Hourray: Automatic Time Tracker & Focus Timer

No timer to start. Counts reading and calls, not just typing. Focus timer built in. Your day stays on this computer.

Hourray keeps track of your work day for you. There is no timer to start or stop. Once it is on, it notices which documents, emails and calls you spend your time on, counts reading and calls as work, and writes the day up for you. When you need a timesheet, it gives you the week or the month as a PDF or a spreadsheet, by client and project, with your rates. No screenshots. No keystrokes recorded. No account, no ads. Nothing leaves your computer. Your data is never sold. All of this is free: • Tracking, with no timer to start • Your day written up, to check and save • Projects, clients and hourly rates • A focus timer with your own modes, notes and a daily goal • Exports as a PDF, a spreadsheet (.csv) or a Markdown file (.md) • Backup and restore • A year of history, kept on your computer What it does • Tracks by document, not by tab: the same sheet opened six times is one line • Counts reading and calls as work, up to a limit you choose (15 to 90 minutes). Past that, it asks whether to add the rest • Back after time away from the computer? It asks what it was: a meeting, a phone call, a break, or not work. One press, or leave it for later • A focus timer with an hourglass: Classic (25 minutes of focus and a 5 minute break, with a longer break after every four rounds), Deep (50 and 10) and Flow (work as long as you like, then a short break). The minutes left (in Flow, the minutes so far) show on the toolbar icon, and a notification tells you when a round or a break is over • Make up to 8 focus modes of your own, with your own lengths. Give one a project and the time from its rounds goes under that project • Say what a session is for and, after it, what got done. The review page lists each session with your words • A daily focus goal if you want one, shown as a quiet bar. Off unless you turn it on • A gentle reminder if you open a site you listed during a focus round, with "Back to work" to return to the page you were on. Off unless you turn it on, and nothing is ever blocked • Pause for 15 minutes, an hour, or until tomorrow, and it starts again by itself • "Don't track this site" for the page you are on, with Undo • Understands meetings, and doesn't count notes you take during a call twice • Groups research and email, so your day is a handful of lines, not a browser history • Writes a plain summary you can paste into a standup • Learns which project a document belongs to, so you only say it once • Attach a link, a file or a note to any line, as proof of the work. It stays on your computer • Exports a week, a fortnight or a month by project or by client, as a PDF, .csv or .md • Billing rounding if you bill that way: each project's time on each day rounded to 6, 15 or 30 minutes • Shows your time to the minute • Keeps a year of history on your computer, or less if you prefer • Copies your day or week, ready to paste into a timesheet • Larger text, settings in Chrome's side panel if you like, and a short guided tour • "Something wrong? Tell me" in Settings opens an email to the maker Used Clockify, Toggl or RescueTime? Hourray needs no sign-up, and projects, rates and exports are included. It does not import from them. What it doesn't do • No microphone, no camera, no page contents, no keystrokes • No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads • Can't see other Chrome profiles: switch profiles and it sees nothing • Sends nothing anywhere. The only network request it can make is reading your own calendar link, and only if you paste one in Time at the keyboard while Chrome is in the background (the Zoom app, desktop Word, Figma) is counted as one line a day that you name yourself. A browser extension cannot see which app it was, only that you were typing, so it never claims to know. You can turn that off in Settings, and untick the line any day it wasn't work. Time with the screen locked or the computer asleep is never counted on its own. When you come back, Hourray asks what it was, and it is also listed on the review page, so an hour in a meeting away from the keyboard is one press to count, not a hole in the day.