What is the Pomodoro Technique?

It is a way of working in fixed intervals: you pick one task, work on it for twenty-five minutes without switching, then take a five minute break. Every fourth round the break is longer, usually fifteen to thirty minutes. Francesco Cirillo worked it out as a student in the late 1980s using a kitchen timer shaped like a tomato, which is where the name comes from. The value is less about the exact numbers and more about the fact that something outside your head is deciding when to stop.

Do I need an account to use the timer?

No. Open the Pomodoro timer and press start. Settings, sounds, fullscreen, the task list and every one of the calculators work with no signup at all. An account is what saves your history across devices so the hours add up to something you can look back at.

Can I change the 25 and 5 minute lengths?

Yes, on any of the timers. Open settings and set the focus minutes, the short break, the long break and how many rounds run before the long one. If you already know the ratio you want, there is probably a page set up for it, such as the 52/17 timer for deep work or the 50/10 setup on the coding timer.

Which of the ten timers should I use?

Start with the main Pomodoro timer, which is the classic twenty-five and five with everything switched on. Move to a specific one when you know what is not working: longer blocks if twenty-five minutes keeps cutting you off mid-thought, the gentler ADHD timer if starting is the hard part, the lofi or aesthetic timers if you are going to have it on screen all evening.

Are the calculators actually free?

Yes, all thirteen of them, with no signup, no watermark, no export cap and nothing reserved for a paid tier. That includes the invoice generator and its PDF download. They are free because they cost us almost nothing to run: they calculate in your browser rather than on a server.

Does anything I type into the tools leave my browser?

No. The calculators and the invoice generator do their work locally and keep what you enter in your own browser storage, so client names, rates and invoice amounts are never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data removes them. Tasks, projects and session history are different: those are saved to your account so they are there on your other devices.

What is the difference between the free plan and Pro?

Free covers doing the work: unlimited focus sessions, unlimited tasks and projects, every timer, every calculator, plants and streaks, and reporting over the last thirty days. Pro is for turning that tracked time into money, with billable value and effective hourly rate per project, full history beyond thirty days, and timesheet and invoice export as CSV or PDF.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. It runs in the browser on any device, so there is nothing to install from an app store and no separate mobile version to keep in sync. The timer keeps counting while the tab is in the background and tells you when the session ends.

PomoTodo: Free Pomodoro Timer, Task Manager and Time Tools

The problem

Busy all day, nothing to show for it

Time does not disappear because you are lazy. It disappears because nothing is counting it, and the list you are working from was never sorted.

The day just goes

You sat down at nine. It is somehow four. You could account for maybe two of those hours, and the rest went somewhere between a browser tab and a message thread.

The list only grows

Everything on it looks urgent, so nothing gets ranked. The one task that would actually move something forward is still sitting near the bottom where you left it on Monday.

You cannot show the work

A client asks what the retainer covered this month, or you ask yourself where the week went, and the only honest answer is a rough guess written after the fact.

The product

One tab that runs the work, start to invoice

A timer that counts, a list that sorts, and projects that add the hours up on their own. No stack of six subscriptions pretending to talk to each other.

A timer built for real work

Ten presets from the classic 25 and 5 to a 52 and 17 deep work block. Change the lengths, go fullscreen, pick an alarm that does not make you jump.

18:42Focus

Classic25 / 5
Deep work52 / 17
Coding50 / 10
Gentler15 / 5

Your list, ranked

Capture in one line, set a priority, attach the timer to whatever you are on right now.

Projects that add up

Sections, owners and due dates, or a board if you prefer columns. Every session you run is filed against the project it belongs to.

Proof, not a guess

Hours per day, per project and per client, with streaks that make a run of good weeks visible. When someone asks where the month went, open this.

Something to show for it

Finish a session, grow a plant. Sixteen of them, some rare enough to take real weeks of focus.

Sound and scenery

Lofi, rain and brown noise on a loop, with backgrounds you can actually stand looking at for eight hours.

How it works

Three steps, then it runs itself

There is no setup phase, no workspace to configure and no onboarding checklist. You are one click from a running timer.

01
Pick the one thing
Put it at the top of the list and mark it active. The timer attaches itself to that task, so at minute nine you are not deciding all over again what you should be doing.
02
Start it and leave it
Press start, go fullscreen if the other tabs are the problem, and work until the bell. The break starts on its own, and so does the next round.
03
The hours file themselves
Each finished session lands on the project it belonged to. By Friday the total is already written, and the invoice comes straight off the back of it.

Try it, no account needed

Plan the work

Project management board to track your tasks and time efficiently

A project management tool is what helps you keep track of your tasks and time. Pomotodo's project management tool helps you seemlessly track your projects and tasks, and even share with the peers you collaborate with.

Projects

Plan it as a list, flip it into a board

A project opens as plain sections stacked down the page, which is closer to how most people actually hold work in their head. When you want columns instead, the same project becomes a board without you moving anything. There is a table view for the weeks you are reviewing rather than doing.

Owner, due date and priority all on one line
Group the same project by section, owner, priority or date
Bulk actions move fifteen tasks as fast as one
Delete a section and its tasks move rather than vanish

See project management

Tasks

One list, and it tells you what is next

Type a task in a single line before the thought escapes, then give it only as much structure as it earns. A due date if it has one, a priority when it competes, subtasks when one job turns out to be five. The list does the sorting so you are not re-reading it every morning.

Capture in one line, keyboard the whole way through
Subtasks for when one task is really five
Tags that pick their own colour
The Pomodoro timer attaches to whatever is active

See task management

Pomodoro timers

Ten timers, one for how you actually work

Same engine underneath, tuned for a different job. Fifty-two on and seventeen off if you write for a living, fifteen minute blocks if the standard twenty-five is too long a runway.

The main Pomodoro Timer

Full settings, task list, ambient sound and fullscreen. If you are not sure which one you want, this is the one you want.

Open the timer

Browse all Pomodoro timers and compare them side by side.

Free tools

Thirteen calculators, free and open in one click

No account, no export limit and nothing held back for a paid tier. They run entirely in your browser, which also means whatever you type into them never leaves your machine.

Time and hours

Work out a span, a total or a timesheet without opening a spreadsheet.

Money and billing

Turn hours into what they are worth, then into something you can send.

Eisenhower Matrix

Sort tasks by urgent and important. Do, schedule, delegate, delete. Fill it in on screen or print the blank grid and do it with a pen.

Open the matrix

Who it is for

Four kinds of stuck, four places to start

The technique is the same everywhere. What changes is the ratio, the interface and how hard the timer pushes. Pick the one written for your problem.

Students

Revision goes badly when it is one four hour block you keep flinching away from. Twenty-five minutes with a countdown on screen is a much smaller thing to agree to.

Timer for studying

Developers

Twenty-five minutes is short if you have just loaded the whole call stack into your head. Fifty on and ten off protects the part that took twenty minutes to build.

Timer for coding

Freelancers

Tracked hours are the invoice. Run sessions against a project, read the total at the end of the month, and send the PDF without reconstructing the work from memory.

Invoice generator

Anyone who wants to start

Shorter blocks, visible progress and an alarm that does not startle you. The point is lowering the cost of beginning, not squeezing more out of the hour.

Gentler timer

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Pomodoro presets: 10Pomodoro presets
plants to unlock: 16plants to unlock
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Pricing

Free is the whole product. Pro is the paperwork.

Timing your work, sorting your list and every calculator on the site cost nothing and always will. Pro exists for the part where tracked hours have to turn into a report or an invoice someone else reads.

Free

For anyone who just wants to get the day done.

$0forever

Unlimited focus sessions and tasks
Unlimited projects and boards
All 10 Pomodoro timers, all 23 free tools
Plants, streaks and daily stats
Reporting over the last 30 days

Create a free account

No card. The timer works before you even make one.

Pro

Save 31% yearly

For billing the work, not just doing it.

$12/month

or $99 a year, which works out at $8.25 a month.

Everything in Free, with no limits removed later
Billable value & effective hourly rateSee what the time on each project is worth, and on fixed-fee work, what it actually paid you per hour.
Full project historyReport over 90 days, 12 months or all time. Free accounts see the last 30.
Timesheets & invoice exportTurn tracked hours into billable line items, mark periods invoiced, and export CSV or PDF for a client or an accountant.

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Cancel from your account settings whenever you like.

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Questions

The things people ask before they start

If yours is not here, the answer is probably on the page for the tool you were looking at.

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