Producionist is a local-first automatic time tracker for Mac: it keeps the record of your day on its own, and lets you mark time away from the screen — meetings, workouts, rest — in under a minute. Your day finally adds up. Everything stays on your Mac: no screenshots, no cloud.
One-time license, a year of updates included. No subscription.
Every Mac time tracker equates your day with your screen. Here, screen time is only part of the picture.
Apps, windows, sites — no timers, no manual entries. One background process, easy on the battery.
A meeting, a workout, lunch: marked in two clicks. Time away from the screen is a first-class part of your day, not a gap in the report.
How much deep work, how many context switches, where the day went — against your own yesterday, not somebody else's norms.
Deep work is a trainable capacity: it has load, recovery and a personal baseline. Producionist measures you against you — not against motivational posters.
Every counting rule is visible and overridable. "How it counts" is an open document, not a black box.
Events are stored as they happened, forever. Your edits are a layer on top of the data: the original record of the day is never replaced.
When the app doesn't know something, it says so. Unmarked time shows up amber instead of being guessed.
Everything runs and stays on your Mac — the way personal software used to work.
And there never will be one. You are the only person who sees this data.
Window metadata only: app name, window title, site address — via the system Accessibility API. There is no screen recording: screenshots and keylogging are technically impossible, not merely "disabled".
A local SQLite database. Zero cloud calls with your data — verify it with any firewall.
One click: system Focus turns on by itself, distractions are recorded honestly. Gentle nudges instead of hard blocking — a grown-up tool, not a warden.
It's not a subscription. Your software — like your data — is yours.
Nowhere. Everything lives in a local database on your Mac. The app makes no network calls with your data — verify it with Little Snitch or any firewall.
No. Producionist is personal software: no team features, no admin panel, no reports upstairs. No screenshots and no keylogging — the app only sees window names and site addresses.
Automatic tracking needs the Accessibility API, and App Store sandboxing doesn't allow it — that's why serious Mac trackers ship directly. Producionist is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper installs it the standard way.
The app keeps working — forever. Only the update window expires; extend it if you want new versions.
In purpose — yes: automatic time tracking and productivity analytics. The difference: everything is stored locally, the whole day is visible — including time away from the screen — and you pay once instead of subscribing. If you miss Qbserve, you'll feel at home.
Screen Time knows no categories, no deep work, no away time. Producionist collects the whole day and gives you an honest takeaway, not a pile of charts.
Soon. We're looking for 10–20 Mac testers — follow along for early access and the founder price.
We're looking for the first 10–20 testers. Early access and the founder price — for followers.
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