Cat On Chair: Pomodoro Timer
Cute ADHD Focus & Study Buddy
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Focus Together is here: start a room, invite your friends, and focus with everyone in real time. All your cats in one room, focus and breaks in sync.
Focus app doesn't have to feel cold or boring.
When you enter focus mode, a cat appears on the chair keeping you company. With a hand-drawn style and rich colors, Cat On Chair brings you a cozy, aesthetic pomodoro focus experience. The cat isn't only there to "supervise"; they're sharing the moment with you.
Stay motivated with gifts and rewards.
Complete a session, and your cat will bring you a gift. Fail, and you may be left with a little trash.
Gifts can be traded for fish, which unlock furniture and decorations for your cat's room. Seasonal updates bring new gifts, decor, and even more cats to collect.
Attention: May cause increased productivity, spontaneous cat adoption urges, and the inexplicable need to explain your work schedule to a digital pet.
Basic Features (Free Version)
- No ads
- Support for both Pomodoro and count-up modes
- Collect gifts and trash, sell for fish to buy new furniture and decor
- Block apps and websites to avoid interruptions
- Use a whitelist to pick the apps you want to use during focus sessions
- Note down your important tasks in a to-do list with due dates and reminders
- Focus Timeline to see today's sessions at a glance
- Stats overview to track your overall progress
- Export your cat's room as wallpaper to save your focus moments
- With Shortcuts, you can create automation to start a focus session whenever you need
- Earn achievements to show off in your cat's room
- Lock screen widget to start a session without unlocking the phone
- iCloud multi-device sync—seamlessly switch between iPhone and iPad
Upgrade to Pro for More Features
- Mix and match ambient sounds—cat purring, rain, fireplace, waves, café chatter—to create your perfect atmosphere
- Record your own custom alert sounds for session notifications
- Write custom cat quotes for session completion and failure messages
- Call your cat by name using your voice—they'll react when they hear you
- Apple Watch companion app—start, pause, and track sessions from your wrist
- Focus Timeline with full history—browse any date and add stickers to your timeline
- Detailed statistics: see your progress in day, week, month, and year view
- Sync focus sessions to Apple Health, Calendar, and Reminders
- Unlock different coat styles for your cats—change their look anytime
- Save and switch between whitelist presets for different focus scenarios
- More exclusive gifts, decorations, chairs, carpets, and room items
- Customize break length, cycles, and long breaks
- Add custom focus tags for better task management
- Multiple cat-themed app icons—change anytime to match your mood
- Home screen widgets: to-do list, focus status, and animated cat widgets
Currently supports iOS 17 and above.
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more Focus Together: Sessions now count down before auto-starting, and count-up sessions reward guests correctly.
Sound Mixer: Saved sound mix presets no longer revert after reopening the app.
Todos: Tasks with reminders are now ordered by their reminder date across Today, Tomorrow, and Upcoming.
Apple Watch: End a session on your watch and it stays ended, even with your phone connected.
Performance: Faster app launch, smoother timer, and a snappier focus timeline.
Bug Fixes: The floating picture-in-picture timer reliably reappears, resuming from the Lock Screen keeps extended sessions, and customization choices no longer get lost during sync.
1.8.3 3 days ago
Focus Together: Your friends' cats now show their names during sessions, and sessions begin together with an auto-start countdown.
Super Strict: Leave the app mid-session and you'll get an instant reminder to come back before your session fails — and sessions now survive locking your screen.
Timer Reliability: Focus sessions, breaks, and app blocking now recover correctly after screen lock or relaunching the app.
Long Sessions: The timer now shows hours once a session passes the one-hour mark.
Bug Fixes: No more duplicate calendar events when completing a todo, plus crash fixes, clearer iCloud warnings, and translation fixes.
1.8.2 18 Aug
Keep Going: When your Pomodoro ends, continue the same focus session with an open-ended count-up timer — choose Manual or Automatic in Settings, on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Stats by Todo: Switch the stats charts between tags and todos to see exactly which todos your focus time went to.
Better Gift Odds: Longer focus sessions now have higher chances of rare gifts, with clearer odds shown in Settings.
Todo Sorting: Todos with the same priority are now ordered by reminder time.
Bug Fixes: Deleted custom tags no longer reappear after iCloud sync, plus fixes for cat animations and notifications.
1.8.1 5 Aug
Focus Together: Start a room, invite your friends, and focus with everyone in real time. All your cats sit in one room, and you focus and break in sync.
Focus Room Widget: Add the new widget to your Home Screen. Tap it to start a session and watch the countdown right in your cat's room.
Two-Cat Mode: Pro members can keep two cats in the room. Give each one its own chair and coat, then shuffle the presets until it looks right.
Week Timeline: The new Pro Week view lets you pinch to zoom and tap any day to see how your whole week went.
Focus Leaderboard: A weekly Game Center leaderboard shows how your focus time compares with your friends'.
Floating Focus: Keep your timer and your cat in a small floating window while you use other apps.
Session Tasks: The task picker can open on its own when a session starts, so you always know what you sat down to do.
Count-Up Continuation: Still in the zone when the Pomodoro ends? Let the clock keep counting up instead of stopping.
Shortcuts While Locked: Start and stop timers with Shortcuts, without unlocking your phone.
Cat Voice: Your cat listens better now. Improved voice recognition makes calling it by name much more reliable.
Summer Gift Set: A summer collection arrives in the shop and in gift drops.
Sound Mixer: Save your favourite mixes as presets, let a sleep timer fade the sound at bedtime, and pick a sound for selling gifts.
Stats by Tag: Filter your stats by tag and see where your focus really goes.
Hide Comparison: Rather not see how you compare with the last period? Hide the focus time comparison in Settings.
Italian and German: The app now speaks Italian and German.
Reliability: Steadier session and Live Activity recovery, faster room sync, quicker widget and Shortcut starts, plus fixes for tags, to-dos, and iCloud sync.
1.8.0 1 Aug
Custom Backgrounds: Pro members can add up to five photos from the camera or photo library, use them across the app and widgets, and keep them synced between devices.
Kitty Dessert Shop: A sweet new background and matching Ice Cream Cone note icon join the shop.
Pause Timeline: Paused time in focus and bedtime sessions now appears clearly in the Timeline at every zoom level.
Bedtime Rewards: Starting bedtime before the scheduled window now honours your sleep intent, with more accurate duration details.
Trial Reminder: The trial-ending notification now explains how to review or cancel your subscription before an unwanted charge.
Support Email: Contacting support now includes privacy-conscious diagnostics to make issues easier to troubleshoot.
Timer Reliability: Improved count-up and paused-session recovery, auto-start breaks, widget and Shortcut starts, cancellation feedback, and Live Activity handling.
Data Reliability: Improved iOS 17 settings compatibility, sync and background persistence, and stopped sold gifts from returning after recovery.
Stability: Fixed crash paths across timers, ambient audio, voice triggers, achievements, Apple Watch, and data migration.
1.7.2 11 Jul
Auto-Start Break: Your break can now begin automatically when a focus session ends, so you can step away without tapping anything.
Postpone Overdue Tasks: Reschedule overdue to-dos to a later day with a single tap from your list.
Inline Completed Tasks: Finished to-dos now stay visible inline as you check them off.
New Furniture Set: A fresh furniture set joins the shop to decorate your cat's room.
Bedtime on Apple Watch: Start and stop bedtime sleep sessions right from your wrist.
Timeline: A smoother week selector makes it easier to browse your past focus days.
Vietnamese: The app and website are now available in Vietnamese.
iOS 17 Stability: Improved data persistence and recovery on iOS 17 keep sessions, stats, and rewards reliable.
Reliability: Steadier timer, Live Activity, and pause restore, recovered Pro access after updates, better gift drops for near-complete sets, and smoother bedtime handling.
1.7.1 8 Jul
Bedtime Lock: Automatically block selected apps when it's your sleep time, with sleep history, notes, and rewards when bedtime sessions finish.
Calendar Sync: Link tags to calendars, import new tag-calendar events, and manage mappings with steadier chooser screens.
Kitty’s Toy Box: A new cat-toy gift set joins the collection, with tuned drop chances and clearer gift-drop rules.
Sound Mixer: New lofi and Chill ambient sounds are available, with AirPlay route selection from the mixer.
Timer Controls: Unlimited pause duration and repeat focus/break alerts make long sessions easier to manage.
Widgets & Live Activities: Medium todo widgets can show tomorrow's tasks, bedtime clocks stay live, and break timers count down correctly.
Collection & Shop: Gift detail pages show obtained counts, sell failures explain what went wrong, and shop navigation is smoother.
Localization: Thai support and broader translated text coverage make more of the app feel complete.
1.7.0 29 Jun
Brown Noise: The brown noise ambient sound has been refreshed.
Focus Loop: Ending a break manually now continues the focus cycle more reliably, including Apple Watch auto-start flows.
Focus Screen: Focus sessions now allow the device to auto-lock normally.
Timeline: Failed focus sessions that count toward stats now appear in the Focus Timeline.
Achievements: Fish and collectible achievements now unlock more reliably from your saved progress.
Todo Stickers: Sticker editing on todos is steadier, with larger corner controls and smoother scroll behavior.
Rewards & Shop: New gifts stay preserved, purchased Shop items recover more reliably, and sell receipt buttons stay anchored at the bottom.
1.6.9 10 Jun
600 Fish Gift: From the last update, we are sending 600 fish as a small thank-you after a bug that could cause a crash when a focus session finished.
Summer App Icon: Cat On Chair has a fresh seasonal app icon for summer.
New Furniture Set: A playful new chair, desk, and rug set is available in the Shop.
Count-Up Recovery: Count-up focus sessions recover more reliably after the app is closed, interrupted, or reopened.
App Blocking Screen: Blocked-app screens use clearer, more consistent colors across appearance settings.
Cat Room Performance: Idle room animations use less background work while staying responsive.
1.6.8 1 Jun
600 Fish Gift: We are sending 600 fish as a small thank-you after a bug that could cause a crash when a focus session finished.
Momo Cat: Meet Momo, a sweet calico cat who brings a soft, cozy personality to your focus room.
Sunset Background: A new sunset background is available for your cat's room.
Force Break Reminders: Optional break reminders keep notifying you until you return to the app.
Todo Updates: Task context menus, tappable links, and clearer linked todo titles make todos easier to manage.
Shop & Gift Fixes: Fish purchases, upgrade bonuses, restored gifts, furniture previews, and cat rename placeholders behave more reliably.
UX Improvements: Startup performance, cancel progress colors, widgets, audio, notifications, sync, storage, and timer restore are smoother and more reliable.
Bug Fixes: Fixed crashes and recovery issues around completed sessions, restored gifts, break flow, and app launch.
1.6.7 28 May
Widget Updates: Home Screen widget assets now update automatically after customization changes, with no manual generation needed.
More Decor: Four new furniture sets add more chairs, lamps, and rugs, including one Pro-only set and one older set now available to free users.
Summer Backgrounds: Three new summer backgrounds are available, and two older backgrounds are now free.
Cat Animations: Cat animations now use higher-quality HEVC assets, including new jump animations and better wallpaper exports.
Sound Updates: New meow sounds and a music box ambient sound add more personality to focus sessions.
Timer Reliability: Count-up sessions and completion alerts recover more reliably after backgrounding or restore.
Data Recovery: More sync and store recovery paths help restore todos, tags, custom sounds, and focus data after migration or update issues.
1.6.6 18 May
Widget Updates: Home Screen widget assets now update automatically after customization changes, with no manual generation needed.
More Decor: Four new furniture sets add more chairs, lamps, and rugs, including one Pro-only set and one older set now available to free users.
Summer Backgrounds: Three new summer backgrounds are available, and two older backgrounds are now free.
Cat Animations: Cat animations now use higher-quality HEVC assets, including new jump animations and better wallpaper exports.
Sound Updates: New meow sounds and a music box ambient sound add more personality to focus sessions.
Timer Reliability: Count-up sessions and completion alerts recover more reliably after backgrounding or restore.
Data Recovery: More sync and store recovery paths help restore todos, tags, custom sounds, and focus data after migration or update issues.
1.6.5 17 May
Fish Statements: Tap your fish balance to review recent earnings, spending, and lifetime totals.
Collection Progress: Collect now shows clearer progress counts for achievements, gifts, and trash.
Break Timer Restore: Breaks and auto-started focus sessions resume more reliably across iPhone, Watch, and Live Activities.
Referral Rewards: Active referral credits retry more reliably so fish rewards are less likely to get stuck.
Data Recovery: More recovery paths help restore missing gifts, achievements, and collection progress after sync or update issues.
1.6.4 10 May
Whitelist Presets: Backup recovery better protects saved whitelist presets, and new presets now start empty.
Collection Progress: Sync and data repair now preserve gifts, achievements, and collectible progress more reliably.
Blocking Mode Migration: Older timer settings now carry over the selected blocking mode more safely.
Cat Face Widget: The Home Screen cat face widget now refreshes after changing cats.
1.6.3 6 May
Plant Gift Set: New plant-themed gifts and collectibles are here.
Orange Cat Coats: New orange cat coat variants, with a cleaner two-row onboarding preview.
Timeline Navigation: Swipe between dates in the focus timeline, with safer gesture handling so vertical scrolling stays smooth.
Session Todos: Link a todo to each focus session so it shows what you are working on, then see it later in the Focus Timeline.
Todo Dates and Delete Warnings: Dates sort more naturally, and delete warnings help protect task history.
Super Strict Mode: Screen lock is now supported in super strict focus, with safer controls and clearer onboarding timing.
iCloud Sync Reliability: Stronger recovery protects settings, sessions, tags, gifts, fish, and duplicate data across devices.
iOS 17 Data Repair: Improved local store repair helps recover older data more safely after storage or sync issues.
Performance and Polish: Faster Collect, Shop, and Stats screens, better timer audio reliability, and improved Traditional Chinese font support.
1.6.2 30 Apr
Features
New Ambient Sounds: Added bird, library, keyboard, and flipbook sounds to the sound mixer.
Sound Mixer Redesign: Refreshed sound mixer layout for a cleaner look.
Stats Charts: New trend lines and session range charts in your statistics.
Bug Fixes
Audio Fix: Fixed the app pausing music from other apps on launch.
Ambient Sound Fix: Ambient sounds now start playing immediately when breaks begin.
Todo Fix: Fixed tapping the todo list causing the app to become unresponsive on iOS 18.
Notification Sound Fix: Fixed notification sound playing twice when the app is in foreground.
Shop Fix: You can now preview multiple locked items across categories without losing your selection.
Font Fix: Fixed shop item titles using the wrong font for Traditional Chinese.
Tag Selection Fix: Custom tag selection now persists when relaunching the app.
Performance: Faster app launch with optimized loading.
1.6.1 13 Apr
Features
Room Presets: Save and switch between different room setups with one tap.
New Widget Backgrounds: Added sky and pond backgrounds for your widgets.
Swipe Timer Mode: Swipe horizontally on the timer to switch between countdown and count-up modes.
Watch Session Persistence: Apple Watch now saves completed sessions even if the connection drops temporarily.
Longer Count-Up Live Activity: Count-up Live Activity now stays active for up to 8 hours.
Trial Reminder: Get a notification before your free trial ends so you don't miss out.
Cash Register Sound: Hear a satisfying cash register sound when you sell a gift.
Bug Fixes
Battery Fix: Fixed count-up mode silently draining battery in the background.
Timer Restore Fix: Fixed timer jumping or drifting when restoring from background.
Hold-to-Cancel Fix: Fixed hold-to-cancel gesture being blocked by the cat tap overlay.
Voice Trigger Fix: Voice trigger now pauses when other audio is playing to prevent music interruption.
Watch Complication Fix: Fixed cat complication rendering and sync on Apple Watch.
Localization Fix: Fixed notifications showing Japanese text in English, Spanish, and French.
1.6.0 8 Apr
Pause Sessions: Pause and resume your focus sessions — your cat will wait for you. Available in settings.
Dim Screen in Super Strict Mode: New toggle to dim the screen during super strict focus sessions for fewer distractions.
Custom Cat Sounds: Set custom sounds for cat interaction feedback.
Spring Gift Set: New spring-themed gifts and collectibles are here.
New Font for zh-Hant: Traditional Chinese now uses a beautiful handwritten font on widgets and Apple Watch.
iCloud Sync Fix: Fixed an issue where the iCloud sync toggle could turn off by itself after a temporary connection loss, which could cause fish to be lost.
1.5.10 28 Mar
Brown Noise & White Noise: Two new ambient sounds to help you stay focused — mix them into your perfect atmosphere.
Battery Improvements: Reduced battery drain on Apple Watch and iPhone during focus sessions.
Performance: Improved sticker rendering performance in Focus Timeline and Todo List views.
Website Blocking Fix: Fixed an issue where website blocking was not enforced in whitelist mode.
iCloud Sync Fix: Fixed deleted settings and custom sounds reappearing after syncing across devices.
1.5.9 25 Mar
Traditional Chinese Fix: Fixed an issue where Traditional Chinese text was not displaying correctly for users in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Stability Improvements: Fixed multiple crashes across the app including the stats view and purchase screens.
General bug fixes and improvements.
1.5.8 23 Mar
Todo Delete Confirmation: A confirmation screen now appears when deleting tasks, so you won't accidentally lose your to-dos.
Battery and performance improvements.
General bug fixes.
1.5.7 19 Mar
New Cat Face Widget: A brand new small widget featuring your cat's break loop face—centered and adorable on your home screen. Choose from 25 beautiful background images to match your style.
Widget Background Images: Both the Cat Face and Focus Status widgets now support customizable background images—pick from all the room themes you know and love.
Swipe to Adjust Timer: Swipe up or down on the idle screen to quickly adjust your focus duration—no need to open settings.
Share as Image: Share your focus results as a beautiful 4:5 image, perfect for social media.
Restore Purchases: Easily restore purchases and manage Family Sharing directly from Settings.
Todo Widget Today Filter: The "Today" filter now correctly shows only tasks with a today due date, instead of including all undated tasks.
Session Completion Note Editor: Add and edit notes directly after a session is completed.
General bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.5.6 18 Mar
New Content: Meet Pixel, our newest cat! Plus new coats for Rolling and Finnick, and a refreshed app icon for spring.
Home Screen Widgets: New status and todo list widgets for your home screen—see your focus stats, daily progress, and tasks at a glance with customizable backgrounds and stickers.
Wallpaper Export: Choose your cat's pose when exporting wallpapers—Focus, Staring, or Meow—to make your lock screen truly yours.
Watch Face Complication: Your selected cat now appears as a watch face complication, so your favorite companion is always with you.
Tag Reordering: Drag to reorder your tags exactly how you like them (Pro feature).
iCloud Sync Improvements: Hardened sync with better migration handling, quota exceeded warnings, and more reliable data recovery on new devices.
Timer & Session Fixes: Fixed timer recovery for count-up breaks, Live Activity resume, and settings drift—sessions now restore correctly across all scenarios.
Stats Fix: Fixed weekly stats view and Monday-start support so your focus patterns display correctly.
Watch Sync: Improved watch sync startup, added sync-required access flow, and fixed race conditions in watch communication.
UI Polish: Fixed todo widget text clipping and various localization improvements across all supported languages.
1.5.5 14 Mar
New Features:
• Ambient sounds now continue playing during break sessions
• Sync your todos to Apple Reminders
• Watch face complication showing your selected cat
Bug Fixes:
• Fixed ambient sounds not playing reliably during breaks
• Fixed app interrupting external audio when starting a focus session
• Fixed ambient volume slider
• Improved iCloud sync reliability and data recovery
• Fixed iCloud conflict dialog
Performance:
• Improved stats screen loading speed
1.5.4 7 Mar
Count-Up Mode: Breaks now have their own independent timer settings in count-up mode, so you can customize focus and rest separately.
Super Strict Blocking: A new blocking mode that keeps distracting apps locked down even more tightly during focus sessions—your Watch respects it too.
Custom Shield Screen: Personalize the blocked app screen with your own message, attributed to your cat.
Sync & Reliability: Achievements, collectibles, and timer settings now sync faster and more reliably across all your devices.
Watch Improvements: Timer state syncs more reliably between iPhone and Watch, with fixes for animation glitches and collectible delivery.
UI Polish: Smoother fade transitions throughout the app, better performance in the collection and stats views, and the onboarding text has been rewritten in cat voice.
1.5.3 6 Mar
Focus Together: Sessions now count down before auto-starting, and count-up sessions reward guests correctly.
Sound Mixer: Saved sound mix presets no longer revert after reopening the app.
Todos: Tasks with reminders are now ordered by their reminder date across Today, Tomorrow, and Upcoming.
Apple Watch: End a session on your watch and it stays ended, even with your phone connected.
Performance: Faster app launch, smoother timer, and a snappier focus timeline.
Bug Fixes: The floating picture-in-picture timer reliably reappears, resuming from the Lock Screen keeps extended sessions, and customization choices no longer get lost during sync.
more Version 1.8.3 3 days ago
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