What it is
Deepnous — a minimalist deep work timer.
Name the thing you're working on, set a duration, start the clock. There is no account, no ads, no cookie banner, and nothing to dismiss before the timer works. Open it on a second monitor or prop your phone against the keyboard and leave it there.
The countdown runs in a web worker against an absolute end time, so backgrounding the tab doesn't slow it down. A 45-minute session is 45 minutes.
Made for deep work
One task per clock.
01
Naming the task is the commitment
Typing "Rewrite the onboarding email" makes the next 45 minutes about one thing. The label sits above the clock the whole session, so drifting means reading what you promised.
02
Any duration, not a preset menu
Tap the time and type. 25 minutes, 52 minutes, 3 hours — the timer doesn't have an opinion about how long your work should take. Presets are there for speed, not as the only door.
03
Nothing moves while you work
One mark of the bar dims each minute. No spinners, no gradients breathing in the background, no notification badges. The only motion on the page is time actually passing.
04
One clock leads, up to three wait
One clock leads — large, centred, the thing you are actually doing. The others wait underneath as a slim strip: a build, a laundry cycle, a call you have to leave for. Click any of them to bring it to the front, or press its number. Each clock carries a colour and a number so you always know which is which; the shape of its bar tells you what it is doing.
Workspaces
A set of clocks per project.
Keep up to five workspaces in the rail — one per project, client or context. Each holds its own timers, its own durations and its own session count, so switching context is one click rather than a re-setup. Five is the cap on purpose: nobody does deep work in ten contexts. Everything stays in your browser; there is still no account and nothing leaves the page.
Pomodoro
Use it as a Pomodoro timer.
Set 25 minutes, work until the chime, take five. The counter on each clock tells you how many you've finished; there are no streaks to protect and nothing to break. The Pomodoro timer page opens preset to 25 with a break waiting on the other side.
For longer stretches, the focus timer page starts at 90 minutes — one full ultradian cycle.
FAQ
Questions.
Is Deepnous free?
Yes. No account, no ads, no paid tier, nothing to install. Open the page and start the clock.
Does the timer keep running if I switch tabs?
It does. Every countdown lives in a web worker and measures against an absolute end time, so browser throttling of background tabs can't make it drift. Close the tab mid-session and reopen it later — the clock picks up exactly where the wall clock says it should be.
What happens when a session ends?
A gentle chime plays — pitched to that clock's colour, so you can tell which one finished without looking — and a browser notification fires if you allowed them. The screen stays on the finished session so it's obvious what happened even if you come back ten minutes later.
What does it store?
Your workspaces, their timers and today's session count — kept in your own browser, never sent anywhere. The count resets at midnight, so it's a read on today rather than a streak to protect. No account, and no history of what you worked on.