Zen Focus
A beautiful Pomodoro timer with ambient sounds 🧘
A minimalist Pomodoro timer app with calming ambient sounds and beautiful purple/teal gradients. 25-minute focus sessions with 5-minute breaks to maintain productivity and wellbeing.
Productivity Without Burnout
Nikil wants to achieve more while staying happy, relaxed, and healthy. The Pomodoro technique is proven effective, but most timer apps are either too basic or too cluttered.
- 1Existing Pomodoro apps lack ambiance
- 2Hard to maintain focus in a quiet room
- 3No beautiful, calming timer apps
- 4Wanted productivity AND wellbeing combined
Focus + Calm = Zen
Zen Focus combines a beautiful Pomodoro timer with ambient sounds. Choose from rain, café, waves, or forest soundscapes.
Pomodoro Timer
25-min focus / 5-min break cycles with visual progress
Ambient Sounds
Rain 🌧️ Café ☕ Waves 🌊 Forest 🌲 - pick your vibe
Session Counter
Track how many focus sessions you've completed today
Beautiful Design
Calming gradients that shift with your focus state
Screenshots
Technical Deep Dive
Architecture
Next.js app with Web Audio API for seamless ambient sound loops. Tailwind CSS with custom gradient transitions.
Tech Stack
Challenges & Solutions
Seamless audio loops
Web Audio API with buffer looping for gapless ambient playback
Visual state transitions
CSS gradient transitions that smoothly shift between focus/break modes
Results & Impact
The perfect balance of productivity tools and wellbeing.
Highlights
- Combines proven productivity technique with ambient calm
- Mobile-friendly for focus sessions anywhere
- Beautiful design encourages consistent use
Lessons Learned
- →Productivity and relaxation aren't opposites
- →Audio enhances focus when done right
- →Simple features, executed beautifully, beat feature bloat