Study with me Pomodoro timer

Study with me videos are long recordings of someone studying at their desk, often with a Pomodoro timer in the corner. You press play, open your own books, and work while they work. The timer gives the session a shape, and the person on screen makes it feel less lonely.

The timer above is that shape without the video: the same 50/10 and 25/5 splits, on a loop, so you can study at your own desk in silence or with your own sound.

50/10 or 25/5: which split to use

25/5 is the classic Pomodoro. Twenty five minutes is short enough to start on a bad day, and five minutes is enough to stand up and drink water. Use it for subjects you avoid, for revision with a lot of switching, and for your first two weeks.

50/10 is the split you see in a lot of long study with me sessions. Fifty minutes is enough to work through a problem set or a full chapter without stopping halfway, and ten minutes lets you actually leave the desk. Move to it once 25/5 feels choppy, and use it for deep subjects like math, physics or long reading. If fifty is still too short, the 52/17 timer runs a longer split.

After four blocks, take a longer break. Four rounds of 50/10 is four hours. Pause the timer and take 20 to 30 minutes away from the screen before the next set. The Pomodoro timer does the long break for you, every fourth block, if you set it to 50 and 10 with the gear icon.

Study with me, no music

This timer plays no music. It has two short chimes, rising when a break starts and falling when study starts, so you can tell them apart without looking. The bell icon mutes them if you want complete silence.

Silence suits reading and memorizing, because songs with lyrics compete with the words you are trying to take in. If total silence feels empty, steady sound without melody is the middle path: rain, white noise or brown noise play free in another tab.

How to run a study with me session

1. 1Clear the desk and pick one subject. One subject per block. Switching costs the first minutes of every block.
2. 2Write down what this block is for. “Chapter 6, questions 1 to 20” rather than “math”. You will know at the chime whether it got done.
3. 3Start the timer and put the phone out of reach. Another room is best. Face down on the desk is not out of reach.
4. 4On the break, leave the desk. Water, a stretch, a window. Not a feed: it spends the attention the break is meant to give back.
5. 5Note what you finished. One line after each block. By the end of the day you have a record instead of a feeling.

More on spending the ten minutes well in what to do on a Pomodoro break.

Make it study with me, for real

A study with me video cannot see you. You can pause it, skip a block, and nobody knows. FocusTribe is the version with a real person on the other side: you and one friend each run your own timer, 50/10, 25/5 or anything from 5 to 180 minutes, and each of you can see when the other is studying. They notice when you start. You notice when they do.

There is no camera and no call, and nothing to schedule. The free plan covers both of you, and new accounts start with 30 days of Pro. Read how it works for studying with friends online.