# Tally - Screen Time for Mac

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.

- URL: https://swiftfox.studio/apps/tally
- Price: Pay what you want (suggested $3.99)
- Category: productivity (Time Tracker)
- Platform: macOS 14.0 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel
- Version: 1.0.7
- Publisher: Swiftfox Studio (https://swiftfox.studio)

## 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, and the whole thing grouped into categories.

### How it works

1. Install it and answer nothing - Tally records the frontmost app, and never counts time you spend away.
2. Grant Accessibility to see the window or document you were in - and, for Firefox, which site was open.
3. Grant Automation for your browser to group time by website instead of under "Google Chrome".
4. Read it in the window, the menu bar or a desktop widget - and cap any row with a daily limit.

## Features

- See where your day went, app by app and site by site
- Works with no permissions - each one just adds detail
- Day, week and month views with a readable timeline
- Groups time into categories you fix with one click
- Idle time, sleep and screen lock are never counted
- Daily limits that tell you when they fill, never block
- Today's total in the menu bar, if you want it there
- A desktop widget with today's numbers at a glance
- Nothing leaves your Mac: no account, no server, no sync

## When to use it

### macOS has no Screen Time worth reading

Apple's own Screen Time is buried in System Settings, has no timeline, and only breaks down websites for Safari. If you use Chrome it says "Google Chrome, 5 hours" and stops there.

### You do not want another subscription

The serious Mac time trackers are all monthly, and all send your activity to a server. Tally is pay what you want, once, and never opens a network connection.

### Most of your day is inside a browser

With Automation granted, time is grouped by site rather than piling up under the browser - and Firefox needs no Automation grant at all, only Accessibility.

### You want numbers you can trust

Idle time, sleep and the lock screen are subtracted, alt-tab noise under three seconds is discarded, and a segment that runs impossibly long is cut rather than believed.

### You want a ceiling, not just a report

A report tells you where the day went once it has gone. A daily limit on a site, an app, a category or the whole day says something while there is still time to decide - once, when it fills, and never by closing anything.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is this just macOS Screen Time?

No. macOS gives third-party apps no Screen Time API at all, so Tally measures usage itself - and unlike Screen Time it shows a timeline, the window or document you were in, and a website breakdown for every browser rather than only Safari. It also has the one thing people open Screen Time for - a daily limit - except that Tally's tells you and never blocks.

### Where does the data go?

Nowhere. Everything is stored on your Mac, there is no account and no sync, window titles and full addresses are never uploaded, and only the domain of a page is kept. You can delete all of it from Settings in one click.

### Do I have to grant permissions?

No. With nothing granted Tally still records per-app time. Accessibility adds the window or document you were in; Automation lets it group browser time by website. Firefox needs only Accessibility.

### Can Tally stop me using an app?

No, and it never will. A limit produces one notification when it fills and a bar in a list - nothing is closed, hidden or delayed. If stopping is the problem rather than seeing, that is a blocker's job, and NoMore is the app in this suite that does it.

### Is there a desktop widget?

Yes, in two sizes. The small card carries today's total and what most of it was; the medium one adds the apps it went to and the seven days behind today. Clicking either opens the full report.

### How much does Tally cost?

It is pay what you want with a suggested price of $3.99, and that genuinely includes zero. Whatever you pay, the app is yours with future updates.