Focus Timer for Mac

Most focus timers are productivity apps pretending to be simple. They track your focus score. They chart your week. They want you to create an account and sync your data to the cloud. They charge you every month.

You wanted a timer. You got a dashboard.

What a focus timer should actually do

Start a timer. Distractions go away. Timer ends. Distractions come back. That's it.

Pomotto is a focus timer for macOS that does exactly this. When you start a work session, it activates Do Not Disturb automatically. No notifications, no banners, no pings. When your break starts, notifications come back. You don't touch a single setting.

What you get

• Automatic Do Not Disturb — macOS notifications silenced during work, restored on break. No manual toggling.
• Menu bar timer — always visible in your menu bar. Never covers your work.
• Custom durations — set your own work and break lengths. 25/5, 50/10, whatever works for you.
• Gentle chime — a sound when the session ends. Not aggressive, not easy to miss.
• Ambient sounds — rain, ocean, cafe, fireplace, and more built in. No extra app needed.
• Keyboard shortcuts — start and stop from the keyboard.
• Smart filtering — calls from favorites and repeat callers still get through DND.
• Native macOS app — built for Mac. Fast, lightweight, no Electron.

What you don't get

• No focus scores or productivity percentages
• No account creation
• No cloud sync
• No weekly reports emailed to you
• No integrations with 40 other apps

These aren't missing features. They're features we chose not to build. A focus timer should help you focus, not give you more things to check.

$2.99, once

No subscription. You pay once and the app is yours. No trial that expires. No "free tier" that nags you to upgrade. No pricing page with three columns.

Subscriptions make sense for services that cost money to run. A timer on your Mac costs nothing to run. So we don't charge like it does.

The one feature that matters

Automatic Do Not Disturb is the reason Pomotto exists. Every other timer makes you silence notifications yourself. You forget. A Slack message pops up. You "just check it." Twenty minutes gone.

Pomotto removes that decision. Start the timer, your Mac goes quiet. That's the whole point.