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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 3, 2026	4	5.00	5	2.0.0
Apr 17, 2026	7	5.00	6	2.0.0
Apr 23, 2026	19	5.00	8	3.0.1
Apr 28, 2026	16	5.00	8	3.0.1
May 5, 2026	16	5.00	8	3.0.1
May 11, 2026	19	5.00	8	3.0.1
May 16, 2026	22	5.00	8	3.0.1
May 22, 2026	23	5.00	8	3.0.1
May 29, 2026	20	5.00	8	3.0.1
Jun 5, 2026	17	5.00	8	3.0.1
Jun 11, 2026	18	5.00	8	3.0.1
Now	23	5.00	8	3.0.1

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Apr 17, 2026

description

A beautiful Pomodoro timer with ambient soundscapes, two skins (Classic Cassette & Modern), scenic themes, and keyboard shortcuts.

A skeuomorphic Pomodoro timer that turns your new tab into a focus machine — with ambient soundscapes, two visual skins, and scenic background themes.

🎛 Two Skins
• Classic Cassette — Retro beige shell, spinning tape reels, green LCD digits, and tactile silver transport buttons.
• Modern — Teenage Engineering-inspired warm cream device with bold typography and orange tactile controls.
Switch between them anytime from the theme picker.

⏱ Focus & Break Cycles
• Customizable focus sessions (5–60 minutes) and break periods (1–30 minutes).
• Automatic long break (15 minutes) every 4 sessions.
• Session tracking pips show your progress through each cycle.

🎵 Soundscapes
Choose from five ambient sound modes to help you concentrate:
• Off — Silence.
• Ambient — Warm evolving drone pads with gentle noise bed.
• Lo-fi — Full musical engine with chord progressions, soft arpeggios, vinyl crackle, tape hiss, and reverb.
• Noise — Brown and pink noise blend with gentle filter drift for deep focus.
• Rain — Layered rain with droplets and distant thunder swells.

🎨 6 Background Themes (Classic Skin)
• Midnight (default), Retro Film, Mountain Dusk, Ocean Night, Tokyo Night, Forest Mist.

🔔 Completion Alerts
• Three-strike bell chime with reverb when each session ends.
• Desktop notification with session details.
• Visual pulse glow on the player.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts
• Space — Play / Pause
• R — Reset
• S — Skip phase
• L — Toggle soundscape on/off

📌 New Tab Override
Opens as your new tab page — every Cmd+T (or Ctrl+T) puts you right back in focus mode.

✏️ Task Input
Type what you're working on to stay intentional. Persists across sessions.

Built with Web Audio API — no audio files, no network requests, no tracking. Just a timer and some good sounds.

Pomodoro Cassette

A retro-vintage Pomodoro timer with four cassette/CRT/typewriter skins, ambient soundscapes, todos, and a markdown scratchpad.

**Pomodoro Cassette** turns your new tab into a beautiful skeuomorphic focus tool inspired by the cassette decks, typewriters, and CRT TVs of decades past. Built for people who want their productivity tools to feel like physical objects, not flat dashboards.

What's inside

v3.0.1 — Hover-to-reveal edit and delete buttons on todo items, restore button for dismissed keyboard shortcuts strip, footer credit with developer attribution, minor polish.

⏱ Pomodoro timer with four collectible skins**
Switch between Classic Cassette, Modern (Teenage Engineering inspired), Typewriter, and CRT TV — each one a complete reskin with its own typography, materials, and details. Pick the one that matches your mood or your desk.

🎵 Five ambient soundscapes**
Built-in synthesized ambient, lo-fi, white noise, and rain — generated live in the browser, no streaming. Music auto-pauses when you pause the timer and resumes when you start again, so the audio always matches what you're doing.

🔔 A bell you won't miss**
A double-ring ascending chime plays at full volume when a session completes, paired with a persistent system notification that stays on screen until you dismiss it. No more sessions ending while you're heads-down in another tab.

✅ One-task-at-a-time todos**
A four-bucket task system (Now, Not Now, On Hold, Done) built around the philosophy of single-focus work. Drag tasks between buckets, promote them with a click, and watch your current focus auto-sync to the cassette display.

📝 Markdown scratchpad on a sticky note**
Jot quick notes on a yellow legal pad with handwritten font, ruled lines, and a strip of tape across the top. Write in markdown, hit Preview to see it rendered. Supports headings, bold, italic, lists, checkboxes, blockquotes, links, and code.

⌨️ Full keyboard support
Space to play/pause, R to reset, S to skip, L to toggle sound. Every interactive element is reachable via Tab and operable via Enter/Space.

♿ Designed inclusively
Every text element passes WCAG AA contrast (4.5:1 minimum). All buttons have descriptive aria-labels. Skip-to-content link, focus-visible outlines, ARIA roles throughout, and respect for reduced motion.

What's new in v3.0

- New skin picker pill bar at the top with show/hide controls
- Two new skins: Typewriter and CRT TV (joining Classic and Modern)
- Four-bucket todo system replacing the flat list
- Markdown scratchpad with toggleable preview
- Soundscape now pauses with the timer
- Stronger phase-complete alert (double-ring bell, persistent notification)
- Full WCAG AA accessibility audit and contrast pass
- Keyboard shortcuts strip with dismiss option

Privacy

Pomodoro Cassette runs entirely in your browser. It does not collect, track, transmit, or sell any data. Your tasks, notes, timer settings, and skin preferences are stored locally using Chrome's storage API and never leave your device. There are no analytics, no third-party scripts, no network requests of any kind beyond loading Google Fonts for the typography.

Apr 17, 2026

short_description

A skeuomorphic Pomodoro timer with ambient soundscapes — cassette & modern skins.

A skeuomorphic Pomodoro timer with 4 device skins, ambient soundscapes, and background themes.

Permissions & access

Permissions: storagealarmsnotificationsoffscreen
Host access: None declared

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