10 min25 min50 minFlow ∞
Find your kind of focus.
Start with ten minutes. Settle into twenty-five. Or let the timer count up, with no finish line.
GOOD SOFTWARE. DIFFERENT ECONOMICS.
Your focus.
Your data.
Your rules.
Start with a timer. Stay for recurring tasks, honest time reports and tools that talk to your tools.
Leave the subscriptions behind.
Works offline · No account · No subscriptions
One thing is enough.
THIS TIME IS YOURS
ONE THING AT A TIME
25:00Write the first draft
▷ Start focusingSpace
Then a 5 min pause.Yours to spend.
Look that up later.
Thought parked. Focus kept.small tools. strong principles.
Interactive product concept · explore the proposed experience. Sync, payments and external connections are previews.
LESS TO MANAGE. MORE ROOM TO BEGIN.
From “where do I start?”
to one thing underway.
One small next step25 min
A plan that comes back ready.
Projects, tags, estimates and recurring tasks. See the time your plan needs, with breaks. Reschedule an occurrence without breaking its routine.
Your time becomes useful data.
See your best focus hours, distractions and top tags. Turn actual sessions into a timesheet, including manually added work.
SIMPLE TO START. ROOM TO GO DEEP.
A small surface.
A surprisingly capable toolkit.
DATA FOR NERDSFind the hours
Find the hours
that work for you.
Best focus windows. Distraction patterns. Top projects and tags. One day or a whole year, with filters that follow every chart.
Explore the reports →09–100.2
10–110.4
14–152.4
Illustrative distractions / focused hourA little pattern.
A better plan for tomorrow.
A better plan for tomorrow.
Your timer can be
your timesheet.
Website 4:05Studio 1:50Learning 1:15
Clients, billable flags, notes and manual corrections. Export a filtered CSV or print your report.
See the timesheet →SET IT ONCEGood routines.
Less retyping.
MTWTFSS
Every day, weekdays, selected days, months or years. Pause a routine. Choose what happens when you miss one.
Explore recurring tasks →MAKE IT YOURSA calm app.
Your kind of calm.
Six palettes to start. Custom colours with a live preview and contrast feedback. Export your own palette.
Try the palette studio →AN OPEN TOOL IN YOUR TOOLKIT
Your next plan
could start with
a conversation.
Connect your own compatible chat or coding agent to the fair.ninja MCP server. It can add tasks, finish a Pomodoro and fetch all your sessions to analyse in that client.
Explore the MCP server →MCP serverOpen APIWebhooks
WHEN THIS, THEN THAT
Finish a session.
Let the handoff happen.
01
Save your actual focus timeTomato → your own history
02
Update your calendar or timesheetGoogle Calendar · Outlook · Sheets
03
Explore the connection designs →Send an event to your workflowIFTTT · Zapier · Make · n8n · HTTP
External services need internet and may have their own fees. The local timer, tasks and reports stay available offline.
MEET BRAVE BEAVER
Brave little beaver.
Big fair idea.
“Developers deserve to get paid.
Users deserve not to be trapped.”
We’re building a family of useful apps with three promises.
Works offline.
Focus, plan and review your work on your own device. External connections can wait until you are online.
You own your data.
Keep a local copy. Export your history. Take it elsewhere. No subscription stands between you and your work.
Kill the subscriptions.
Local use is free. Hosted usage spends prepaid chips from one shared wallet. No default auto top-up or renewal. A clear margin funds the people building and maintaining your tools.
Fair for the people using it.
Fair for the people building it.
ONE WALLET. A GROWING FAMILY.
Software got cheaper to build.
We think it should get
cheaper to use too.
Tomato is the first app in a public experiment. Shared foundations, AI-assisted development and a community that helps us build better. Good features, prepaid chips, no subscription.
This is our thesis to test. Real costs, human effort and what went wrong belong in the open report too.
Meet the whole fair.ninja idea →BEAVER TEST COLONY
Break our apps.
Tell us what sucks.
A confusing bill. A recurring task that feels wrong. A useful workflow we missed. Tell us, help check the fix, and shape the next tool.
Brave Beaver stands for software that is fair to use and fair to build. The first recruitment target is 20 testers; the community program is still a concept.
Explore the Colony concept →Try real work
Tasks, time reports, automation recipes and custom palettes that you would actually use.
Help check what changes
Feedback → clear response → visible fix. Proposed chip rewards recognise useful reports and reproducible bugs.
Tell people what really works
Honest experiences on AlternativeTo and relevant app listings. Rewards are never tied to positive reviews, stars or votes.
No live community, rewards, listings or recruitment results are claimed by this mock.
A FAIR COMPARISON INCLUDES THE STRONG ALTERNATIVES.
More than a timer.
Also true of our competition.
Public feature documentation checked 10 September 2026. Tomato is the proposed design scope. Other columns describe published products, including paid features.
| Capability | Tomato this mock / proposed | Pomofocus | Focus To-Do | Super Productivity | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom focus timer | In mock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Recurring tasks | In mock | Templates¹ | Yes | Yes | Not verified |
| Projects & time reports | In mock | Paid / free mix | Yes | Yes | Reports |
| Timesheet export | In mock | CSV · paid | Not verified | Yes | Pro |
| External task integrations | Setup designs | Todoist · paid | Not verified | GitHub, Jira & more | Not verified |
| Outgoing webhooks | Setup design | Paid | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified |
| MCP / agent access | Setup design + plan review | Not verified | Not verified | Community add-on³ | Not verified |
| App / website blocking | Native / extension design | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Pro |
| Business model | Free local + prepaid services | Free + Premium | Free + purchases² | Free, open source | Free + Pro |
Sources: Pomofocus, Focus To-Do, Super Productivity, Flow. “Not verified” means these sources did not establish it, not that the feature is absent. ¹ Templates are not dated recurrence rules. ² Focus To-Do’s US App Store listing also lists a lifetime purchase; subscriptions are not the only competing model. ³ Community MCP adapter; independent of the core product. Todoist and Trello also offer official MCP access.
Read the full product research →A FEW STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Before you settle in.
Do I need an account or a card?
No. The timer, tasks, reflections and export work without either. Open Tomato and start.
What can I explore in this mock?
Focus, planning, recurring-task setup, Overview, Data for nerds, timesheets, custom palettes and connection designs. Use the sample workspace to explore a fictional year of history. Interactions help evaluate the design; there is no production sync, payment system, MCP server or external account connection.
Does one payment mean a lifetime of cloud service?
No. The intended model is credit consumed by actual online usage at published rates. Hosted services consume prepaid chips from one wallet. Auto top-up is off by default. A projection uses your recent consumption and current rates; the mock shows an explicitly illustrative example, not a lifetime guarantee.
Where is my data?
In this browser. The prototype doesn't send your tasks or usage to a server. Export a backup to keep your own independent copy: clearing browser storage can remove the local one. Your personal workspace and sample workspace are separate.
Will the alarm work with my phone locked?
The timer can recover elapsed time when you return, but browsers can suspend or close background pages. A precise alarm with a locked screen is not guaranteed. This prototype is best experienced in an open desktop browser.
Can I keep using my usual task manager?
Yes. Tomato can be just a timer, with no tasks at all. The Connect mock explores task adapters, calendars, Slack, automation platforms, webhooks and MCP. None of those connections are live yet.
THE NEXT LITTLE BEGINNING IS YOURS.
One thing.
Then the next.
Make a little space Works offline. You own your data. No subscriptions.