Log your deep work, share it with friends, and keep the streak alive.
You already run pomodoros and keep a task list. But the moment you actually sit down is unwitnessed. Effort goes unseen, streaks break with no cost, and motivation runs entirely on willpower.
Forest, Session, Pomofocus are great at counting minutes, but there's no one on the other side. Zero accountability.
"Study with me" videos and co-working Discords have real social pull, but nothing gets logged, kept, or celebrated.
Manual accountability ("I'll text you when I start") is high friction and collapses within a week. Every time.
Strava proved that logging plus a feed plus kudos beats better tracking. Focus has never had an equivalent. Now it does.
Start a pomodoro with your own work/break cadence and an optional task list. This is the activity you log.
Finished sessions post to your followers and groups: duration, tasks done, and your current streak, at a glance.
Recognize the people who showed up. A tap of real recognition, not pixels, not a virtual tree, pulls them back tomorrow.
Daily streaks and weekly focus hours give returning a visible payoff. Your effort finally compounds where people can see it.
Who focused, for how long, tasks knocked out, and their streak. Every card reads in a second.
Lightweight to-dos you check off inside a session become part of the logged activity. No due dates, no projects, just proof of work.
Post to followers, a single group, or keep it private. Set per session, with safe defaults. Broadcasting is always opt-in.
Everyone optimizes the timer. We optimize the loop. The activity graph plus the live social pull: the only app doing both.
Emberly is a Pomodoro timer and focus tracker with a social feed. Run a classic work–break session, attach the tasks you want to finish, and when the timer ends your session is logged, visible to the friends and groups you choose. It's the accountability of studying with friends, without scheduling a call.
Run work and break intervals like any Pomodoro app, then your finished session posts to a feed where friends give kudos for showing up.
Join groups and study events so you're never focusing alone. Accountability that sticks: see who's showing up today, and let them see you.
Every deep work session counts toward streaks and weekly stats, a training log for your attention, the way runners keep one for miles.
No friends on the app yet? Start a group, share the invite link, and your feed is alive from your very first session. Groups are how study pods, writing circles and side-project crews keep each other honest.
Practical write-ups on shared focus: what works, what quietly falls apart after two weeks, and how to set up something that lasts.
Four ways to run focus sessions together — same room, video, shared timer, or logged afterwards — and which one survives past week two.
Read the guide →Why study pacts die in a fortnight, the four things real accountability needs, and how to set up a pod that makes it to the end of term.
Read the guide →Working alongside someone makes starting easier. Here's the difference between live and asynchronous body doubling, and how to set either up.
Read the guide →Focus apps compared by the mechanism each one uses — gamified stakes, blocking, live co-working, or social logging — so you can pick on substance.
Read the comparison →Install the beta, run a session today, and bring the two or three people whose opinion actually moves you.
