Qbserve is an automatic private time tracker that helps improve your productivity. It gives you instant answers about the way you spend your time by intelligently observing active apps. All the tracked information is stored privately on your machine.
Qbserve knows productivity rates for thousands of sites and apps and has a unique ability to differentiate between chats in Skype, Slack, and Telegram, YouTube videos, and subreddits. You can also set alerts to notify you when you are reaching your goals or spending too much time on distractions.
automatic recognition of apps and popular websites opened in Chrome, Safari, and Opera browsers
separate productivity of Slack teams, chats in Skype, Telegram; YouTube videos, Reddit.com subreddits; different windows inside one application
show application windows as standalone activities
view all logged windows for each application record
ignore any application, website, window, etc.
enable dynamic dock icon and/or menu bar item status
search activities with filters by name, productivity, category, application or time period
edit uncategorized activities that weren’t recognized by Qbserve
set idle time limit and turn it off for some categories like “Videos”
view detailed chart with productivity meters for any period within a year
get feedback on how productivity changes compared to previous days, weeks, months
pause and resume tracking
track only selected weekdays or time periods
shift the day starting time in case you are a night owl
Version 1.87:
New icon for Big Sur! (you can switch back to the old one in the Preferences)
Added AppleScript commands: pause, resume, getProductiveTime, getNeutralTime, getDistractingTime
Added display of the duration of selected rows in the Journal
Fixed interface glitches on Big Sur
Fixed clipped text in the date picker
Fixed fullscreen video tracking in Chrome once again
Fixed duplication of Slack channel names containing asterisk
Fixed incorrect encoding for spaces and non-ASCII symbols in document paths used by rules
Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later 64-bit
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