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

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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

Just want a timer right now?

Try the free online Pomodoro timer — runs in your browser, tracks focus sessions and breaks, no install and no signup required. When you're ready for a menu-bar timer that stays out of your way, come back for the native macOS app above.

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.