## Chosen by Over 2.5 Million Users Worldwide
## Featured by App Store in 150+ Countries & Regions
## iOS 26 App Store Featured App
## The Best Focus Timer Apps
FocusPomo is a Pomodoro-based time management app with a minimal and beautiful design, powerful features, and a rewarding sense of progress.
Our mission is to improve and protect your attention. That’s why we don’t simply pile on features, and we don’t use addictive game-like rewards. FocusPomo is built to help you focus on one thing at a time.
## When you may need FocusPomo
1. You work hard, but still don’t feel real progress
2. Your study or work efficiency feels low
3. You get distracted easily and want to reduce procrastination
4. Important things keep getting delayed
5. You want to become more disciplined
6. You want different parts of your life to gradually get better
7. You have many things you want to do, but keep making slow progress
## FocusPomo Core Features
1. Real-time sync across all platforms. Sync through iCloud across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, so your focus data always stays up to date.
2. A simple and easy-to-use focus timer. No flashy design, no complicated distractions. Everything is designed for a better focus experience.
3. Cute little tomatoes that make focus feel rewarding. Every completed Pomodoro gives you a cute little tomato. Your tomatoes accumulate each week, making effort more visible without turning focus into a distracting game. Tomatoes also support motion response and haptic feedback (motion response is currently supported on iOS only).
4. Powerful focus statistics. View focus trends, Pomodoro insights, and detailed data across different tasks and time ranges.
5. Calendar timeline. Reflection helps you improve. View your focus time distribution by one day, two-day comparison, or one week.
6. Optimized for iPad and Mac large screens. View more useful information and enjoy a focus experience designed for larger screens.
7. Mac support. View timer status, focus task, and today’s focus data from the menu bar. Start, pause, or end focus sessions without opening the app.
8. Apple Watch App that works independently. No iPhone needed. Start a timer, create or edit focus tasks, and manage focus directly on Apple Watch.
## FocusPomo Design Philosophy
1. Focus. We don’t build an all-in-one product. We focus on time management and help make your effort truly pay off.
2. Simplicity. Simplicity is not the goal. It is the result. Every feature and detail is carefully researched, considered, and refined.
3. Warmth. FocusPomo hopes to become a small quiet space for you, staying with you through your effort, focus, and growth.
## More Features
* App blacklist to block distracting apps
* Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, and interactive widgets
* Live Activities and Dynamic Island
* Landscape StandBy mode for focus sessions
* Custom countdown timer
* Stopwatch mode with pause support
* Different focus tags can have different focus durations
* Apple Health sync
* Manually add focus time
* Custom Pomodoro cycles, long breaks, and short breaks
* Custom focus tags
* Extend focus sessions
* Alarm reminders
* Focus trends by task and time range
* Calendar timeline by 1 day, 2 days, or 1 week
* Optimized for iPad and Mac large screens
* The current Lifetime plan includes all future updates, including Watch and Mac
* And many more features
## 6000+ reviews from users around the world, 59000+ five-star ratings
“No bloat, no unnecessary features fighting for attention — just clean timers that keep me locked in.”
“Collecting Pomodoros makes it a fun and unique experience.”
“Simple but deep”
“Helps me stay on track working from home.”
“One of the very few apps I’ve kept in my phone… Definitely worth the penny.”
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I’ve been using Focuspomo for my study sessions, and it really helps me stay focused. But I’d like to suggest a new feature — a Reverse Pomodoro Mode — where the timer starts from 00:00 and counts up instead of down.The idea is simple: instead of setting a fixed study time, I start the timer and stop it whenever I feel I’ve reached my focus limit. Then, depending on how long I studied, the app could suggest an appropriate rest period. For example, if I studied for 1 hour (00:00–1:00:00), the app could recommend a 30-minute break.This would be super helpful for students like me who have different focus limits each day. It feels more natural and less pressured compared to a fixed countdown timer — kind of like “study until your brain says enough.”I believe this feature would make Focuspomo even more flexible and motivating for people who want to track their productivity without feeling controlled by the clock.
Dynamic Island Issue
vvalenw
FocusPomo has a clean concept and is genuinely useful for Pomodoro sessions, but there’s a clear issue with how it behaves in the Dynamic Island on iPhone.The problem specifically happens when no session is active. During an active Pomodoro, everything works as expected—you can switch between FocusPomo and other Live Activities like music smoothly. That part is well done.However, once the session ends (or when no session is running at all), FocusPomo still stays in the Dynamic Island—and this is where it breaks the experience.Even when it’s blank and inactive, it continues to take the main Live Activity slot and cannot be switched out. Unlike timer and music, which can seamlessly swap places by swiping, FocusPomo gets “stuck” as the primary displayed activity. It won’t switch with music or other apps, making the Dynamic Island feel locked and unresponsive.So the issue isn’t just that it’s always there—it’s that when it’s inactive, it behaves incorrectly. It holds priority without function and blocks other Live Activities from being displayed properly. That makes it feel buggy or unfinished rather than intentional.Suggested Improvement:FocusPomo should fully remove itself from the Dynamic Island when no session is active, or at least behave like other Live Activities and allow seamless switching. Ideally, there should also be a toggle in settings to enable or disable its Dynamic Island presence when inactive.Right now, it works well during active use—but outside of that, it disrupts the normal Dynamic Island behavior and hurts the overall experience.
Great! Want break timer in stopwatch, and a pie chart data display❤️🥧
Fifthnoelle
Feature suggestion: When in stopwatch mode, can there be an option where the break minutes also apply when I pause it?I love the simplicity of this and how straightforward it is. I love the pomos I collect. But as someone else said, it would be nice to have more data displayed. I would really want a pie chart, since it's a good way to see ratios of my time spent compared with other activities.
Cute, But…
ambersabanga
Honestly, I love using the app because it’s simple and direct to the point. Plus, the haptic feeling I get when the pomodoros bump with each other is so fun and engaging! The only thing I do not like is how my pomodoros disappear after only a week. It makes me feel like my effort disappeared too and it makes me lose the will to use the app. Please put an option to keep all the pomodoros. Or if that’s not possible, maybe create an option to keep it for a week or a month. I like the idea of the pomodoros accumulating! It’s validating HAHA.
This update mainly improves the Mac menu bar experience and fixes several known issues.
Restored whitelist support
Mac menu bar now supports quick focus duration selection, with commonly used time options
Mac menu bar now supports quickly selecting recently used focus tasks
Adjusted the position of “Skip Break” in the Mac menu bar for easier access
Improved Mac menu bar wording, such as changing “Show App” to “Open App” for better clarity
Improved the UI layout of the Mac mini window
Fixed an issue where notifications could not be enabled on some Mac models
Fixed an issue where the app could not be opened in Stage Manager on Mac
Fixed an issue where tomatoes might not appear after resizing the Mac window
Version 5.2.2
The developer, FocusPomo Apps, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Provider
FocusPomo Apps Co., Ltd.
Size
184.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.1 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Languages
English and 5 more
English, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
