SuperfocusTickTick's timer is a feature. Focus is your job.
When the timer is buried in settings, you never use it. Focus tools should lead, not follow.
The stall
- Timer hidden in task app.
- Never find it.
- Never use it.
The block
- Timer is the homepage.
- Tasks sync in.
- Focus first.
Suggested Superfocus preset: Pomodoro + Todoist sync
How to run a TickTick Pomodoro alternative session
- Name one outcome. “Study chapter 4” or “write the intro,” not “be productive.” Vague tasks are why people search how to focus and still open Slack.
- Pick Pomodoro + Todoist sync. If starting feels heavy, cut the block in half. A finished 15-minute sprint beats a abandoned 25-minute pomodoro.
- Start the Superfocus timer and optionally a cassette (lofi, rain, white noise) in the same tab. Do not open a second “study with me” video.
- When it rings, stand up. The break is part of the pomodoro technique, not optional chrome. Then start the next block or stop for the day.
How to choose (including Pomofocus)
Pomofocus is a well-known minimal pomodoro timer online. Keep it if all you want is 25/5 in a clean page. Choose Superfocus when you also want tasks, cassettes, Todoist, and a report of focus time — without paying for three other apps. Forest is a phone-lock metaphor. Focusmate is a human appointment. Flocus and similar apps mix timer plus sound; Superfocus is the same idea with a $1.99 plan and a browser-first timer.
| If you need | Start with |
|---|---|
| Only a tomato / 25-5 clock | Any simple pomodoro timer |
| Timer + tasks + sound | Superfocus |
| Someone watching you work | Focusmate, then Superfocus for solo blocks |
| Growing a tree on your phone | Forest, plus a desktop timer for deep work |
Mistakes that make ticktick's timer is a feature. focus is your job. feel useless
- Stacking three tools: a tomato timer, Spotify, and a task app. Context switching is the product.
- Skipping breaks until you crash. Cirillo’s pomodoro technique uses 5-minute pauses on purpose.
- Judging the day by hours in a chair instead of finished blocks. Superfocus analytics count completed sessions, not tab time.
- Forcing 25/5 when the work is a 90-minute deep-work problem — or forcing 90 minutes when you cannot start.
Why use Superfocus instead of a kitchen timer
A kitchen timer or a silent chrome pomodoro extension only answers “when does this end?” Superfocus also holds the task, ambient sound, and a record of what you actually finished. That is the gap between a tomato timer novelty and a study timer or focus timer you will reopen tomorrow.
Related searches we designed for: pomodoro timer online, pomodoro technique timer, study timer, and focus timer — not a new productivity religion. One browser tab. $1.99/month after a 7-day trial. There is no free plan.
What Superfocus costs
There is no free plan and no guest timer. Premium is $1.99/month after a 7-day trial. Subscribe, then run TickTick Pomodoro alternative at /app. If you only need a countdown, keep a kitchen timer or phone clock — do not pay $1.99/month for that.
Questions people actually ask
What is a TickTick Pomodoro alternative?
TickTick's timer is a feature. Focus is your job. is a timed focus block you run in the browser. Superfocus keeps the clock, one task, and optional sound in the same tab so you do not bounce to YouTube or another timer.
Do I need the classic 25/5 Pomodoro?
Only if it fits the work. Superfocus ships Pomodoro 25/5, Sprint, Flow, and Deep Work. Pick the shortest block you will actually start, then lengthen once the first session finishes.
How much does Superfocus cost?
Premium is $1.99/month after a 7-day trial. There is no guest timer and no free plan. Subscribe, then use the timer at /app.
Keep going
Run this in Superfocus
One plan. $1.99/month after a 7-day trial. No free plan. Timer lives at /app after you subscribe.