Frequently Asked Questions

Pomogochi is a cozy desktop companion & Pomodoro focus browser extension. It lives on your browser screen to help you build focus habits, clear mental clutter with Two-Beat Thinking™, recharge with 16 healing ASMR scenes, decorate your room, and collect cute buddies along your productivity journey.

Yes! Core features including the smart Pomodoro timer, floating desktop buddies, Two-Beat Thinking™ framework, healing ASMR ambient sounds, and basic tools are 100% free forever. Room decor items and new buddies can be unlocked using seeds and coins earned naturally during your focus sessions.

Pomogochi supports all major Chromium-based web browsers, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera.

You can customize focus and rest intervals (e.g. 25 minutes of work / 5 minutes of rest). During focus sessions, your floating desktop buddy stays right by your side with interactive jelly physics and offers encouraging dialogue tailored to your activity.

Yes! Pomogochi offers 16 immersive ASMR healing scenes and ambient soundscapes (cozy fireplace, rain on leaves, cafe, deep forest, ocean waves, theta waves) to help you recharge during break periods.

Yes! Thanks to background service worker synchronization, your focus timer, XP gains, and statistics continue seamlessly even if you close the extension popup or switch browser tabs.

As you complete focus sessions, you earn Star Pieces and Coins. You can fuse star fragments into Golden Stars to unlock 20+ unique buddies, decorate your room canvas, and level up buddy affinity!

Yes! Furniture arrangements provide focus buffs (e.g. extra XP, bonus coin gain), and buddies feature 3 distinct dialogue personas—Cheerful (Warm & Supportive), Tsundere (Witty), and Strict Instructor (Disciplined).

At the end of each day, your buddy observes your completed focus sessions, Two-Beat Thinking insights, and habits to write a cozy daily observation diary entry.

Two-Beat Thinking™ is Pomogochi's proprietary 6-step practical thinking pipeline. Beat 1 lets you quickly dump raw thoughts and brain clutter, while Beat 2 classifies them using 6 structural frame matrices (e.g. Eisenhower, Now/Next/Later, MoSCoW, Control) to extract concrete action items.

Not at all. The floating buddy widget features interactive spring elasticity (Jelly Physics) and click-through transparency options. You can drag your buddy anywhere on screen, minimize it, or disable it on specific domains in the settings.

Yes! Because Pomogochi is built with a 100% Local-First Architecture, all features including timers, Two-Beat Thinking™, room decorator, and buddy interactions work offline without an active internet connection.

Your privacy is our top priority. All your notes, timer statistics, and room collection data remain strictly stored inside your local browser. We do not transmit or sell your browsing history to external servers.

Currently, Pomogochi operates 100% locally inside your browser to ensure complete privacy and data control. Cross-device account sync is not supported at this time, but cloud account sync is planned for a future update! All your data is safely preserved in your local browser storage.