Focus app doesn't have to feel cold or boring.
When you enter focus mode, a cat appears on the chair keeping you company. With a hand-drawn style and rich colors, Cat On Chair brings you a cozy, aesthetic pomodoro focus experience. The cat isn't only there to "supervise"; they're sharing the moment with you.
Stay motivated with gifts and rewards.
Complete a session, and your cat will bring you a gift. Fail, and you may be left with a little trash.
Gifts can be traded for fish, which unlock furniture and decorations for your cat's room. Seasonal updates bring new gifts, decor, and even more cats to collect.
Attention: May cause increased productivity, spontaneous cat adoption urges, and the inexplicable need to explain your work schedule to a digital pet.
Basic Features (Free Version)
- No ads
- Support for both Pomodoro and count-up modes
- Collect gifts and trash, sell for fish to buy new furniture and decor
- Block apps and websites to avoid interruptions
- Use a whitelist to pick the apps you want to use during focus sessions
- Note down your important tasks in a to-do list with due dates and reminders
- Focus Timeline to see today's sessions at a glance
- Stats overview to track your overall progress
- Export your cat's room as wallpaper to save your focus moments
- With Shortcuts, you can create automation to start a focus session whenever you need
- Earn achievements to show off in your cat's room
- Lock screen widget to start a session without unlocking the phone
- iCloud multi-device sync—seamlessly switch between iPhone and iPad
Upgrade to Pro for More Features
- Mix and match ambient sounds—cat purring, rain, fireplace, waves, café chatter—to create your perfect atmosphere
- Record your own custom alert sounds for session notifications
- Write custom cat quotes for session completion and failure messages
- Call your cat by name using your voice—they'll react when they hear you
- Apple Watch companion app—start, pause, and track sessions from your wrist
- Focus Timeline with full history—browse any date and add stickers to your timeline
- Detailed statistics: see your progress in day, week, month, and year view
- Sync focus sessions to Apple Health, Calendar, and Reminders
- Unlock different coat styles for your cats—change their look anytime
- Save and switch between whitelist presets for different focus scenarios
- More exclusive gifts, decorations, chairs, carpets, and room items
- Customize break length, cycles, and long breaks
- Add custom focus tags for better task management
- Multiple cat-themed app icons—change anytime to match your mood
- Home screen widgets: to-do list, focus status, and animated cat widgets
Currently supports iOS 17 and above.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you:
Email: hello@catonchair.app
Discord: catonchair.app/discord
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Privacy Policy: https://catonchair.app/en/privacy
Terms of Services: https://catonchair.app/en/terms
Cat On Chair is by far the best Pomodoro style focus app I’ve ever used. I don’t write reviews, but this was too impressive to just stay quiet. The free version gives you exactly what you need and absolutely no ads. I appreciate this app so much that I’m upgrading to the paid version because I’m blown away by the features. The cats are adorable and the ambient sounds are excellent. I love that I can control the volume and the percentage of the ambients sounds. Huge benefit is whitelist the music app so that I can also listen to my Lofi study while listening to the purring sounds of the Cat on chair. Super cozy when I’m at work and can’t have my real cat to keep me company. Thank you for creating this app!!
Cute Timer with Room for Growth
WildeIrelande
I’ve tried many focus timers and so far I’ve been enjoying this one. I like that it doesn’t utilize language like “quit” which can come across judgmental. The art is incredibly cute and I find the premise engaging enough. I like that the image of the room can be saved and even used as a wallpaper.I do hope they add more customization options that can be unlocked through consistent usage of the app. It would be great to have more cats (like Siamese), chairs, windows with weather selections (like rain, snow, falling leaves), fireplaces, etc to create a cozy image. It would also be nice if the ambient sounds could still be available while listening to podcasts. There are some apps that allow that which I would find helpful since I don’t listen to only ambient sounds while working or when needing a focus timer.I will continue to use the app for a bit and hope more is added for continued use.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your support. We just released a new update with many new cats, furnitures, ambient sounds. You can get most of the items by using the app and get gifts from your cat. We recently updated the app to allow listen to podcast while the ambient sound is on. Hope you will enjoy it.
Perfect aesthetic
mariposaoruga
This app is *actually* as cute as it looks! I love the design and simplicity!! It's practically the perfect timer that suits my needs but I find that I am not using it as much as I would really really like to because at the moment there is no Mac/desktop app. When I'm in focus mode I would prefer not to have to rely on my phone for keeping track of that time. I do have the widget on my laptop's home screen, but it opens the app up in iphone mirroring. Will there be some sort of Mac/web version on the future?
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your support. We have plan for Mac app, it’s coming early next year. We are working on Apple Watch version first.
Love this app!!!
GoobyGoon
I’m a huge cat lover myself so this app is perfect! Really love all the cool features and the customization options. Looking forward to seeing more customization updates in the future. I would recommend this app to anyone looking for a focusing app that helps you but also is cute & fun. The pro subscription is worth it, although there is still plenty of options for the free version, I personally purchased the lifetime option
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the support! We are glad you enjoyed your experience. We will release more cute cats and stuffs soon!
Features
New Ambient Sounds: Added bird, library, keyboard, and flipbook sounds to the sound mixer.
Sound Mixer Redesign: Refreshed sound mixer layout for a cleaner look.
Stats Charts: New trend lines and session range charts in your statistics.
Bug Fixes
Audio Fix: Fixed the app pausing music from other apps on launch.
Ambient Sound Fix: Ambient sounds now start playing immediately when breaks begin.
Todo Fix: Fixed tapping the todo list causing the app to become unresponsive on iOS 18.
Notification Sound Fix: Fixed notification sound playing twice when the app is in foreground.
Shop Fix: You can now preview multiple locked items across categories without losing your selection.
Font Fix: Fixed shop item titles using the wrong font for Traditional Chinese.
Tag Selection Fix: Custom tag selection now persists when relaunching the app.
Performance: Faster app launch with optimized loading.
Version 1.6.1
The developer, Ryan Yao, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Cat On Desk Design Inc.
Size
739.6 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Languages
English and 6 more
English, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese