JustLockin

A minimalist pomodoro app on macOS menu bar, designed to help users focus with a single click.

Features • Installation • Contributing • License

Features

• Exclusive Menu Bar Presence: Lives only in your menu bar to keep your Dock and screen clutter-free.
• Simple Control: A single left click is all you need to start, pause, or end a session and a right click to open menu.
• Overflow Mode: Continue your deep work with an automatic count-up timer when your focus session ends.
• Customizable Workflow: Adjust the duration for focus, short, and long breaks, with ability to control transitions between sessions (backward and forward).
• Smart Notifications: Receive timely alerts with sound to signal session changes, with full control over permissions.

Installation

Install via Homebrew to get autoupdates (Preferred)

brew install --cask spaceman1412/tap/justlockin

You can also install manually:

1. Download the latest available zip from releases page
2. Unpack zip
3. Put unpacked JustLockin.app into /Applications folder

If you see this message

"JustLockin.app" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

Option 1 to resolve the problem

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/JustLockin.app

Option 2 to resolve the problem

1. navigate in Finder to /Applications/JustLockin.app
2. Right mouse click
3. Open it

Note

By using JustLockin, you acknowledge that it's not notarized.

Notarization is a "security" feature by Apple. You send binaries to Apple, and they either approve them or not. In reality, notarization is about building binaries the way Apple likes it.

I don't have anything against notarization as a concept. I specifically don't like the way Apple does notarization. I don't have time to deal with Apple.

Homebrew installation script is configured to automatically delete com.apple.quarantine attribute, that's why the app should work out of the box, without any warnings that "Apple cannot check JustLockin for malicious software"

Contributing

Feel free to share, open issues and contribute to this project! ❤️

License

JustLockin is open source software licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.