Give focused work and regular breaks a place in your day. Pomodoro Watch runs work, short-break, and long-break timers on an Android phone or independently on a Wear OS watch, with a routine you can adjust to the task.

Start from the main screen, a phone widget, or the watch Tile, then review your focus history on your phone. Session labels add context to records, while the statistics dashboard helps you see when and how consistently you make time to focus.

Build a routine that fits

• Customize work, short breaks, long breaks, and the number of sessions per cycle.
• Run phone and watch timers independently; share completed records between paired devices.
• Control the phone timer from home-screen widgets and the watch timer from a Wear OS Tile.
• Create work labels on your phone and select a label separately on each device.
• Review daily focus, weekly comparisons, streaks, time-of-day patterns, and a monthly heatmap.
• Choose sound, vibration, automatic restart, optional quotes, and work-only Do Not Disturb.

A focus cycle you can customize

Begin with the familiar 25-minute work session, 5-minute break, and a longer break after four sessions, or change the cycle to suit your day. Work can last 1–60 minutes, short breaks 1–30 minutes, long breaks 5–60 minutes, with 1–8 work sessions per cycle.

Leave automatic restart off to decide when to begin the next stage, or turn it on to continue through the routine automatically. Optional quotes appear when you start a timer, adding a short prompt before returning to your task.

A phone timer ready on the main screen

Use Pomodoro Watch on your Android phone even without a watch. The main screen keeps a circular timer in the center, so you can start a work session directly and see its stage and progress when you return.

The interface follows your system’s light or dark theme. Navigation also adapts to tablets, foldables, rotation, and split-screen use, making it practical to keep a timer alongside study materials or another work app.

An independent timer on your wrist

The Wear OS app runs its own timer without needing the phone to operate it. Add the Tile to view the current timer type and session, then start, pause, stop, or move to the next timer using its controls.

Tap outside the Tile buttons to open the watch app for a closer look. A compatible watch face complication shows today’s completed work-session count and opens the app when tapped, giving you a quick reminder of your progress.

Phone controls on your home screen

Add a Pomodoro Watch home-screen widget to see the phone timer’s stage and remaining time without returning to the full app. The compact widget offers start and pause controls, and larger layouts provide more space for the timer.

Use the widget to begin a work block between other phone tasks or pause when your plans change. Starting the next session from the widget also clears the previous completion alert and its repeating sound or vibration.

Give each work session a label

Create up to 20 labels in mobile settings, each 1–30 characters long, for subjects, clients, projects, or daily tasks. Select one label, or no label, before starting work; that choice stays attached to the session and appears on its record card.

A running or paused work session keeps its original label. During a break, you can choose the label for your next work session. The label list is sent to the watch, where tapping the label cycles through choices; phone and watch can keep different selections.

Quieter work, with breaks kept separate

Enable optional Do Not Disturb for work timers to reduce interruptions during a focus block. Android must grant notification-policy access before the app can apply this setting; the app’s settings guide you to that system permission.

The option applies during work and releases Do Not Disturb for breaks. Choose the app’s sound and vibration settings separately for completion alerts, remembering that system silent modes and notification settings can affect how an alert reaches you.

See your focus patterns over time

The statistics dashboard brings together today’s focus time and completed Pomodoros, your best day, and a comparison of this week with last week. Current and longest streaks show how regularly you return to the routine.

Time-of-day patterns help you review when you tend to focus, and the monthly heatmap shows focus time across individual dates. Record cards retain session labels for context; you can remove a date’s records or clear the history when needed.

Shared records, independent timers

Completed timer records from the paired phone and watch are brought together for review. Use the watch for a block away from your desk and the phone for another task, then open the phone app with the devices connected to receive the latest history.

This record sharing does not mirror a running timer between devices: each device starts and controls its own session. If both devices have records of the same timer type within five minutes, merging gives the phone record priority to reduce duplicates.

Completion alerts and a clear next step

Choose sound, vibration, or both when a timer ends. Phone completion alerts can repeat sound and vibration for up to 30 seconds; stopping the alert or beginning the next session clears them. Work, break, and long-break completion screens use distinct colors.

On Android 14 and later, full-screen notification access allows a completion screen on the locked phone. Without that access, a heads-up notification provides the next-step controls. Keep notification and exact-alarm permissions available for the alerts you want.

Keep your timer running beyond the app screen

Timers use actual elapsed time so changing the phone clock or time zone does not change the duration of your work block. Released recovery improvements help restore running timers after app restarts or reboots, including when the watch screen is off or the app is in the background.

A future timer can be restored after reboot; one that already elapsed while the phone was off is cleared instead of sounding a delayed alarm. Force-stopping an app, powering off a device, or restricting notifications and alarms can still prevent delivery, so review those settings if an alert is missing.

Make room for focus in your day

• Study several subjects in separate labelled work blocks and review the day’s records afterward.
• Use a longer work period for writing or coding, with short breaks and a planned long break after a cycle.
• Start a watch-only timer while your phone is away, then bring completed records into your phone history.
• Place a widget on your home screen to begin and pause work without navigating through the app.
• Review weekly comparisons and the monthly heatmap to understand the consistency of your routine.
• Choose work-only Do Not Disturb for a quieter work block and let the app release it for breaks.

Start your first focus block

1. Install the Android app; install the Wear OS app separately on your paired watch if you want wrist timers.
2. Set work and break lengths, sessions per cycle, and whether the next stage should start automatically.
3. Choose completion sound and vibration, and review notification, exact-alarm, and optional full-screen access.
4. Create labels in mobile settings and select one before starting a work session on your chosen device.
5. Add a phone widget, watch Tile, or compatible complication for quicker access.
6. Connect the devices and open the phone app to review shared records and focus statistics.

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