Chronoid

Your time tracking is lying to you.

Manual timers miss the messy middle: context switching, quick edits, “just one more” Slack check, and the 40-minute rabbit hole you swear was five.

Chronoid on chronoid.app takes the human out of the loop.

It sits on macOS and tracks time in the background across the apps you work in - editors, terminals, browsers, design tools - then turns that raw activity into usable records.

Here’s the deal: if you bill clients, you don’t need perfect. You need defensible.

What Chronoid actually fixes

1) “I forgot to start the timer”.

Chronoid captures time automatically, so your day doesn’t disappear just because you didn’t click a button at 9:02.

That means fewer underbilled hours and fewer awkward invoice edits.

2) “My timesheet is a guess”.

Chronoid builds a paper trail from real app usage.

You can look back and see where the hours went, then turn it into cleaner entries for client work, internal tasks, or deep work blocks.

3) “I can’t focus with the internet open”.

Chronoid ships with a Pomodoro timer and website blocking.

Not a philosophy. A guardrail.

The angle that matters: privacy

A lot of tracking apps act like spyware with a dashboard.

Chronoid pushes a different stance: your data stays local and private on your Mac. No credit card required to try it. The site also calls out a free 14-day trial.

But there’s a catch: local-first only works if the product still gives you answers.

Chronoid leans on AI-based insights and productivity analytics to show patterns without turning your workday into a surveillance feed.

Who this is for

Freelancers who invoice hourly.

Remote workers who need proof of progress.

Indie builders who want fewer tools, not another “system”.

If you want time tracking that doesn’t nag, chronoid.app is built for that exact pain.