Plan today's tasks, press play, and work in calm, glowing focus sessions. Slack goes quiet, distractions step aside, and every session lands next to your meetings.
An example day. The timer is live: drag the ring, or hover a task and press play.
Every switch between tasks costs you a little time to reload what you were doing. Add a few more things to juggle and those little costs swallow most of your day.
Rule of thumb from Gerald Weinberg, Quality Software Management (1992). Percent of your working time.
to fully get back into a task after an interruption. One Slack ping can cost you most of a pomodoro.
Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvineof productive time can disappear into the small mental resets of switching back and forth between tasks.
David Meyer, University of Michigan, via the American Psychological AssociationGary Keller and Jay Papasan's book makes a simple case: extraordinary results come from narrowing your focus to the one task that matters most, and protecting time for it every day. We built the app around that idea.
A domino can topple one about one and a half times its size. Start with a small, focused session and bigger things start to fall.
Each morning, pick the task that would make everything else easier or unnecessary. Add it to Today, hover it and press play.
Every session becomes a block on your day timeline, right beside your meetings, and the goal dots fill up as the blocks add up.
Slack switches to Focus with Do Not Disturb, and distracting apps stay hidden until the ring runs out.
The ONE Thing is a book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Holo: Pomodoro Focus Timer is not affiliated with the book or its authors.
One window, one ring, one task at a time. The rest happens on its own while you work.
Starting a session sets your Slack status to Focus with the end time and turns on Do Not Disturb. When you stop, your old status comes back.
Restores "In the office" when you're done
Pick the apps that pull you away. While a session runs they hide the moment they come to the front.
Every session lands on a timeline beside your calendar meetings, with a week of focus bars on top. Join a video call straight from its block.
The countdown sits next to the clock. Pause, skip or start a break without opening a window.
Four themes, including a light one, plus your own color-coded categories and a daily goal you can watch light up.
There's no cloud behind Holo: Pomodoro Focus Timer. Your sessions, tasks and calendar never leave your computer, and there are no servers of ours that could store them.
Your session history, tasks, categories and settings are stored as files and preferences on your own computer.
Meetings come from the Calendar app on your Mac and are never uploaded anywhere.
Nothing about how or when you work is reported back to us or anyone else.
The Slack status feature talks straight from your Mac to Slack, and its access token is kept in the macOS Keychain.
No tiers, no add-ons. Both plans get the whole app, for less than you spend on one coffee.
Cancel any time during the 7-day trial and you pay nothing. Prices in US dollars. Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later.
7 days free, then $1.50 a month, billed yearly