Cloister
A calm, native focus timer for your Mac's menu bar
Cloister launched on August 7, 2026 with 2 votes, #5,788 of 23,274 launches that month.
What it does
Cloister is a calm, native focus timer for macOS — a quiet menu-bar app, built on the Pomodoro rhythm, that stacks your focused hours into streaks and a year-long heatmap and keeps every session on your Mac. Free to use — Pro is a one-time purchase.
Cloister is a calm focus timer that lives in your Mac's menu bar. Begin a session, let the gold ring close, and watch your focused hours stack — one quiet day after another. One honest loop, repeated. A completed focus and its break make a stack — the single number that tells you the day went well. Start a session from the menu bar. The ring closes as your time runs — nothing else on screen asks for you. When focus ends, take the break it earned. Skip it and the stack doesn't count — the rest is part of the work. Focus plus break, both finished, is one stack. They gather into streaks, heatmaps, and hours you can look back on. A single tap opens the timer. The gold ring rides in your menu…from dochigarden.com
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