Every time tracker wants an account, a subscription and your data on someone else's server. I just wanted: click start, click stop, and a PDF at the end of the month. So I built my own.

>Live demo: https://winnicodes.github.io/pocketwatch/
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GitHub: https://github.com/winnicodes/pocketwatch

Platform: Docker (Linux, Windows, NAS, Raspberry Pi):

• One-click start/stop, live timer
• PDF and CSV export
• Fully self-hosted - no account, no cloud, no tracking

I was tired of overly priced Pomodoro apps that lock basic features behind subscription paywalls and end up distracting you more than helping you focus. So, I built FocusSpace—an open-source, AI-native focus app designed from the ground up to protect your deep work.

FocusSpace is built with a singular philosophy: Everything you need to get into flow, and absolutely nothing you don't. It pairs a distraction-free, beautifully minimalist interface with state-of-the-art AI orchestration—giving you complete ownership over your attention and your data.

comes with following features

• Agentic Task Control: Instead of manual tracking, you can let a Hermes agent—or your own custom local model—manage your boards, break down complex goals into subtasks, and hold you accountable.
• Built-in AI Co-Pilot: Just describe what you want to achieve in plain English, and the onboard AI automatically structures your sessions and schedules your workflow. (use your own llm api key)
• Distraction-Free Environment: Features living, code-generated wallpapers (like rain or starfields) alongside a single-tap Focus Mode and mini-player designed to stay out of your way.
• Integrated Audio Controls: Built-in Spotify integration lets you search playlists and control focus audio directly inside the app so you never break your flow.
• Deep Work Analytics: Keep track of your real focus time over days and months with clean heatmaps, session timelines, and streak counters.
• Open Source and Self-Hostable: You have total control over your data. Host it yourself locally, deploy your own instance, or use the free hosted web version.

try it out

• 💻 Live Web Version:focusspace.live
• 📦 GitHub Repository:github.com/EntangledQuantum/focusspace

I made a focus timer app where you grow a mathematical fractal the longer you focus.

I was inspired by Forest, but I wanted something simpler and less gamified, basically a focus timer that stays out of your way, with the fractal growing as a visual representation of the time you've spent focusing.

It also has Pomodoro timing, weekly focus stats you can share, insights into when you tend to focus the most, projects so you can keep track of what you're spending your focus time on, and ambient sound as some people find it useful to study.

It's called Fractime.

If you think you might like it, you can try it here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fractime.fractime

If the link doesn't work, just search Fractime on Google Play. The icon is a Pythagoras Tree.

I'd really appreciate any feedback :)

Yes, it was created with the help of dark matters of LLM. I can’t say it’s Vibe Coded, though. Vibe is something cheerful and… you know, vibing. But the process of developing DayDraft was far from vibing. I suffered, I locked myself in isolation, I spent a lot of hours learning a lot about creating an app, about life itself… and made such things that I’m afraid to mention here.

I created it to help my wife who has an hourly wage and needed something simple yet powerful to track time. And for myself, because I always forget things at the grocery store and got into trouble with my wife. And of course it wasn’t necessary, but I added some AI functions just to make some people angry.

A. Answer

- So what problem does it solve? A lot of planners and trackers already exist. Agree. Nothing special. But don’t judge a book, or in this case an app, by its cover.

- Picture it, you’re sitting in front of the screen, cursing a project you’re working on and thinking of quitting. But then you open DayDraft to check how much hours you wasted and see that your hours actually cost some money, print a report with all payment info and send to your employer. Done.

- After you spent some time observing DayDraft you realized that the tracker was working but you didn’t actually work. No problem. Adjust time manually before making a report, because you can see every session in detail.

- Don’t be too happy about adding extra hours to get money from your employer, because the report will show every change you made. Yes, you will build trust with your employer like it or not.

- What if you always forget to go do something important? You have Timeline Plan and Checklist plan.

- If you’re still here, it means something clicked inside, so let’s continue with part B.

B. Better

- So what’s better in my app than in hundreds of thousands of others? First of all, I just try to do the best that’s in my power.

- You can dictate or write your plan for the day or a checklist however you want. Even if you don’t know how to write or express your thoughts properly, the app will still understand you and build a coherent plan out of the mess.

- AI can also create a schedule in the Timeline Plan and suggest how to better build your day based on history.

- At its core this is of course a tracker, which works even after a phone reboot. Forgot to start the timer? Not a problem. Just fill it in manually, and your client will see it in the plan, and if you decided to cheat, that will be visible too.

- You can add notes and clearly point out what every second of your time went to, building a trusting relationship with whoever you work with.

- I can tell that this app even improved relationships with my wife, since I no longer text her endlessly about forgetting what to buy at the store, I just open the plan and follow it.

- Checklist Plan is flexible and can be split into categories, quickly mark things done or not.

- A small bonus, daily interesting facts and small quizzes for those as curious as I am.

- In Reports you can analyze your productivity and see the history of your working hours and how much of that desired money you earned.

- Not exactly a feature, but in Settings you can turn off any notifications, or fine tune them for Timeline Plan mode if needed.

C. Cost

Subscription:

Year $59.99

Month $9.99

Week $3.99

Not a hard paywall, though. Without paying, you can still track your time and build your plans, both Timeline and Checklist. What you don’t get is the AI functions, the payment details, and the reports.

If you think it’s too expensive or cheap, maybe you’re right. I just followed my heart ))

Links and contacts

App Store: CLICK HERE. I’M BEGGING YOU

Android: HERE YOU CAN CLICK, BUT IT’S OPTIONAL

Website: IF YOU’RE REALLY CURIOUS (my wife told me this website looks sleek, btw)

Privacy Policy and Terms: DK WHO READ IT

Name: Andrii Plashevskyi

Email: shapeinc25@gmail.com or fancier one support@daydraft.app

LinkedIn: DOOMED PLACE (that’s the service where I send hundreds of resumes and nobody hires me, so at least you know I’m a real person)

P.S

And thank you. Really. Thanks to everyone who reads this nonsense, who leaves a review, who finds a bug and tells me about it, who says something nice or something harsh. And thanks just because. It means more than you think when you’re building something alone.

Timegauge gives you time perspective on hour, day, month, year, and custom project.

Problem:
We often forget how fast time is moving, and lose perspective. For example: do you know 52% of 2026 has already passed, and 36% of July is gone?

TimGauge gives you perspective through a progress bar in the Mac menu bar.
In this update, I have tried to get duration in terms of flexible time. For example: you can track exact working hours in Day and set exact starting end end time in custom project, this was missing in previous version.

The app is a one-time purchase, 100% local, available on the app store and is notarized by Apple when downloaded from Website.

Comparision:
Progress bar is a known competition but they sell 5 years old version with limited features for $9.99

Pricing:
TimeGauge is available on Mac apps store:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/timegauge/id6778277708?mt=12

You can also download it from Web checkout at https://timegauge.minilabs.cc/

About Me:
I'm developer of the app, you can reach out to me through X and support email support@minilabs.cc

Imagine if you could view your entire digital history through recaps, eras, and nostalgic timelines. Thats what PC Recap does, it turns your PC into a shareable digital time capsule with milestones, events, and more.

Download at https://pcrecap.online

Disclosure: I’m the founder. ClockOut is a time clock, employee scheduler, and payroll-export workflow for small hourly teams.

The obvious feature was clocking in and out. The harder part was everything that goes wrong during a real week: someone forgets to clock out, moves to a second job mid-shift, requests a correction, works offline, swaps a shift, or changes a period after payroll has already started. I’ve tried to make those exception paths the center of the product.

What it currently includes:

- phone/PWA punches and a shared PIN kiosk

- GPS stamps and optional geofences

- job codes that can change during an active shift, plus hours-by-job reporting

- employee correction requests, manager review, and edit history

- recurring schedules, availability, open shifts, and swaps

- pay-period locking and CSV files formatted for ADP, Gusto, and QuickBooks

It is not a payroll processor or full construction-accounting system; it tracks the time, review, scheduling, and export handoff. The free plan supports up to two employees; paid plans start at $3 per employee per month.

https://useclockout.com

If you manage an hourly team, which exception still creates the most cleanup for you: missed punches, scheduling changes, job costing, or payroll export?

Hey,

I recently built Quoska, the open source time tracking tool for small businesses in Germany.

The goal is to keep it as simple as poossible while also checking all the German working time requirements. It's rather minimal currently, but with time and if people want new features that might change a bit. I mainly focused to make it user friendly and easy to use.

It's open source, but I also have a cloud version for little cost. I'd appreciate any feedback.

You can check it out here: https://quoska.de

I just launched Timegeist, a time tracker I wanted to make genuinely useful for solo founders and freelancers.

When you work alone, every tool seems to want another monthly subscription. Time tracking is useful, especially when that time eventually needs to become an invoice, but I don’t think you should have to pay just to complete that basic workflow.

So the Free plan isn’t a trial and doesn’t require a card. It includes:

• timer and manual logging
• clients, projects, tags and track time on tasks
• tasks list + kanban board
• OSX app
• iOS and Android app - about to submit, so coming soon
• reports and PDF/CSV exports
• calendar proposals
• 10 optional AI uses a month
• 3 branded invoices a month (incl. recurring invoices)

There are paid plans, so I’m not pretending the entire product is free. Pro is for people who need more AI usage, want to use MCP, unlimited invoices and their own branding. Team is for collaboration, roles and shared reporting.

But the basic idea is this: if you’re working solo with a few clients, you should be able to keep using Timegeist without paying.

Timegeist: https://timegeist.ai

I’d be interested to hear whether this covers the real solo workflow, or if there’s something obvious missing.

Hi everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Easy Work Calculator, which has grown into a collection of 400+ calculators and utility tools.

Rather than promoting it, I thought I'd share some engineering decisions that made maintaining hundreds of tools manageable.

1. Every calculator follows the same architecture

Each calculator is treated as a small module with:

• Input schema
• Validation rules
• Calculation engine
• Result formatter
• SEO metadata

Keeping the calculation logic independent from the UI has made it much easier to maintain and test.

2. Shared calculation engine

Many calculators seem unique but actually reuse the same underlying logic.

For example:

• Percentage increase/decrease
• Profit & loss
• Discount
• Margin
• ROI

They all share common mathematical functions instead of duplicating code.

3. Browser-first approach

Whenever possible, calculations happen entirely on the client.

Benefits:

• Faster responses
• No API costs
• Better privacy
• Offline-friendly
• Easier scaling

4. One design system

Every calculator uses the same reusable components for:

• Inputs
• Validation
• Results
• Copy/share actions
• Export functionality

That consistency significantly reduced development time.

5. Categories become important

Once you reach a few hundred tools, discoverability becomes harder than building new calculators.

I've spent more time improving search, categorization, and navigation than writing calculation formulas.

6. Small tools create edge cases

The calculations are usually simple.

The difficult part is handling:

• Invalid input
• Localization
• Floating-point precision
• Unit conversions
• Mobile UX
• Accessibility

Those often take longer than implementing the actual formula.

7. Performance matters

Hundreds of pages forced me to think carefully about:

• Code splitting
• Lazy loading
• Shared components
• Bundle size
• SEO
• Core Web Vitals

Small improvements multiplied across hundreds of pages make a noticeable difference.

I'm currently expanding beyond traditional calculators into more developer-focused utilities such as JSON formatters, regex testers, JWT tools, API helpers, and similar utilities.

I'd love feedback from developers who have built large collections of small tools.

• How do you organize reusable logic?
• How do you avoid duplicated code?
• What tooling has saved you the most maintenance over time?

If anyone wants to discuss architecture or implementation details, I'm happy to answer.

Project:
🌐 https://easyworkcalcs.com

Android:
📱 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xylemsoft.ewc

Disclosure: I'm the developer.

In Spain, since RD-Ley 8/2019 every company must keep a daily, tamper-proof record of employees' working hours (clock in/out), keep it for 4 years, and make it available to the Labor Inspection. Most open-source time trackers (Kimai, etc.) don't cover that legal side natively, and the tools that do are proprietary SaaS. So I built OpenJornada.

What it does: employees clock in/out from a web PWA or a shared device; records are immutable and SHA-256-hashed; workers digitally sign their monthly hours; admins handle correction requests with an audit trail and export CSV/Excel/PDF reports for inspections. There are also automatic SMS reminders for missed clock-outs.

Stack: FastAPI + MongoDB API, Next.js admin panel, React PWA for workers. All Docker. Self-host it for free under AGPL-3.0 — code: github.com/openjornada

Honest note: there's also a managed cloud option (paid) for companies that don't want to self-host, but the whole thing is open source and self-hostable with no per-employee limits.

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback — especially from anyone dealing with EU work-time regulations.

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Hey everyone,

I work in IT doing technical support for multiple clients, often urgent and off-site. My main problem: at the end of the day I need to fill in work reports for billing, but I often forget to log things as I go — so some days end up looking "empty" in the company system even though I worked for hours.

I used to use ManicTime, but it has two big limitations: no automatic per-client classification when working on multiple clients at overlapping times (VPN, RealVNC, Excel files open together), and the screenshot feature is paywalled.

I switched to ActivityWatch (open source, local data, extensible) and started customizing it. Since the last official release is a couple of years old, I decided to go further and turn it into a personal fork with a full UI redesign and custom features.

Some screenshots of the work in progress are attached to this post.

NOTE: The project’s design is still at a VERY early stage of development and is subject to many changes, so please don’t be put off by any broken or unsightly details.

What I'm changing (functional):

• Multi-lane timeline on the Home page: instead of the usual "Top Applications/Top Window Titles" boxes, a dedicated lane for VPN (per client), one for VSCode (per project/folder), one for browser (per domain), plus a general one
• Custom VPN watcher that reads OpenVPN Connect's log file and automatically tracks sessions per client
• A "Projects" section: an upgraded manual timer (built on top of the native Stopwatch feature, which is very basic as-is) with pause, history, a chart of hours worked over time, and an optional hour budget with a warning if you go over
• Automatic pause on project timers when the system detects inactivity (reusing the AFK watcher already built into ActivityWatch)
• Configurable periodic screenshots (high compression, user-defined interval), browsable as a mini-timeline inside each activity's detail view
• An integrated AI agent with access to the app's internal API, so you can ask questions about your own data and get analysis back

What I'm changing (visual/UX):

• Full UI redesign: sidebar + topbar layout instead of the current top-only navigation
• Dark theme with a warm color palette (no more randomly assigned colors like in the original)
• Consistent components across the whole app: cards, buttons, hover states, rounded corners
• Real interactions: clicking a timeline block opens a detail view with timestamps and screenshots, clicking an item in the summary panels highlights the matching blocks on the timeline

Do you think this is something others might be interested in too — maybe people with similar needs (freelancers, IT folks, anyone juggling multiple clients)? Any suggestions or features you'd want to see in a tool like this? Open to all feedback and ideas.