Tally | Screen Time for Mac
A menu-bar time tracker for macOS that shows where your day actually went - and keeps every bit of it local.
Tally is a native macOS menu-bar app that measures which apps and websites your time goes to, subtracts idle time and sleep, and keeps every record on your own Mac.
Where did your day go?
Tally sits in your menu bar and quietly measures which apps and websites your time actually goes to. At the end of the day you get the shape of it: a timeline you can read, the apps ranked, the sites ranked, the whole thing grouped into categories, and how much of it was focus.
Features
- See where your day went, app by app and site by site
- Works with no permissions - each one just adds detail
- Day, week, month and year views, or any range you pick
- Categories you label focus, neutral or distracting
- Idle, sleep and lock never count; label your breaks
- Goals, plus daily or weekly limits that never block
- A widget with a pause button, plus Shortcuts and Siri
- Your log stays on your Mac; export CSV or JSON any time
How it works
- Install it and answer nothing - Tally records the frontmost app, and never counts time you spend away.
- Grant Accessibility to see the window or document you were in - and, for Firefox, which site was open.
- Grant Automation for your browser to group time by website instead of under "Google Chrome".
- Read it in the window, the menu bar or a desktop widget - and give any row a goal or a daily or weekly limit.
Buying and licensing
Yes. Download the app and it runs in full for 30 days - no key, no card, no email. Nothing is held back during the trial.
No. You pay once and the license is yours for good, on up to 3 Macs. There is no renewal and no in-app purchase. The studio also sells an optional subscription that includes this app, if you would rather have every app instead.
Buy from the store and the key arrives by email right after checkout. Paste it into the app once and it stays activated.
The app locks until you enter a key. Nothing is deleted - your data stays on your Mac and comes straight back the moment you activate.
Yes, and thank you. Every app page has a Buy me a coffee button - one-off, any amount. It is not a purchase: no license is issued and nothing is unlocked, so every app works exactly the same whether you tip or not.
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