Focus
25:00
Focus
25:00
Twenty-five minutes of work, five of rest, and a long break every four rounds. The clock runs the cycle for you: you do not have to touch anything between blocks.
The hands show the time that is left, not the time of day. With eighteen minutes to go, the minute hand points at eighteen and works its way down to twelve. The coloured arc around the dial drains at the same rate, so you can tell how far along you are without reading the numbers.
Each phase has its own colour: orange while you focus, green on the short break, amber on the long one. The dots under the clock show how many blocks you have done in the current round.
The 25/5 split is the classic, not a rule. In settings you can pick one of four ready-made rhythms or set your own:
Behind the Tasks tab there is a small planner. Add what you are working on, estimate how many blocks it will take, and every completed block is counted against the active task.
It stays deliberately out of the way. The timer is the product; the planner is there when you want it and invisible when you do not. Everything is stored in your own browser, with no account.
Francesco Cirillo developed it in the late 1980s using a tomato-shaped kitchen timer, which is where the name comes from. The idea is simple: work is split into short, closed blocks, and during each block you handle exactly one task. When it rings, you rest, even if you are halfway through something.
The hard part is not focusing for twenty-five minutes, it is respecting the break. Those five minutes exist so the next block starts with a clear head, not so you can get ahead.
Yes. The sound is generated inside the page itself and keeps working in the background. The only condition is that you have pressed a button beforehand: browsers block audio until there has been an interaction.
Yes. Open settings and set whatever durations you want for focus, short break and long break, plus how many blocks come before the long break. They are saved in your browser for next time.
No. The countdown is measured against the system clock, not by adding up intervals. Even if the browser freezes the tab, the time shown is correct when you come back.
While the timer is running, the page asks the system to keep the screen awake. You can leave it visible on a tablet or a second monitor.
Only your preferred durations and your task list, and only in your own browser. There is no server and no account: the whole timer runs on your device, and it works offline once the page has loaded.