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Work · August 7, 2026

Cloister

A calm, native focus timer for your Mac's menu bar

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.

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