Pummarola

Pummarola is a Pomodoro timer built natively for iPhone - simple, quiet, and fast.

Work in focused 25-minute sessions, take a short break, repeat. After four sessions, take a longer one. That's the whole method, and Pummarola runs it without ceremony, ads, or a dashboard full of charts you'll never look at.

WHY PUMMAROLA

- One tap to start. No setup, no account, no onboarding carousel.
- Built with SwiftUI for iOS — it feels like an Apple app because it is one.
- Runs in the background and keeps time accurately, even if you lock your phone.
- Clear, legible timer designed to be readable at a glance from across a desk.

FEATURES

- Classic Pomodoro cycle: focus sessions, short breaks, and a long break after four rounds
- Adjustable session and break lengths to fit how you actually work
- Notifications when a session or break ends, so you can put the phone down
- Haptic and sound cues you can turn off
- Light and dark appearance, following your system setting
- No account required — nothing to sign up for

BUILT FOR FOCUS, NOT FOR ENGAGEMENT

Most productivity apps want your attention. Pummarola wants you to close it and get to work. There's no streak to guilt you, no feed, no notifications trying to pull you back in. Start a timer, put the phone face down, do the thing.

Whether you're studying, writing, coding, or working through a task list you've been avoiding, the Pomodoro technique works because it makes starting cheap — you're only committing to 25 minutes.

Pummarola: "pummarola" is Neapolitan for a simple tomato sauce. Same idea as this app — a few good ingredients, nothing extra.