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Little Reef

Grow a small seabed with focus time. Each completed focus session makes the seaweed grow a little taller, and now and then a fish, shrimp, or crab comes to visit. This is a quiet desktop focus timer with an aquarium, a visitor field guide, and 20 background sounds.

Download

Requires macOS 12 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon. Download the latest little-reef-<version>-macos-arm64.dmg from Releases, open it, and drag β€œLittle Reef” into Applications.

Windows and Linux installers are not available yet. You can build from source instead.

Features

  • Default focus is 25 minutes and break is 5 minutes. You can change these in settings, and new durations take effect from the next session.
  • Start, pause, resume, and end early. The task name is optional. Press Space to start or pause.
  • Each completed session makes the seabed grow a little. The seaweed gradually gets taller, and one more plant appears every three sessions. Once the seabed is full, the count stops increasing so the scene does not get crowded.
  • The first session always brings a clownfish. After each later session, there is a…