Ember — Pomodoro Timer

About

Ember is a pomodoro timer that stays out of your way. No accounts, no ads,
no tracking — just a quiet, warm place to focus.

THE TIMER

• Three modes — the pomodoro cycle, a one-shot timer, and a stopwatch.
• Toolbar countdown — the badge shows minutes remaining, color-coded by
  phase, so you never need to open anything to know where you stand.
• Compact popup — start, pause, reset, skip, or label your session in one
  click from the toolbar.
• Side panel — keep the timer beside the page you're working on.
• Full-page focus view — a large progress ring you can drag like a dial to
  set the length, zen mode (press z) for just the flame and the time, and
  a pop-out floating mini timer (picture-in-picture).
• Overtime (optional) — focus runs past zero counting up until you end it.
• Strict focus (optional) — interrupting a focus session takes a deliberate
  press-and-hold instead of a stray click.
• Global shortcut — Alt+Shift+P starts/pauses from any tab.
• Focus on this — select a task's text on any page, right-click, and
  "Start focus on …" begins a session labeled with it.

GENTLE SITE BLOCKING (optional)

List your distracting sites and, while focus runs, their tabs rest on a
quiet "it can wait" page showing the time left. The moment the session
ends — or you pause — the page offers the way back. Blocking is fully
opt-in: Chrome asks for the permission only if you enable it, and Ember
only ever acts on the sites you list, only while focus runs.

STATS THAT STAY YOURS

A full dashboard tracks time worked per day: today / week / streak cards,
a week·month·year chart with an optional daily-goal line, an hour-of-day
"when you focus" skyline, a deletable session ledger, and a year heatmap.
Label sessions with what you're working on ("thesis draft") and see a
per-label breakdown. Everything lives in local browser storage and can be
exported or imported as JSON (plus CSV) — Ember never sees your data.

THE QUIET DETAILS

• Phase-end notifications with action buttons (start focus, 5 more break
  minutes) and one gentle reminder if a finished phase sits unstarted.
• Lock-aware — locking the machine auto-pauses focus, so the lock screen
  never counts as work.
• Sound — three synthesized chime voices, a 30-second break-end warning,
  and optional ambient focus sound (ticking · rain · noise). All generated
  locally; nothing is downloaded.
• A daily goal with one quiet cheer when you cross it.
• Twelve themes plus an auto light/dark swatch, and a flame accent picker.
• Settings sync across your machines; stats stay local.

BUILT TO BE TRUSTWORTHY

• Open source — the whole extension is on GitHub, so every claim below is
  something you can read and verify, not just take on trust:
  https://github.com/souravas/ember-pomodoro-timer
• No data collection — nothing ever leaves your machine.
• No install-time host permissions. Site blocking asks for its permission
  only when you turn it on, and works only on the domains you list.
• No remote code, no analytics, no network requests. Fonts and sounds are
  bundled or synthesized locally.
• The timer survives browser restarts: it is anchored to a timestamp, not
  a fragile countdown, so it stays accurate even when Chrome suspends the
  extension.

The pomodoro technique: work in focused sprints (traditionally 25 minutes),
then take a short break; every few sprints, take a longer one. Ember keeps
the count so you can keep your attention on the work.