A focus timer with a bear in it.

Pick 25, 50 or 75 minutes and start. Nib sits there while you work. And if you’d rather not be alone, there are rooms with other people already in them.

Start a session See how it works

Free, and it runs in a browser. Sign in with Google, Discord, Slack, or just an email.

How a session goes

1Say what you’re on

Type what you’re working on. Nib reads it and says one thing back. Whatever you wrote down as your next step last time is already sitting in the box.

2Start, and the screen goes quiet

The rest of it folds away. You get a ring and a Pause. Switch tabs on a laptop and the timer stops itself, and quietly notes that you wandered off.

3Hear it straight at the end

One plain line about how it actually went, a sentence from Nib, and somewhere to write what’s next. No confetti.

WorkingReadingBreak

He mostly just sits there.

Nib’s hand-drawn, and he’s on screen the whole session. He changes pose as it goes: at the laptop, glasses on to read, flat out asleep on a break.

Twice every twenty minutes at most, he writes a short line, and then it clears itself. He won’t start a conversation with you.

Turn voice on and you can talk to him out loud. He talks back, and he can work the timer for you: give me fifty minutes on the essay add ten end it here

How often

Two lines every twenty minutes at most. Your device checks before he even gets to ask.

Voice

Off until you turn it on. What you say gets transcribed so he can answer, then it’s dropped.

His notebook

He asks before writing anything down. It’s all listed on your profile and you can delete any of it.

Or sit with other people.

The lobby shows you which rooms have someone in them, and who. Walk into any public one. Nobody has to let you in.

Inside there’s who’s there, how long they’ve got left, a chat, and a 25 minute timer. Silent by default. Make a voice room instead and up to six people can actually talk.

Making your own takes one step. Public, or private with a six character code you send to one person.

The counts are real, so an empty room says it’s empty. You can report a message or block someone, and blocked people stay gone.

There’s a Windows app, if you want one.

Start a session and go work somewhere else. Nook shrinks to a small panel in the corner with Nib and your time left, but only once you’ve actually switched away.

It doesn’t treat switching windows as leaving. If Nib has something to say while you’re in another app, it comes through as an ordinary Windows notification.

Download for Windows

Windows only so far. Everything above works in a browser without it.

Plain answers

Does it cost anything?

No. There’s no card field anywhere in it.

Do I have to install anything?

No, it runs in a browser. On a phone you can add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.

Is there an iPhone or Android app?

Not yet. For now the phone browser is the way in.

What can other people see?

Your name, and how long you’ve got left. Nobody hears you unless you join a voice room on purpose, and there’s no camera in Nook at all.

What happens to what I tell Nib?

It’s transcribed so he can answer, then dropped. He only keeps notes if you say yes, and you can delete them from your profile. Your account too.