Pomenetes (formerly TomatoBar)

Overview

Pomenetes is a modern, fully sandboxed Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar. All the essential features are here—configurable work and rest intervals, optional sounds, discreet actionable notifications, global hotkey, and more.

Pomenetes is a direct continuation and enhancement of TomatoBar, with a new name, new icon pipeline, and improved build automation.

Key Features & Enhancements

• Fully renamed and rebranded as Pomenetes (formerly TomatoBar)
• Modernized icon pipeline with automated badge/status overlay support
• New scripts for asset generation and Contents.json automation
• Increases the maximum timer duration to 2 hours/120 minutes
• Adds an option to toggle Do Not Disturb automatically using a shortcut
• Adds sound customization: to use, open the sound folder from settings and place audio files named "windup", "ding" or "ticking" in mp3 or m4a/mp4 (aac/alac) format
• Adds a preset selector with 4 presets you can quickly switch between
• Adds a pause button, keyboard shortcut, and URL
• Adds a skip button, keyboard shortcut, and URL which can skip both work and rest
• Adds an "add a minute" button, keyboard shortcut, and URL
• Extends "stop after break" with "work" and "set" options
• Adds a "start with break" option
• Adds a "start timer on launch" option
• Makes numbers in the settings editable
• Displays current interval on the start/stop button when "Stop after" is disabled
• Turns the volume display into a percentage, adds long tap gesture on the percentage to mute/unmute
• Adds an option for a full screen mask
• Doesn't play sounds when volume is set to zero
• Increases the minimum macOS version requirement to Monterey

Controlling the timer

Pomenetes can be controlled using pomenetes:// URLs. To start or stop the timer from the command line, use open pomenetes://startStop. To pause or resume use open pomenetes://pauseResume. To skip use open pomenetes://skip. To add a minute use open pomenetes://addMinute

Older versions

Touch bar integration and older macOS versions (earlier than Big Sur) are supported by TomatoBar versions prior to 3.0

Licenses

• Timer sounds are licensed from buddhabeats
• "macos-focus-mode.shortcut" is taken from the macos-focus-mode project under the MIT license.