VisualPomodoro

A native macOS menu-bar Pomodoro timer with a live visual progress bar. No dock icon, no clutter — just a slim pill that fills in as you focus.

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Buy VisualPomodoro — $9 One-time purchase · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

What you get

Live progress pill in the menu bar Fills in real time next to the remaining MM:SS
Classic Pomodoro cycle Focus → short break, long break every 4th round
Wall-clock timing A sleeping Mac never loses time
Global hotkey ⌃⌥P starts or pauses from anywhere
Command-line control visual-pomodoro start --minutes 45
Dark & light mode aware Matches your system appearance automatically

CLI, for the terminal-minded

visual-pomodoro start --minutes 25 --label "Deep work"
visual-pomodoro status --json
visual-pomodoro skip

Installing

Download the .dmg after purchase, drag VisualPomodoro.app into Applications, and launch it.

First launch: this build isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS will say it's from an unidentified developer. Right-click the app → Open → Open once, and it'll launch normally every time after that.