TomoBar

Pomodoro timer for macOS menu bar

Get TomoBar

Mac App Store

Github Releases

Homebrew

brew install --cask ArtemYurov/tomobar/tomobar

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.

TomoBar 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.

TomoBar is fully sandboxed with no entitlements (except for the Apple Events entitlement, used to run the Do Not Disturb toggle shortcut).

Requirements

Minimum macOS version requirement to Monterey 12

Integration with other tools

Event log

TomoBar logs state transitions in JSON format to ~/Library/Containers/org.yurov.tomobar/Data/Library/Caches/TomoBar.log. Use this data to analyze your productivity and enrich other data sources.

Controlling the timer

TomoBar can be controlled using tomobar:// URLs.

• use open tomobar://startStop to start or stop the timer from the command line
• use open tomobar://pauseResume to pause or resume
• use open tomobar://skip to skip
• use open tomobar://addMinute to add a minute
• use open tomobar://addFiveMinutes to add a 5 minutes

Older versions

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

Licenses

• Based of TomatoBar fork https://github.com/AuroraWright/TomatoBar
• Originally TomatoBar https://github.com/ivoronin/TomatoBar/
• Timer sounds are licensed from buddhabeats
• "macos-focus-mode.shortcut" is taken from the macos-focus-mode project under the MIT license.