Know where your day went.
Tomato quietly records your workday on your Mac, so at 6pm you can ask it where the time went. Start a Pomodoro when you need one, and it taps your shoulder only when you've drifted. Your attention is yours — and so is the record of it.
Busy is not the same as
knowing where the day went.
Fourteen threads, three projects, a wall of output you skimmed and mostly forgot. Every switch costs a reload, and at 6pm the day is a blank you cannot account for. Tomato keeps the record, so you don't have to.
Read the manifestoAsk your day anything.
Tomato ships an MCP server on your Mac, so Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client can read your recorded day and answer plainly — even while recording is paused.
People are already building their own summaries, skills and HTML views on top of it.
Mostly the pricing page, with one long detour:
Want me to pick the MCP spike back up where you left it?
A Pomodoro that knows the difference.
Tell Tomato what you meant to do
Type the intention before each session. Tomato uses it as the lens for everything that follows — not a list of banned websites.
Reads context, not URLs
Screen capture stays entirely on your machine. Every few minutes, a single Anthropic API call summarizes your high-level activity and checks alignment with your intention. Reddit might be on-task — it depends.
Nudges, never blocks
No walls, no countdown to lockout, no public shame. When you drift, a friendly card appears — dismiss it, return, or end the session.
Trains your own focus
External blockers don't build attention; they outsource it. Tomato gently reflects your patterns back to you, so you re-learn focus as a skill.
What it looks like.
Designed to feel like part of macOS, not on top of it. A few real moments from a session.
Set your intention
Type what you're working on, pick a session length, and hit start.
Work on track
A quiet overlay with your timer and intention. Nothing is blocked.
Check your progress
Expand the HUD to see what you've been doing and how long you've been at it.
Get nudged when you drift
Tomato notices when your activity stops matching your intention — and gently says so.
It pays attention. Then it remembers — only for you.
Your recorded day is stored on your Mac, and nothing about it is sent to Tomato.
You drifted to Twitter. Want to refocus on writing documentation?
An iPhone companion is an experimental spike, not shipped yet. Want to test it? Email us.
Ask your day what happened.
Tomato records your workday on your Mac and answers when you ask. A Pomodoro is there when you need one. Free during the beta. No account.
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