bubbleD
A Pomodoro timer with a timesheet attached.
Friday should not be a memory test.
bubbleD is a focus timer that keeps the timesheet for you. You pick a project and start a bubble; when it pops, the time is already written down. Nothing to log twice, nothing to reconstruct at the end of the week, and nothing that leaves your iPhone.
Starting is two taps
Pick a project, start the bubble. Say what you are working on if you feel like it; most of the time you will not, and that is fine.
Twenty-five minutes is the default because it is usually right. There is no account to make, nothing to sign in to, and no setup to get through before your first session.
For the thought that arrives at minute four
You remember the dentist. You remember the email you owe someone. Normally that is the end of the session: you go and deal with it, or you spend the rest of the time trying not to think about it.
Here you drop it in and carry on. One tap, nothing to decide. That is what the D is for.
It is still there when you finish
Parked thoughts wait for the bubble to pop. Then you decide: do it, keep it for later, or admit you were never going to and throw it away.
Nothing reminds you in the meantime. No counter climbs at you, and no notification turns up to say that you are behind.
The part you would otherwise do on Friday
Every bubble you finish is already filed against its project, at the time you did it. A day adds up in blocks, one to the quarter hour, so a week of work looks like a week of work instead of a number you had to guess at.
Anything wrong, edit it. Anything you did away from the timer, add it. You are correcting a record rather than writing one from memory.
What it costs
Free, and free is a real version: unlimited sessions, three projects, and the last seven days of your timesheet. Pro is for people who bill the hours — your whole history, as many projects as you have, CSV out, and a write-up of the week your iPhone composes by itself. Monthly or yearly, with the first seven days free on the yearly plan.
Where your data is
bubbleD does not collect your data. It is on your iPhone and nowhere else. No account, no server, no analytics, and no network requests of its own.
That cuts both ways, so it is worth saying plainly: there is no backup and nothing to restore from. Delete the app and the data goes with it. Export a CSV first if that would matter to you.
Get it
bubbleD on the App Store — iPhone, iOS 26 or later.