Every App on My Mac, and Which Ones I Actually Open
Not a list of forty apps. The real contents of a working developer Mac, including the three time trackers installed at once and what that says about the category.
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Tools & comparisons
Honest comparisons of time trackers and Mac apps, including the ones that are not us.
Mac Window Management in 2026: Rectangle, Raycast, and What macOS Now Does Itself
macOS gained real window tiling, which changed what you need. What the built-in version covers, when a third-party tool still earns its place, and which one.
The Best MacBook Notch Apps in 2026 (Boring Notch, MewNotch and More)
Apple gave the MacBook a notch and no way to use it. A handful of open-source apps turned it into a Dynamic Island. Here is what each one does, and which to install.
Toggl Alternatives for People Who Forget to Start the Timer
Toggl is the best manual time tracker there is. That is the problem. Here is what to use if the timer is the part that keeps failing.
Free Time Tracking Apps With No Subscription (2026)
Which trackers are genuinely free, which are free tiers designed to run out, and what the free ones cannot do. Written by a company that charges $6 a month.
Free and Open-Source Time Trackers in 2026 (And When They Are Not Enough)
ActivityWatch, Super Productivity, Timewarrior and friends: what you get for nothing, what the real cost is, and the one thing none of them do.
Cronus vs Timing: Which Mac Time Tracker Should You Use in 2026?
Timing is the best-established automatic tracker on the Mac. It also asks you to describe your work as keyword rules. Here is the honest comparison.
Cronus vs Timely: Which Should You Use in 2026?
Timely drafts timesheets you approve. Cronus just tells you where your time went. One of those is a billing tool and one is not, and picking wrong is why people are unhappy with both.
Cronus vs Rize: Which AI Time Tracker Should You Use in 2026?
A head-to-head on categorization, pricing, privacy and complexity. Rize is the bigger product. That is the problem and, for some people, the point.
Cronus vs RescueTime: Which Should You Use in 2026?
RescueTime has eighteen years of history and a dashboard that rarely tells you what to change. Cronus has neither the history nor the dashboard. Here is the honest comparison.
Best Timing App Alternatives in 2026
Timing is a very good Mac tracker with one structural cost: you describe your work as keyword rules and maintain them forever. Here is where to go if that is the part you want gone.
Best Timely Alternatives in 2026
Timely is excellent if you bill clients and frustrating if you do not. Here are the best alternatives in 2026, depending on which of those two people you are.
Best RescueTime Alternatives, Free and Paid in 2026
RescueTime still collects good data and still struggles to tell you what to do with it. Here are the best alternatives in 2026, ranked by what you actually need.
The Best Automatic Time Tracking Apps for Mac in 2026
Every Mac time tracker that runs without you starting a timer, what each one costs, what it does with macOS permissions, and which to pick.
11 Best AI Time Tracking Tools in 2026
An honest comparison of the AI time tracking tools worth knowing in 2026, with current pricing: Cronus, Rize, RescueTime, Timing, Timely, Memtime, Early, ManicTime, ActivityWatch, Toggl and Motion.
Coast App Review: Is Recording Your Screen Every 2 Seconds Actually Useful?
Coast records everything you see, locally, and lets your AI agent search it. We installed it. Here is what it is genuinely good at, where the pitch breaks down, and why recall is a different problem from knowing where your time went.
Best Rize.io Alternatives in 2026, Including the Free Ones
Rize now runs four paid tiers metered by AI credits, from $12.99 to $49.99 a month. Every alternative worth switching to, priced side by side, including the free and open-source one, and what you give up to pay nothing.