A Pomodoro smart enough
to tell the difference.
Between debugging on Reddit and doom-scrolling Reddit. Between a YouTube tutorial and a YouTube binge. Tomato reads your active window against the intention you typed — and only nudges when you've really drifted. Never blocks. Never shames. An accountability partner that trains your own focus.
App blockers can't tell
research from procrastination.
You're debugging your code on Reddit. You're watching a YouTube tutorial. A dumb URL blocker doesn't care — it shames you for both. That's not focus. That's friction. Tomato understands what you actually set out to do, and only steps in when you've truly drifted.
Smart enough to tell 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.
Tomato keeps a private journal of your focus sessions, built from textual metadata like window titles and tabs — never from screen pixels. Soon you'll be able to ask it "what did I work on yesterday?" or pull a weekly recap, all from your own machine.
You drifted to Twitter. Want to refocus on writing documentation?
Stop fighting your apps.
Tomato is a Pomodoro timer that actually understands what you set out to do — and trusts you to steer. Free during the beta. Local-only. No account.
Just an email for updates, macOS 13+, 28MB