A next-generation Pomodoro timer for Mac
The floating tomato times your focus sessions and breaks. Jot down a thought as you go and get a gentle nudge when you open something you’ve marked as distracting. After each session, see which apps and sites you used and for how long. Over time, see when you focus best.
Click the floating tomato to add a note.
Wednesday, 11 November · 14:25 – 14:55
30m focused
14:31Toggle state should persist per window
14:48Ask Ana about the export bug
Share of each minute spent on something distracting, averaged across sessions.
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Keep the first panel simple. Put shortcuts and export in their own sections.
Remember the last tab for each window.
Ask Ana about the export bug before the next build.
Start a focus session, then switch apps while the tomato keeps time.Interactive mockup · Sample sessions · The 20-second session counts only what happens on this webpage.
Always on your screen
The tomato stays above your apps, even between sessions. Give it a corner of its own and it’ll quietly keep you company, make the occasional face, and take a coffee break when you do.
The tomato slowly drains as the timer runs. You can see how much time is left without opening a window or reading a clock.
Open something you marked as distracting and it quietly asks. No alarms, and nothing is blocked.
When the timer ends, a break starts. The tomato has a coffee and fills back up while you rest.
Time left, pause and end, without opening a window.
Quick notes
Click the floating tomato during a focus session to open a small note field. Type a line and hit Return. Tomato saves the note with its time, and you’re back to work while the timer keeps running.
Later, a connected AI agent can gather the day’s notes from your completed sessions.
What did I jot down today?
Activity on your Mac
During a focus session, Tomato logs the app in front. With your permission, it also saves the domain of the active tab in the front browser window.
Window titles, full URLs, page contents, and background tabs stay out of the log. See what’s recorded.
Supported browsers: Safari, Chrome, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera.
A summary after every session, written for you. Nothing to fill in.
Wednesday, 11 November · 14:25 – 14:55
30m focused
14:31Toggle state should persist per window
14:48Ask Ana about the export bug
Each session is scored from 0 to 100 on five things: staying on task, depth, being present, staying steady and finishing what you planned. The question mark beside it shows how it was worked out.
Every app and site, laid along the session. Mark something as distracting later and past sessions are recounted.
Name the session before you start, add notes as you go, rename it afterwards. They stay with the session.
No account, no server, no sync, no analytics. Tomato keeps session history on this Mac and makes no network connections.
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Security
Tomato makes no network connections. You choose which browsers it can check and whether to give an AI agent access to your history.
macOS asks separately for each browser. Revoke access in System Settings under Privacy & Security → Automation, or turn off Record site domains from browsers in Tomato Settings.
Tomato keeps your sessions and notes in a local database without adding its own encryption. In Tomato Settings, use Show in Finder to locate it or Erase All Data to clear your recorded sessions.
If you connect Claude, it can read your activity and notes but can’t change them through Tomato. Claude handles the data it reads under its own privacy settings and terms.
When your focus fades, what pulls you away, which hours go best. Worked out on your Mac from numbers that are already there.
How long sessions lasted before the first distraction.
What you were in just before each distraction, and where you went.
Average focus score by the hour a session started.
Tomato includes a read-only connector for Claude. It runs on your Mac, only when Claude asks, and it can only read your session history.
Ask in plain words. Claude reads the same numbers you see in Tomato.
What was I mainly working on this week, and what pulled me away?
You spent 9h 40m in focus across 21 sessions, mostly in Xcode and on github.com. LinkedIn was your most frequent detour: 17 visits, 38 minutes. Your longest clean stretches all started before 11:00.
Optional, and off until you add it.
$ claude mcp add tomato -- "/Applications/Tomato.app/Contents/MacOS/Tomato" --mcpTomato holds app names, domains, counts and the notes you wrote. That is all Claude can read from it, and what it reads is then handled under Claude’s own terms.
No. There is no screen capture, and Tomato never listens to the keyboard. It counts clicks, scrolls and switches, and notes which app or site was in front. It saves session titles and notes when you choose to enter them.
In one file on your Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Stint/stint.sqlite. Settings has a button that shows it in Finder, and another that erases everything.
No. Tomato has no network code at all, so it works the same offline as on.
Safari, Chrome, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and Opera. macOS asks you once per browser before Tomato may read the domain of the tab in front. In any other browser, Tomato simply notes that the browser was in front.
Whatever you say. You decide which apps and sites count as distracting, and when you change your mind, past sessions are recounted to match.
No. Switch off Desktop character in the menu bar and Tomato carries on as a menu bar timer.
Tomato is one of a few Mac apps we make. Each one does a single job, and does it on your Mac.
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