The best pomodoro timer...

…and I’ve tried several. Including an actual pasta timer.

I love that the app looks so clean and streamlined. Everything is in one place and you can hide whatever you’re not using (in my case, the “task view”), so you can focus (no pun) only on what’s useful to you. For me, this means the actual timer and the activity view.

I also really like how the app keeps such good track of your stats: you can see how well you’re doing, how well you did yesterday, last week, etc.
You can also see when each session started and ended, which is great if you’re doing long, 50-minute sessions, which you sometimes pause. There’s also a color-coded system (with red, yellow and green lights) that relies on the number of sessions you set for yourself for the day, and positively reinforces your efforts if you’re as scatterbrained as I am.

Another great little detail is the customization of the menu bar, wherein you may have a countdown clock represented by numbers and/or by a small circle (or you can just disable it if that’s not your thing). It’s a very unobtrusive way to see, at a glance, how much time you have left in the current pomodoro.

In sum, thank you for this!

joao2174 about Focus – Productivity Timer