AlltraFocus
You sit down to work, and the phone buzzes, the inbox fills, and the one task you meant to start slips another hour. AlltraFocus ends that. It is a calm focus timer that turns the task you’ve been avoiding into short, focused sessions with rests built in, so it is easier to begin and easier to keep going.
No account · No ads · Nothing leaves your device · Works in your browser and on Android
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Starting a task is often harder than doing it, so AlltraFocus asks for only 25 minutes of focused work followed by a rest. Here is how it helps six kinds of people.
The chapter you keep reopening
You’ve opened your textbook three times tonight and read the same paragraph twice and you’re getting frustrated. With AlltraFocus, sit down, take a breath, and settle yourself. Start a 25-minute session and read until the chime sounds, then take a break. Before you know it, after four sessions you’ll have studied for 100 minutes and your frustration is gone.
The blank page
The page is empty, the coffee is ready, and you’re tidying your desktop instead of writing while the dread grows. With AlltraFocus, sit down and let go of the whole chapter. Start a 25-minute session and write until the chime sounds, badly if you need to, then take a break. Soon the first page is written and the blank screen no longer worries you.
The afternoon that disappeared
You have a tricky bug or a spreadsheet that needs real thought, your phone keeps lighting up, and you can’t find a clear hour to think. With AlltraFocus, close the extra tabs and start a 25-minute focus session. On Android, Focus Quiet Mode silences your phone for the session and restores it exactly as it was when the session ends, while your alarms and the contacts you’ve allowed still get through. By the time the chime sounds, you’ve had a full stretch of uninterrupted thinking and the problem looks smaller.
Days with no edges
At home, work starts whenever and never really ends, the sofa is close by, and you’re never sure whether you’ve done enough. With AlltraFocus, give the day a rhythm: start a 25-minute session, work until the chime sounds, then take a proper break. By the end of the day, you’ve worked in clear blocks, and when the timer says rest, you can rest without the guilt.
The one thing on your list
You know exactly which task you’re avoiding, whether it’s the email, the form or the phone call, and it has been on your list for days, looking bigger every time you put it off. With AlltraFocus, take a breath and agree to just 25 minutes. Start a session, work on that one task until the chime sounds, then take a break. Twenty-five minutes later, you’ve made real progress on the task you were dreading.
You just want a timer
You’ve tried timer apps with streaks, badges, reminders and upgrade pop-ups, and ended up managing the app instead of doing your work, which is its own kind of stress. With AlltraFocus, open the timer and start a 25-minute session. There is one big countdown and one clear button, and nothing else asks for your attention. At the end of the session, you’ve spent the whole time on your work, not on the app.
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Open AlltraFocus in your web browser or install it on your Android phone. There is no account to create and nothing to set up, so your first session is one tap away.
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Press ‘Start Focus’ and a 25-minute session begins right away. The countdown is the largest thing on the screen and nothing else competes for your attention, so you can turn straight to your work.
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A calm chime tells you the session is over, and your break starts on its own. After four sessions you get a longer break, and then the next session begins by itself, so you never have to restart anything.
The timer works exactly the same whether you pay or not, and the free version has no time limit and no nagging. The optional unlock is a one-time thank-you that adds extras.
| Feature | Free | Unlocked ($4.99 USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Your own focus, short-break and long-break lengths | ✓ | ✓ |
| Breaks and the next session start by themselves | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chime and notifications | ✓ | ✓ |
| Light and dark themes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Today’s session count | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seven-day history | — | ✓ |
| Five custom chimes | — | ✓ |
| Five extra colour palettes | — | ✓ |
| Calm background scenes, or your own photo | — | ✓ |
| Focus Quiet Mode: silences your Android phone during a session | One free session | Every session ✓ |
| Time limit | None | None |
$4.99 USD
Optional one-time unlock — everything else is free
Try the free timer first. On Android, Focus Quiet Mode is also free for one session, so you can feel the difference before you decide whether the unlock is worth it.
One-time purchase · No subscription · Android 8.0 or newer
The web version is a free way to try AlltraFocus, or to use it at your computer, but a web page can only alert you while its tab stays open. The Android app can do more, because a phone app can send notifications with the screen off and switch on your phone’s Do Not Disturb setting.
| Android app | Web version | |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts with the screen off or the app closed | Yes: chime, vibration and a notification | Only while the tab is open |
| Live countdown in a notification | Yes | The tab title shows the time |
| Silence your phone while you focus | Yes (Focus Quiet Mode) | No |
| Works with no internet | Always | Once it has loaded |
Want the full details? Read the AlltraFocus User Guide.
It takes one tap, with no account to create and nothing to pay.
Pomodoro Technique® is a registered trademark of Francesco Cirillo. AlltraFocus is not affiliated with or endorsed by him.
