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jasonlong/mater has 600 GitHub stars and 43 forks. GitHot measured 0 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-09 10:39 UTC. Last push 2026-10-01.

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🍅 A simple, native macOS menubar Pomodoro app

600 stars43 forks

What you can do

  • Small unobtrusive menubar UI
  • Time ruler can be dragged in either direction while running to adjust time
  • Configurable work and break durations
  • Menubar icon counts down minutes remaining

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Mater

A minimal Pomodoro timer that lives in your macOS menu bar.

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Mater screenshot

As of version 3, Mater is now macOS-only and is now written in Swift.

Features

  • Small unobtrusive menubar UI
  • Time ruler can be dragged in either direction while running to adjust time
  • Configurable work and break durations
  • Menubar icon counts down minutes remaining
  • Keyboard shortcuts: spacebar to play/pause, escape to dismiss
  • Sound effects (by snd.dev) for winding and button clicks can be turned off

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap jasonlong/tap
brew install jasonlong/tap/mater

Manual

Download the latest .zip from Releases, unzip, and drag Mater to Applications.

What's with the name?

I'm a Pixar fan and Mater is awesome. "Like Ta-mater without the ta". Get it?

Mater truck

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