Timerbird · Pomodoro Bird — a focus timer with a pet that remembers you. Nothing to install, no signup. Long blocks instead? Use it as a study timer.
A free pomodoro timer with a small bird that works next to you. The countdown does the ordinary job — 25 minutes of focus, 5 of rest, 50 when you're in it. The difference is memory: the bird flaps while you work, sleeps on breaks, celebrates when you finish, and gets visibly thin and red-eyed if you keep quitting. For anyone who has abandoned a plain timer four times, that record of what happened is the only feature that has ever made a difference.
No signup is needed to just run a timer; there are no ads. If you want the version that remembers you, make the free account.
Timerbird runs in a browser tab, so there is nothing to install and no app-store account to create. Open the page, choose 25 minutes and press start. The bird works while the countdown runs and sleeps when it ends. That is the whole loop; the rest of this section is the part most people skip.
If 25 minutes feels wrong, the number is not the point — the boundary is. The 25 minute timer page covers when to use 15, 25 or 50, and the pomodoro technique guide explains where the method came from. Students can start with the study timer; if starting is the hard part, the ADHD focus timer and body doubling timer are built for that specific wall.
Most timers forget you the moment the tab closes. Timerbird keeps a small record: sessions finished, sessions abandoned, daily check-ins and the bird's mood. That record is not a scoreboard for strangers; it is the thing that lets you see the difference between a bad day and a bad system. If you quit every session after 12 minutes, the honest fix is a 10-minute timer, not more willpower.
The timer is free and there are no ads, but it is not unlimited: 10 sessions as a guest, 50 with a free account, and after that a paid plan lifts the cap — plans are not open for purchase yet, so nothing is charged today. Shop items cost grain that only focusing earns.
No. It runs in a browser tab, including on locked-down school and work laptops, and the ambient sounds are generated live rather than downloaded.
With a free account it keeps your streaks, moods, check-ins, quit counts and away days, and it syncs between devices.
It's accountability with a memory. If a plain timer hasn't survived a week for you, the thing that changes the outcome is that something notices you left — see the ADHD focus timer and body doubling pages for the longer argument.
Finch is a self-care pet with daily check-ins and a subscription. Pomodoro Bird is a work timer first: the bird is tied to focus sessions and quitting, not to mood journaling. The Finch alternative comparison goes through it properly.
Yes. Progress, grain and shop collection can be exported, and deleting the account removes it.
3–4 short notes a year, new features only — no newsletter, no ads. How we handle email.