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Pomodoro tomato timer
C6 · Level 0 · No electricity Dumb as a rock

Pomodoro tomato timer

A wind-up, tomato-shaped kitchen timer.

$9Buy on Amazon
Amazon US, October 2026. Prices change.

Twist to twenty-five minutes, work until it rings. Francesco Cirillo named his technique after exactly this timer. It ticks, which turns out to help.

Calm
Does not compete for your attention: no notifications, feeds or endless content. Does its job and gets out of the way.

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Survival checklist

What it survives, next to the smart one it replaces.
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=SURVIVES(threat)Survives…
ThisPomodoro tomato timer
What it replacesSmart oneOpal screen-time app
2
Power cut
TRUE
FALSE
3
Wi-Fi goes down
TRUE
FALSE
4
The company switches off its servers
TRUE
FALSE
5
Someone tries to hack it
TRUE
FALSE
6
A firmware update goes wrong
TRUE
FALSE
7
Twenty years from now
TRUE
FALSE
8
=COUNTIF(TRUE)Total
6 of 66/6
0 of 60/6

The smart one is the Opal screen-time app.

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The kitchen timer the Pomodoro Technique is named after.

Pomodoro tomato timer

$9
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We looked. Sorry.

An electric timer without a chip is a clock with a motor. The tomato is one cell to the left.

Pomodoro tomato timer$9
Buy on Amazon