Lifeline Timer
macOS / Productivité
See your entire workday at a glance. Lifeline lives in your Mac's menu bar and draws a real-time "lifeline" of your day: a visual timeline of focus sessions, meetings, breaks, and idle time. One look tells you exactly how your day is going.
Work in focused sessions and earn a tomato every 25 minutes. It’s Pomodoro timing done right, with breaks your brain will actually thank you for.
## Why Lifeline?
Most timer apps just count down. Lifeline shows the shape of your whole day, not just the next 25 minutes. When you can see your time, you make better decisions about it.
"The concept of seeing the time as a line during the day is mind-blowing." - Mika
"I've tried other Pomodoro timers, but have settled on this one." - Emily
"This app is the perfect tool for my workflow!" - Don
"Really enjoy the timer and its advanced functionalities." - Michael
## Features
Visual Lifeline: A progress bar in your menu bar paints your day in real time. Open the floating panel for a detailed view.
Focus sessions with tomato rewards: Start a session, stay focused, earn a tomato for every 25 minutes of real work.
Committed mode: Lock yourself into a session. Strict breaks enforced, no skipping or shortening. Calendar-aware, so breaks adjust if a meeting is coming up.
Meeting tracking: Connect your calendar. Lifeline tracks meetings alongside sessions with break suggestions after.
Configurable break ratios: Choose Pomodoro (5:1), Deep Rest (3:1), or set your own ratio. Lifeline tracks break debt and reminds you when you need a break based on how much you've actually worked.
Keyboard shortcuts: Start sessions, trigger breaks, navigate entirely from the keyboard.
AI tool integration: Control Lifeline from any AI assistant via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Analyze your productivity, start sessions from your AI workflow, or build custom automations. Full AppleScript support included.
## Pro Features: One-Time Purchase
Free to download. Upgrade to Pro once to unlock:
- Custom session lengths
- Session labels with emoji categorization
- Daily and weekly review panel
- Calendar integration and meeting tracking
- Lifeline color customization
- Data export
No subscription. Pay once, own it.
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Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
Lifeline 1.8.2 brings quality-of-life improvements and a major update for MCP users. You can now see and clean up untracked screen time in the Activity Log (enable under Preferences > Sessions), and a new Privacy pane in Preferences lets you opt out of analytics, clear your activity history, or reset your anonymous identity at any time.
For MCP users, v0.2 expands the toolkit significantly. Two new analytics tools compute stats like daily averages, hourly distributions, and label breakdowns across any date range, and compare productivity between two periods. A new labels tool surfaces your full session-label dictionary for use in auto-suggestions or analysis.
Pre-built prompts for daily reviews, focus-block analysis, and weekly summaries now work in any MCP-compatible client. Also fixed: adding or editing activities via MCP used to silently fail when time was passed as a string.
Plus small tweaks and bug fixes under the hood.
