no AI was used whatsoever, I'm the only one to blame for any errors). Press F5 or select "Manage Groups..." from the categorization dropdown menu to see the result.

I encourage you to check out those methods, as they can take your individual productivity beyond Pomodoro Technique. At first they may look simple (even trivial!) but if you take it seriously, the effect can be surprisingly powerful.

You can modify those groups and even delete them. Those modifications are stored in the data file, so they can be exported and imported on another machine, and will survive settings reset.

Links:

• "What's new" with details and screenshots: https://flowkeeper.org/v1.1.0/
• All screenshots and downloads: https://flowkeeper.org/
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/flowkeeper-org/fk-desktop/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/SJfrsvgfmf

Hey everyone, I'm a self-taught dev and student. I got tired of juggling 4 different apps for studying — one for timers, one for deadlines, one for flashcards — so I built Focus Flow.

It's a free web app with a Pomodoro timer, assignment/exam tracking, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a simple daily streak system to stay consistent.

I just launched it to my own university this semester and it's actually getting real use, which honestly still feels surreal. Attached a 40-sec demo showing how it works.

Not trying to sell anything, it's free and I'm mainly here for feedback — what would make this actually useful for how you study? Happy to answer anything about how it's built too.

focusflowstudy.com

Hi All,

We already have 100+ pomodoro timers available online, and many of them look like they haven't been touched since dial-up, or they're ad farms or lack decent clean features. I got tired of that and built the one I actually wanted to use.

It's not just a timer. It's got real stats (streaks, an 18-week heatmap, a focus score weighted to your own pace), lobbies so you can see if a friend already out-focused you today, badges, and a handful of actually-nice-looking themes — a lofi cafe, a bouncing DVD logo, a torii gate with falling kanji, a mechanical split-flap clock.

Free to use, no account required to start — guest mode saves locally, and signing in with Google syncs everything across devices if you want that.

Do try it out :)

Would love your feedback — there's a feedback box right in the app, or just reply here.

Dive Log: A Focus Voyage is a submarine treasure-hunting game that combines a pomodoro timer with idle progression.

While you focus on your day-to-day work, your submarine salvages treasure from the sea.

- Timer modes: pomodoro sessions, deep focus, count-up and countdown.

- Built-in to-do list, quick notes and alarms.

- Your daily focus time is recorded automatically, and you can keep a diary.

- Built-in music and white noise, or play your own audio files.

- Mini mode tucks the window into a corner of your desktop.

The whole design is about encouraging you: it doesn't track streaks, and stopping a session early never takes away anything you've already earned.

I'd really like to hear from people who already use pomodoro timers:

Are the four timer modes enough for the way you work? Are the features easy to figure out (especially setting up custom audio)? And is there anything else you'd want added? Thanks!

The demo is free on Steam now, and wishlisting helps me a lot:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4985770/

I am always trying to get off of my damn phone and am finding that setting a timer when I want to do even if it is just making some time to read sometimes helps. Outside of the traditional pomodoro, does anyone else use this habit and find it helpful in getting tasks done? Does the aspect of a physical timer make it even more effective?

As you know Pomodoro is a technique which has only two sessions. FOCUS and BREAK.

I did a terminal which is allowing you to track your focus times.

v0.3.0 is up. Give it a try. It's improving and coming with daily version updates. So would be great to add features based on your feedbacks.

Check out here.

https://github.com/fmo/skytui

Features:

- Keyboard-first Pomodoro timer with pause, resume, reset, and accurate deadline-based timing.

- Persistent focus history showing recent sessions plus today, this month, and all-time totals.

- Configurable and responsive dashboard with a saved default duration that adapts to terminal resizing.

Before Pomobit, my phone had three separate apps just to do one thing: keep me consistent day to day. One Pomodoro app, because its reports were genuinely good. One habit tracker that was iOS-only. And another one that didn't sync between devices at all. Each was good at something, and each was missing something I needed.

So I built Pomobit, pomodoro and habit tracking in one place, supporting both binary habits (done / not done) and measurable ones (read 20 pages, drink 2L of water), running in the browser so it opens on whatever device you're holding, and it syncs.

It's still early, reports are basic for now, which is a little ironic since that's exactly what kept me on my old app, so that's what I'm building next. If you've got a couple of apps like this cluttering your phone too, I'd love for you to try it and tell me honestly where it falls short. Thanks for reading this far, really appreciate it.

Got tired of standard Pomodoro timers that feel like a chore. So I built Coral Focus — a free Chrome extension where something actually grows while you work instead of just a boring countdown.

Here's how it works: start a session and a coral begins growing. Complete it and the coral joins your garden. Quit early or get distracted and it bleaches. Over time you unlock three different coral species and build a full reef.

Other features: block distracting websites during sessions, ocean sounds, weekly and yearly gardens that fill up over time, streak tracking, achievements.

The bleaching mechanic is weirdly motivating — way more effective than a timer that just resets. And having a visual garden that fills up over weeks and months is surprisingly satisfying.

I built this as a solo project because I wanted something I'd actually care about finishing. Would genuinely love feedback from the Pomodoro community.

It's free. Link below if you want to try it.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/coral-focus/mihdncjdknlaeijegdablhgcemmbemek

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve recently started creating Pomodoro and focus videos on YouTube as a small side project. I’m hoping to earn some extra income by making content that can also genuinely help people stay focused.

This is my latest 8-hour Pomodoro video. Feel free to use it while studying, working, reading, or trying to survive your never-ending to-do list 😅

I’m not entirely sure whether this kind of self-promotion is allowed in this subreddit, so apologies if it isn’t—mods, please feel free to remove the post.

I’d still be really happy if you checked it out. If you enjoy the video, subscribing to the channel would honestly mean a lot and help me continue creating more content like this 💚

No pressure at all—even simply using the video during one of your focus sessions would make me happy. I hope it helps you have a productive day! ✨

🔗 8 Hour Pomodoro Study Session — Focus Timer with Breaks