You'll Actually Know When Your Session Ends Now

This one came from a user suggestion. Shoutout to Amine for flagging something obvious that we’d been overlooking.

When your focus session timer hit zero, the app would just quietly redirect you to the completion screen. If you were looking at the tab, great. But if you’d switched to another app or browser tab to actually do the thing you were focusing on, you had no idea your session had finished. You’d come back minutes later to find the completion page sitting there, waiting.

That’s fixed now.

A chime when time’s up

When your timer reaches zero, a short bell chime plays through your speakers. It’s gentle enough that it won’t startle you out of whatever you’re doing, but clear enough that you’ll register it. Three layered tones, quick fade, done in about a second.

If you don’t want the sound, you can turn it off in Settings > Notifications > Session completion sound. It’s on by default.

No audio files were harmed in the making of this feature. The chime is generated entirely in the browser using the Web Audio API, so there’s nothing extra to download.

Flashing tab title

If you’re in a different tab when your session ends, the browser tab title will alternate between your normal timer title and “Session Complete!” until you switch back. Once you return to the BuckleTime tab, it stops flashing and takes you to your completion screen.

This one works without any permissions or setup. If your session finishes while you’re in another tab, you’ll see it pulsing in your tab bar.

A little extra polish on the completion screen

While we were at it, we added a subtle sparkle effect around the points total on the completion page. Nothing flashy (okay, a little flashy), just some amber particles that float up and fade out. It makes the “+42 FP” moment feel a tiny bit more earned.

Thanks again to Amine for the nudge. If something about the app bugs you or feels like it’s missing, let us know. The best features are the ones someone actually asked for.