Timse
Your pomodoro timers, in the menu bar.
Out August 177 days free. Then €3, once.
macOS 14.0 or later
A look at what it does
Drag around the ring to set how long you work. It clicks into place at 25 minutes.
The things you want to finish, written down inside the timer itself.
When the session ends the break can cover the screen, with a code to get back in early.
Smart Widget
Every session you've run
One square per day, green for a light one and red for the days you really put the hours in. Beside it, what you've logged today; underneath, the week so far.
The same widget, mid session
The moment a session starts, the same plate swaps to your goals and the time remaining. Smart is the one that does this, and you add it yourself: there are also Sessions and Goals, which each keep a single face.
The continuous cycle
Turn it on and the break rolls straight back into work, over and over, until you stop it. Turn it off and Timse resets when the break ends, then waits. Either way you can pause the count or skip the phase you're in.
How a phase ends
Two different chimes, one for the end of work and one for the end of the break, so you know what happened without looking. On screen you get either a four second breath that fades on its own, or the veil that covers everything: one or the other, never both.
It never loses count
Timse doesn't count seconds, it notes the moment your session ends. Shut the Mac halfway through a pomodoro and open it later: what you see on waking is the real time left, not the time that was frozen.
Native and light
Written in Swift for macOS. No Electron and no web views: it sits in the menu bar, starts at login if you ask it to, and a button next to play opens Spotify when you want music before you begin.
One-time payment, every future update included.
- 7 days free, no card needed
- macOS 14.0 Sonoma or later
- Apple Silicon
- 14-day money-back guarantee
- Updates install inside the app, free
Timse came out of a frustration. Every pomodoro app I tried asked me three questions before it would let me work: how long to focus, how long to rest, how many times to repeat. I wanted one that asked a single one.
Everything else follows from that. The break isn't a setting because the right ratio is already known. The dial is also the control because one more slider under the timer was one more thing to look at. And the history isn't in the panel but in a widget, because the right home for something you check once a day isn't inside the control you open twenty times.
Read the announcement Timse: pomodoro timers in the Mac menu bar How do I set how long I work?
Drag around the edge of the dial. If you need an exact value, click the number in the middle and type it: anywhere from 1 to 120 minutes.
Can I set the length of the break?
No, and that's deliberate. The break is always a fifth of the work, which is the pomodoro ratio. Taking it out of your daily decisions is half the point of the app.
What does the Smart widget do?
It changes on its own, based on what you're doing. While a session is running it shows your goals and the time left; when the timer is idle it goes back to your session history.
Can the break lock shut me out of my Mac?
No. The code to leave early is written on the screen, and the veil drops by itself when the break ends. It's friction, not a lock.
Which Macs does it run on?
Any Apple Silicon Mac, on macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
What happens after the 7 days?
You use all of it for 7 days, with no card and no account. After that a licence key unlocks it for good.
How do I unlock it?
Download the app, buy a licence key and paste it in once. It arrives by email within seconds.
How many Macs can I use it on?
All of them. One purchase covers every Mac you own, with no activation limit.
Are updates included?
Yes. You pay once and keep every future version, installed from inside the app.
Is it safe to install?
Yes. Timse is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens without security warnings.
Where does my data go?
It stays on your Mac. Sessions and goals live in a local container shared between the app and its widgets, and nothing passes through a server.
Still stuck? Write to contact@cupertina.com.