Hokkori — a cozy pomodoro room
Hokkori is a free cozy pomodoro timer — a warm, hand-drawn pixel-art room you visit to focus. Start a session and the room responds: day turns to night, rain taps the window while you work. Mix your own ambient soundscape from lofi music, rain, fire, and more. No ads, ever. No account required. Works offline.
Features
- Pomodoro timer with focus and break sessions
- A pixel-art room that responds to your session (day/night, rain while focusing)
- Live city weather in the window — pick any city and watch its real rain, snow, storms, wind, and seasons; six cities (Bangkok, Tokyo, London, Reykjavík, New York, Sydney) have hand-drawn landmark views
- 3-channel ambient sound mixer — rain and fire from real recordings (synthesized fallback offline), plus a lofi channel with three tracks or a synthesized pad
- Tasks, focus stats, and streaks — kept in your browser, with an optional email sign-up to carry them, your room settings and postcards across devices
- Movable timer with three layouts (card, minimal, bar)
- Installable and fully offline-capable (PWA), about 100 kB to open — loads instantly
- Free, no ads — ever. No account required
What does “hokkori” mean?
Hokkori (ほっこり) is a Japanese word for the feeling of gentle warmth inside — like wrapping your hands around a hot mug. That is the feeling this app is built around.
Questions people ask
What is Hokkori?
Hokkori is a free cozy pomodoro timer that lives in a warm, hand-drawn pixel-art room. You set a focus session, the room responds — day turns to night, rain falls while you work — and you mix your own ambient soundscape from lofi music, rain, fire, and more. There are no ads, and no account is required.
Is Hokkori free?
Yes. Everything you see in Hokkori today is free, with no ads — ever. If you enjoy it, you can support development with an optional donation.
Does Hokkori work offline?
Yes. Hokkori is an installable web app (PWA). After your first visit it works fully offline — the timer, the room, and the ambient sounds all run locally in your browser.
Can the window show my city's real weather?
Yes. Pick any city in the world (or share your location — it's optional) and the room's window shows that city's live weather: rain, snow, fog, storms, wind swaying the trees, and day turning to night on that city's real sun. Six cities — Bangkok, Tokyo, London, Reykjavík, New York, and Sydney — get hand-drawn landmark views, and every other city gets a view matched to its climate. Seasons bring sakura petals, fireflies, falling leaves, and even aurora on clear far-north winter nights.
What does "hokkori" mean?
Hokkori (ほっこり) is a Japanese word for the feeling of gentle warmth inside — like wrapping your hands around a hot mug. It is the feeling the app is designed to give you every time you sit down to focus.
Do I need an account to use Hokkori?
No account is required. Your tasks, stats, and settings live in your own browser, and you can export your data anytime. Your focus-session times are also backed up under a random anonymous ID; task text stays in your browser unless you add an email, which carries your stats and streak, tasks, room settings, postcards and milestones to every device you sign in on.
Guides
- The Pomodoro Technique, explained simply
- The Flowtime Technique: how it differs from Pomodoro
- How long should a pomodoro break be?
- Does lofi music actually help you focus?
- The Pomodoro Technique with ADHD
- How Hokkori fits a rain, fire and lo-fi mixer into about 100 kB
- The best cozy pomodoro timers (honest guide)
- Hokkori vs Pomofocus
- Hokkori vs LifeAt
- About Hokkori
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