Pomodoro timer
that counts your rounds.

The whole cycle, not just twenty-five minutes: focus, a break, and a long one when you have earned it. Every length is yours to change.

Focus

1500 seconds left of Focus

Just need a plain countdown? 25 minute timer.

✦ Why it works

The trick is the ending, not the length.

Most of the difficulty in starting is that the task has no visible edge. “Write the report” is unbounded and therefore frightening; “work on the report until this ring empties” is a thing you can obviously do. The twenty-five minutes is not doing the work — the guaranteed stop is.

The break is the half people skip, and it is the half that makes the next round possible. Four blocks with real breaks beat three hours of grinding, and the person who did the former is still able to think at five o’clock.

✦ Making it yours

Twenty-five is a starting point.

15 / 5, for scattered attention

If focus arrives in bursts, a shorter block you finish beats a longer one you abandon. Fifteen is not a failure state.

25 / 5, the classic

The default for a reason: cheap to start, long enough to get somewhere, four of them fits a morning.

50 / 10, for deep work

Writing, code and analysis have a slow runway. Fifty minutes stops you being interrupted right as it starts working.

90 minutes, one cycle

Roughly the body’s own rhythm of alertness. Two of these is a serious day, and the break after has to be real.

Change the round count

Four before a long break is convention, not law. Three suits a shorter session; six suits an afternoon you have protected.

Nothing auto-starts

Each phase waits for you. A break that begins while you are still finishing a sentence is not a break.

✦ The gap this leaves

Four rounds today.
Four rounds on what?

This page counts your rounds and forgets them when you close the tab. That is fine for an afternoon and useless for a month — and the interesting question is never how many Pomodoros you did, it is which work they went into.

EvyOS runs the same cycle attached to a real task, a habit you are keeping or a skill you are logging hours against. The block ends and the minutes land on the record, so “I worked hard this month” becomes something you can check rather than something you feel.

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✦ Questions

The Pomodoro timer, answered.

Work for twenty-five minutes on one thing, then take a five-minute break. After four rounds, take a longer break of fifteen to thirty minutes. It is named after a tomato-shaped kitchen timer, and the mechanism is simple: a fixed, visible end makes starting much easier, and the enforced break stops a good stretch of focus turning into an exhausted one.

There is nothing magic about twenty-five. It is short enough that starting feels cheap and long enough to get past the fidgeting. If your work has a longer runway, forty-five or fifty with a ten-minute break suits it better; if your attention arrives in bursts, fifteen beats both. Every length here is adjustable, including how many rounds come before the long break.

The timer moves to the break by itself and the round is added to the dots under the phase. Focus and breaks end on deliberately different sounds, so being called back does not sound like being sent away. Nothing auto-starts: each phase waits for you, because a break that begins while you are still typing is not a break.

Pause, deal with it, and resume. The traditional advice is to void the whole Pomodoro on any interruption, which is a good habit for protecting the block and a bad one for actually finishing your day. Skip is there too, and skipping out of focus deliberately does not earn a round: the dots are a record of work done, not of buttons pressed.

Yes. Every phase counts to a real end time rather than adding up ticks, so a background tab, a locked phone or a sleeping laptop cannot make it drift.

Completely. No account, no card, no download and no ads. An EvyOS account only matters if you want the rounds recorded against the work they were for.

Pomodoro timerthat counts your rounds.