TomatoBar

Overview

Have you ever heard of Pomodoro? It’s a great technique to help you keep track of time and stay on task during your studies or work. Read more about it on Wikipedia.

TomatoBar is world's neatest Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar. All the essential features are here - configurable work and rest intervals, optional sounds, discreet actionable notifications, global hotkey.

TomatoBar is fully sandboxed with no entitlements.

Download the latest release here or install using Homebrew:

$ brew install --cask tomatobar

If the app doesn't start, install using the --no-quarantine flag:

$ brew install --cask --no-quarantine tomatobar

Integration with other tools

Event log

TomatoBar logs state transitions in JSON format to ~/Library/Containers/com.github.ivoronin.TomatoBar/Data/Library/Caches/TomatoBar.log. Use this data to analyze your productivity and enrich other data sources.

Starting and stopping the timer

TomatoBar can be controlled using tomatobar:// URLs. To start or stop the timer from the command line, use open tomatobar://startStop.

Older versions

Touch bar integration and older macOS versions (earlier than Big Sur) are supported by TomatoBar versions prior to 3.0

Licenses

Timer sounds are licensed from buddhabeats