Deep work is better when someone else is in the room.

FocusTribe is a shared focus workspace for two people — you and one accountability partner. You each run your own Pomodoro timer on a shared task board, with a shared break room, ambient sounds, and a daily reflection journal. There is no video and no scheduling.

There is a free plan and there is Pro. Free is the whole shared workspace for you and one partner — both Pomodoro timers, the break room, the task board, the streaks — with nothing metered and no card, and it keeps 14 days of reflection and insight history. Pro is $5 a month or $40 a year, lifts the history cutoff entirely, and adds a formatted export. One subscription covers both people in the workspace. Separately from all of that, the timers and ambient sounds on this site are free and need no account at all.

A solo timer runs in isolation, so nobody notices when you skip a session. FocusTribe puts your timer on a board one other person can see — they know what you planned, what you finished, and whether you are focusing right now. The daily reflection journal then shows you what actually derails you, week over week. If you are weighing this against Focusmate or Flow Club, we keep an honest comparison.

Two. A workspace is you plus one accountability partner, and that is a deliberate design choice rather than a free-plan limit — it is enforced in the database rules, not by a paywall. If you need three or more people in one space, FocusTribe is not the right tool today; see what we would use instead.

Body doubling is working alongside someone so the task actually gets started, and that is exactly what this is for. Most virtual coworking puts you on a video call with a stranger at a booked time. FocusTribe is asynchronous and has no video: you pick one person you already know, and you each see what the other planned and whether they are focusing right now. Nothing to schedule and nobody to be on camera for.

Yes. The break room, the Pomodoro timer, the study timer, the seven ambient sounds and the sound mixer are free and need no account at all — all of them here. The shared board is the part that needs a second person, and you can add them whenever you find them.

Yes — that is one of the main reasons to choose it. FocusTribe is asynchronous: there is no scheduled session and no video call to both be awake for. You see what your partner planned and completed whenever you next open the board.

Rain, forest, coffee shop, fireplace, ocean, thunderstorm, and white noise — all seven are free to play without an account, and you can layer them in the mixer.

Every workspace has an 8-character invite code and a matching link. Send either one. They sign in with Google or an emailed code and land straight in the workspace. One partner per workspace.

Tasks completed, completion rate, streaks, category breakdown, and planned focus time per day. Worth being precise: focus time is calculated from the duration you set on each task, not from measured elapsed time. Your reflection entries are also clustered so recurring distractions surface over weeks.

FocusTribe records task and session metadata — never your screen, your keystrokes, or the content of your work. Your daily reflections go further: they are readable only by you, and the database security rules stop even your workspace partner from opening them.