Everything PomoZentra does, explained plainly — from your first sprint to how the score is actually calculated.
PomoZentra is a focus timer with one extra idea: after each sprint, you record what the block actually produced, and the day rolls up into a single honest score. Open the app, pick a role template, and you'll have categories, a starter task list and a weekly plan ready to go.
The whole loop is three moves, repeated: pick one task, focus for one interval, log what you produced. Everything else — the score, trends, streaks — is built from those logs.
Focus runs as a capsule that fills toward the end of the sprint, rather than an anxious countdown clock. There are three modes:
Every duration is adjustable in Settings, as is the long-break interval. You can auto-start breaks, auto-start the next round, and auto-select the next task — or keep a hard manual stop so finishing a sprint is a deliberate act. A gentle alarm marks the end of each interval, with a choice of tones, an adjustable volume, optional repeat, and optional desktop notifications.
Your day is a short queue of tasks. Each task has a title, a category, and a target number of rounds. A task can be a one-off or recurring — daily, weekdays, or weekly on chosen days — and recurring tasks rebuild your queue automatically each day.
Mark one task as your must-win for the day. As you log rounds, a task moves from active to done; close out the day and any unfinished tasks are recorded honestly as partial or skipped, without touching your output score.
The Founder template ships with a guided Day Start: review yesterday, pick today's three outcomes, choose your first priority block, and remove friction. It's a five-minute admin task that sets the shape of the day.
Every sprint is tagged to exactly one category. Categories are how the score tells valuable work from comfortable work.
| Category | Covers | Role in the score |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | Sales, outbound, offers | Priority — scores high |
| Delivery | Client work, shipping product | Priority — highest base |
| Admin | Inbox, ops, billing, planning | Necessary — capped |
| Learning | Study tied to a real goal | Counts, modestly |
| Personal | Errands, family, fitness | Logged, no penalty |
| Waste | Scrolling, doomloops | Honest log — costs points |
You can rename categories, change colours, add custom buckets, and mark which ones count as priority. Personal and Waste always exist so there's an honest place to put everything.
When an interval completes, the round-log opens. Outputs are scoped to the finished task's category, so you only see the units that matter — for a Revenue block that might be cold emails sent, replies received and calls booked.
Each output type carries a score weight. You define the ones that matter to you; a sensible default makes a booked call worth far more than a sent email. You also rate the round — yes, partly or no — which feeds the focus side of the score.
The daily score combines two honest signals: results (the weighted output you logged) and focus (showing up for the plan you set). Each completed round earns a base value by category, and logged outputs add on top.
Logged outputs multiply by their weight and add to the round. A round never scores below its category base, so logging is always safe — it can only help an honest block.
Your daily target isn't arbitrary. From a weekly goal and a typical day, PomoZentra derives a target such that completing your own plan lands you exactly on it. Over-deliver and you climb past target; coast and the gap is visible. An admin-overload warning fires when low-value work creeps past your cap.
A streak counts consecutive days where you hit your daily round target — by default 12 focus rounds. Waste rounds don't count toward it. The streak is a quiet nudge, not a guilt machine: miss a day and it simply resets, with no shaming and no lost history.
The rotation planner lets you decide the shape of the week in advance: how many sprints each category gets, per day. A founder week front-loads outbound Monday and Tuesday, protects a deep delivery block on Wednesday, and caps admin at one round a day.
Save the plans you like as named templates — up to ten — and switch between them as seasons change (a launch week looks different from a delivery week).
Templates are a fast, sensible starting point. Each one seeds categories, a starter task list and a weekly rotation:
Switching templates re-seeds your plan; your logged history is never touched.
The report views show output by day and week, your priority-time percentage, and the breakdown behind each day's score. When you need the raw record — for yourself, a coach, or an accountability partner — export the full log as CSV. A shareable day card turns a single day's score and output into a clean image to post or send.
Settings is where the defaults become yours:
Sign in with Google to sync your workspace across devices. When you're offline or sync is unavailable, a local fallback keeps the app open and the timer running, then catches up when you reconnect.
Your data is yours: portable by design, exportable any time, and never sold. For the full detail, see the Privacy Policy.