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TimTime · Mac menu bar time tracker

A time tracker for people who forget to start the timer

Type what you're working on and it starts. Type the next thing and it switches. Walk away and it stops, at the moment you left. It lives in your menu bar.

Buy TimTime for €9

One-time purchase · macOS 14+ · signed & notarized

TimTime open under the macOS menu bar: a live timer, a focus score, a color-coded timeline of the day, and today's tasks

Why it exists

Most time trackers fail in the same two places

You forget to start the timer. Then you forget to stop it. By Friday the numbers are made up.

Nothing to start

Type a task and it's tracking. That's the whole interface.

Nothing to stop

Walk away for 5 minutes and it stops. The end time is when you left, not when you came back.

A real picture of the week

Every day is a strip. Colors show the kind of work. Totals add up by color.

What it does

Tracking that gets out of your way

Six things, all in the menu bar. No app to open and no account to make.

Type to switch

Type a task and press Return. The old one closes and the new one starts. There is no stop button.

Knows when you leave

After 5 minutes with no keyboard or mouse, it stops and backdates to your last activity. On a call? A live mic keeps it going.

Colors that add up

Give your tasks colors like Deep work, Meetings, Admin. Every chart and total rolls up by color. Shift-click to color or merge many at once.

Breaks that stay quiet

A light check-in at 15 and 30 minutes. A break at 45. Not tracking? A small Break pill sits under the menu bar, so you always know the clock is off.

Day, week, month

Today's total sits in the menu bar. Open it for a 24 hour strip, a focus score, and per-task totals. Zoom out to the week or the month.

It never reads what you type

To know you left, it asks macOS how long since your last input. Not which key. Not your screen. Your data is a plain file on your Mac. No account, no cloud.

See your time

Where the week actually went

These screens use made-up data. Yours will be less tidy.

TimTime day view with two tasks selected and a row of color swatches to recolor or merge them
Shift-click tasks to color or merge them.
TimTime week view with a color-coded 24 hour strip for each day and totals by color
This week. Hover a task to light it up.
TimTime month view with a strip for every day of October and a total for each color
The whole month, with percentages by color.
TimTime check-in under the menu bar asking "Are you still working on?" with a Take a break button
A quiet check-in. Ignore it and nothing breaks.
TimTime day view with a large break card showing one hour five minutes since the last break
65 minutes without a break. The button grows.
A small Break pill under the macOS menu bar while nothing is being tracked
Not tracking? The Break pill sits under the menu bar.

It is one person on one Mac

TimTime is small on purpose. It is probably not for you if:

  • You need invoices or client reports.
  • You want a shared dashboard for a team.
  • You want an iPhone app. It is Mac only.

Questions

One-time · no subscription

€9

Pay once. Yours forever, with free updates.

  • Signed & notarized DMG
  • Auto-updates via Sparkle
  • All future 1.x updates
  • macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
Buy TimTime for €9

Help me make it better

TimTime is new. I use it every day and I'm still changing it. If something is missing or annoying, tell me.

tim@ai-ascend.com