Tomato
A calm Pomodoro focus timer for iPhone.
Support
Questions, bugs, or ideas? Email tomato@chaandme.com and you'll get a reply. Please include your iOS version and what you were doing when anything went wrong.
How Tomato works
These behaviors are intentional — Tomato follows the classic Pomodoro Technique closely. If something surprises you, it's probably by design:
What do the four tomatoes mean?
Each 🍅 is one finished 25-minute pomodoro in the current set. After the fourth you earn a longer break and the set resets. They track progress toward that long break — they're not a daily limit. Your real running total for the day lives in History.
Why can't I end a session early and take the break?
A pomodoro is all-or-nothing by design. It either rings after 25 minutes — then you get the break — or you Abandon it, which voids it: nothing counted, no break. The break is the reward for finishing. (Breaks are different — you can skip a break early.)
Why is there no pause button?
The 25 minutes are meant to be unbroken — protecting that block is the whole point. If something genuinely pulls you away, Abandon and start a fresh pomodoro rather than pausing.
Internal vs. external interruptions?
When a distraction hits, don't act on it — tap Internal (a thought of your own) or External (someone or something else) to log it, then keep working. Reviewing these shows what breaks your focus.
Will the timer make a sound?
Yes — the ring plays inside the app even in Silent Mode. For it to sound while Tomato is in the background, allow notifications and make sure a Focus / Do-Not-Disturb mode isn't muting it.
Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 2026
Tomato is built to keep your data yours. In plain terms:
- We don't collect anything. There are no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs in the app.
- No account, no tracking. Tomato never asks you to sign up and does not track you across apps or websites.
- Your data stays on your device. Your pomodoro records and tasks are stored locally on your iPhone.
- iCloud sync is private. If you're signed into iCloud, your data syncs through your own private iCloud (Apple CloudKit) database so it's available across your devices. It is stored in your Apple account, not on any server we control, and we cannot see it.
- Notifications are used only to ring the timer. They stay on your device.
Because no personal data is collected or shared, there is nothing to request, export, or delete from us — removing the app (or its iCloud data from your Apple ID settings) removes everything.
Questions about privacy? Email tomato@chaandme.com.