Pomodoro timer for Windows
Focus Valley 1.1.6 for Windows 10 and 11. A Pomodoro timer that counts the minutes you actually worked, not the minutes the clock was running.
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The usual choice. Double-click and follow the installer.
Same app, NSIS installer. Use it if the .msi is blocked by policy on your machine.
System requirements
- Operating systemWindows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.
- RuntimeMicrosoft Edge WebView2. It is already on Windows 11 and on most Windows 10 machines; if it is missing, the installer downloads it during setup.
- Disk spaceAbout 35 MB to download, a little more once installed.
- AccountA Focus Valley account, and a Pro or Lifetime plan (or a redeem code) to unlock the app.
- InternetOnly for signing in and for the world leaderboard. The timer itself runs offline.
What the app does here
On Windows the app asks the operating system one number: how many seconds since your last keypress or mouse movement. Past sixty seconds it decides you have stopped working and pauses the timer on its own, so the session records the time you were really there. It never reads what you type or which programs you open, just that one number.
When a session ends, the break alert covers your entire screen, above every other window, instead of becoming one more notification you dismiss without reading. The idle alert works the same way. Both can be switched off in Preferences.
The rest is shaped like the web timer: the four presets (15/3, 25/5, 50/10, 90/20), one spark per minute worked, day streaks, and a weekly leaderboard that resets on Monday. Your desktop sparks and streak follow your account from machine to machine, and it is the same board the web timer writes to: sign in on both and your sparks add up on one row instead of splitting between two scores.
Before you install
Windows may warn about an unknown publisher, because the build is not code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. If you would rather not, the web timer needs no installation at all.
The .msi is the normal choice. The .exe setup contains the same app and exists for machines where policy blocks MSI packages.
You do not have to install anything
The Focus Valley web timer is free, needs no account and runs in any browser: the same Pomodoro presets, the same sparks, the same streaks, and the same weekly world leaderboard. Sign in on either one and the sparks land on the same row. Open the free timer. What it cannot do, because no browser tab can, is notice that you walked away from the computer. That is the one thing the desktop app is for, and how it works goes through the difference feature by feature.
If the timer is the easy part and sitting down is the hard one, the guides are about that: what the Pomodoro technique actually asks of you, and why concentrating at a computer is difficult in the first place.
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