On Apple devices, it can work with Apple Music, but not Spotify, which is a shame. However, you can change to ticking sounds and even switch to music.

The timers can have a ticking sound which I find very distracting and had to turn them off. Some annoyances (at least for me) that you should know about before starting a timer are the sound options. If it doesn’t suit your needs, then you can change them to suit you. I thought I would keep all timings as the default, which is 25 minutes for focus or work time, 5 minutes short break, and 25 minutes long break which has worked out well for me. Instantly, it gave me a run-through of “Focus”, “Short Break” and “Long Break” timers. Out of intrigue, I decided to download it and give it a go. I entered “Pomodoro timer” in search and up came “Focus Keeper” (available on the Apple Store, and Android Store). This reinstated my interest, and I decided to take a look at the Apple App Store. Until last week when I listened to a fascinating podcast episode talking about Pomodoro apps. Browser-based Pomodoro timers were useless and lacking in so many features, so I gave up. Should I be working right now, or taking a break? If I move away from my browser and another program is on top, I can no longer see the time, and there was no sound. There was little to no explanation for what the time was for.

I’ve looked into Pomodoro timers in the past which were browser-based solutions, and they all sucked. This was great for the reward side, but it wasn’t great for when I needed to take a break.īecause of this issue, I stopped using it for a very long time and kept wondering to myself if there was something better suited. Then have this habit of whacking it up to the full amount of time to have a genuinely blossoming tree. Sometimes, I would use it non-stop for a whole week. However, at the end of my last article, I expressed that they could make things a little better like having a Pomodoro style added to it. In the past, I’ve used a timer called Forest and wrote about it before.

Pomodoro keeper