Twenty-five minutes. The classic rhythm.
Twenty-five minutes of focus, then five to breathe. Start when you are ready.
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Focus 1 of 4
Make time for yourself
Twenty-five minutes of focus followed by a five-minute break is the classic Pomodoro interval. This page sets exactly that, with a fifteen-minute long break after four rounds.
Choose one task and press Start focusing. Work until the countdown ends, then press Start short break when you are ready and step away for five minutes. Come back and start the next focus yourself. After four completed focus phases, the timer offers a fifteen-minute long break. Skipped phases do not count towards the four.
It is long enough to make progress on a piece of reading, a problem set or a draft, and short enough that a break is never far away. If an idea arrives mid-round, write it on a scrap of paper and return to the task. If you finish early, use the time to review rather than start something new.
Open a room to put a rainy city or a quiet library behind the countdown, and add music, rain, fireplace, ocean or noise at the volume you like. Go fullscreen, or switch to Minimal to see little more than the time. Turn on the gentle completion chime if you want a soft cue at the end of each round, and save the room, durations and sound mix as a session so the next set of rounds starts the same way.
Both start at 25 minutes of focus with the same breaks, and both let you switch between the Classic 25/5 and Deep work 50/10 presets. The Pomodoro page explains the method in more detail.
No. Every phase waits for you to press Start, so you decide when each round begins.
The timer counts completed focus phases towards the long break and shows which focus you are on, such as Focus 1 of 4.
Yes. Open Custom and set the short and long breaks to any whole minutes from 1 to 180. A running or paused phase keeps its length; the new settings apply to the next timer.