Drag the ring to a length you can face today and press Start Focus. If even that's too much, there's an open focus with no countdown at all. It runs right here in your browser with nothing to sign up for, and it was built by a developer with ADHD for the days when starting is the hard part.
In the app, 10, 15 and 25 are free; any length is Pro.
Your one thing. That counts.
Breathe in
Five steps, and only the third one is required.
Open focus is the Flowtime idea: the clock counts up and you stop when you're done.
Some days are a clean 25 minutes. Some days the only honest answer is "I'll start and see". An ADHD focus timer has to work on both, so the first three ways in work right here, and in the FocusDrop app all four start from the same screen.
Ten minutes counts. A short session you start beats a long one you don't, so the ring here goes from 5 to 60 minutes. Past twelve o'clock it stops at 60 rather than wrapping round to 5, the kind of thing you only notice when it's wrong. In the app, 10, 15 and 25 minutes are free and any other length is Pro. FocusDrop 1.8, coming soon, sets them with this same ring. The app sets them with this same ring.
Nothing counts down. The clock counts up instead, so starting costs you no decision about how long you'll last. In the FocusDrop app it still earns the session, the drop and the streak day, and it's free. It's the one for bad days.
Four rounds with breaks between them, cycled for you. Here that's 25 minutes a round, a 5-minute break after each of the first three and 15 minutes after the fourth. In the FocusDrop app the rounds use whichever length you pick, the short break follows it (3, 5 or 8 minutes after 10, 15 or 25), and you can add or take off thirty seconds while a break runs.
Co-Focus keeps you company while you work: body doubling without a video call, and without another person. It's Pro and iPhone only. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence its coaching is written on the device, so nothing you type is sent to an AI service or to the developer. Coming in 1.8: Drop sits beside you with his own checklist and ticks it off as you finish each step. Drop sits beside you with his own checklist and ticks it off as you finish each step. Why body doubling works
A browser-tab timer disappears the moment you switch tabs, which, if you're reading this, you probably do. In the FocusDrop app the countdown lives outside the app it was started in.
For a timed session, a Live Activity carries the task and the time left, so a glance at a dark phone tells you where you are. Widgets put your next task one tap from Focus.
For a timed session, your Apple Watch shows the same countdown. You can start a Sprint, Flow or Deep from your wrist, pause it or end it, and the Watch app is free with your paired iPhone. Coming in 1.8: breaks on the wrist, and the three-breath ritual with a tap each half-breath. Breaks show there too, and the three-breath ritual taps your wrist each half-breath. FocusDrop for Apple Watch
FocusDrop for Mac will put a live countdown at the top of the screen (beside the camera, on a MacBook with a notch) and in the menu bar, in every app, without opening anything.A live countdown at the top of the screen (beside the camera, on a MacBook with a notch) and in the menu bar, in every app, without opening anything. FocusDrop for Mac
Coming in FocusDrop 1.8: turn your iPhone sideways and the Focus tab becomes a desk clock with six faces. Classic and Disc are free; Numerals, Flip, Big and Drop come with Pro. What's coming in 1.8On your desk: turn your iPhone sideways and the Focus tab becomes a desk clock with six faces. Classic and Disc are free; Numerals, Flip, Big and Drop come with Pro. What's new in 1.8
When this timer stops, you get the minutes you did, a soft chime and three breaths if you want them. In the FocusDrop app, Session complete shows the drop you earned, and when you mark the task done, the app goes one step further: three guided breaths, then one suggestion for what's next.
You can finish early without it feeling like failure, here and in the app: tap the check, the button becomes "Finish · 12 min", and a second tap keeps exactly that. Twelve minutes you did beats twenty-five you abandoned.
FocusDrop's answer comes from lived experience with ADHD, not medical advice: the best focus length is the one you'll actually start. A twelve-minute session you start beats a perfect forty-five you never do. That's why the FocusDrop app's free lengths are 10, 15 and 25 minutes, this timer's ring goes down to 5, and open focus skips the number altogether.
FocusDrop's take, from lived experience: Pomodoro helps a lot of people because it makes the work finite and puts the breaks on a schedule. It can also backfire when a fixed 25 minutes starts to feel like a test you're failing. That's why FocusDrop's Pomodoro timer for ADHD sits next to other lengths and an open focus with no countdown at all, here and in the app.
With FocusDrop's focus timer you don't have to decide up front, because Pomodoro and open focus are one tap apart. Pomodoro gives the work a fixed shape, four 25-minute rounds with breaks, which helps when you need an end in sight. Open focus is the Flowtime idea: the clock counts up and you stop when you're done, which helps when a countdown feels like pressure. Try each on a real task and keep the one you start more often.
FocusDrop's focus timer uses the classic Pomodoro rhythm: 25 minutes of focus, a 5-minute break, and a longer 15-minute break after the fourth round. The FocusDrop app ties the break to the length you picked: 3 minutes after 10, 5 after 15, 8 after 25, and 15 minutes after your fourth session. If 25 minutes feels too long to start, a shorter round you begin beats a longer one you don't.
Yes. Pick Pomodoro and the FocusDrop focus timer runs four 25-minute rounds, with a 5-minute break after each of the first three and a 15-minute break after the fourth, chiming at every change. In the FocusDrop app, Pomodoro is four rounds of whichever length you pick (10, 15 or 25 minutes free), with a short break between rounds and a 15-minute break after the fourth.
Yes: FocusDrop's open focus. Nothing counts down; the clock counts up, so starting costs no decision about how long you'll last, and you stop when you're done. It's free on this page and in the FocusDrop app, where it still earns the session, the drop and the streak day.
A focus timer, like the free FocusDrop focus timer on this page, is a countdown you start for one task, so the length of the work is decided before you begin and the clock does the remembering. This one is a single ring: drag it to the length you can face today, and start.
Yes. The FocusDrop focus timer keeps time from the clock rather than counting ticks, so switching tabs doesn't slow it down, and the tab title shows the time left. It remembers only your mode, length and sound, in your own browser; what you type isn't saved. A tab is still easy to lose, which is why the FocusDrop app puts timed sessions on your Lock Screen and your Apple Watch.
No. There's no web version of the FocusDrop app. The free focus timer on this page runs in any browser, without tasks, an account or sync. The app itself, with the task deck and iCloud sync, is on the App Store.
The FocusDrop app is free on iPhone and Apple Watch, with 5 focus sessions a day and 7 tasks in your deck. A Mac app is coming soon.The FocusDrop app is free on iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac, with 5 focus sessions a day and 7 tasks in your deck.
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