RescueTime
RescueTime provides a productivity suite that automatically tracks time spent across apps, websites, and documents, helping individuals and teams understand and improve their work habits. The platform includes Focus features for setting goals, blocking distractions, and receiving real-time alerts, plus Timesheets for automated project tracking and client-ready reporting. RescueTime runs in the background on computers, collecting window titles to build detailed timelines without manual timers or spreadsheets.
- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Professionals and teams often lose significant time to digital distractions and lack accurate visibility into how their work hours are actually spent. Manual time tracking methods are tedious and unreliable, while scattered tools fail to connect daily focus habits with project-level reporting and billing needs.
Solution
RescueTime delivers a productivity suite that automatically captures time spent across apps, websites, and documents, eliminating the need for manual timers or spreadsheets. The Focus component helps individuals set goals, receive smart alerts, and block distracting sites during Focus Sessions, while detailed reports reveal personal productivity patterns over weeks, months, or years. The Timesheets add-on extends this tracking to projects, clients, and tasks, generating precise timesheets and reports for billing and payroll. Team plans provide aggregated productivity trends, key tool usage, and daily patterns, enabling managers to optimize workloads and schedules based on real data.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individual professionals, freelancers, and teams in knowledge-work industries who need to improve personal focus, understand productivity patterns, and automate time tracking for client billing or internal reporting.
Features
- Automatic background time tracking across apps, websites, and documents by collecting window titles, without recording keystrokes or content
- Focus Sessions that block distracting apps and websites, silence notifications, and integrate focus music from Spotify or YouTube
- Goals and real-time alerts that notify users when they drift from productive activities, with customizable thresholds
- Offline activity logging for meetings, calls, and brainstorming sessions to capture a complete workday picture
- Team productivity reports showing trends across timeframes, categories, and tools, plus daily patterns to identify peak focus hours
- Timesheet autocompletion hints that learn how to assign time to projects based on file names, apps, and websites
- Role-based permissions for teams, allowing administrators and managers to control access to projects, billable rates, and reports
- Calendar integration and project targets to track progress against hourly goals and prevent overruns