A Smarter, Simpler Way to Track Time
Rize is shaped by the practices and principles that distinguish world-class teams from the rest: relentless focus, fast execution, and a commitment to accurate time tracking.
Discover how Rize can automate your time tracking needs
Stop losing revenue to forgotten tasks and inaccurate guesstimates. Rize's AI-powered tracking captures all activity with precision, ensuring every billable minute is accounted for while you focus on what matters most.
No credit card required. Available for macOS and Windows.
Automatic Time Tracking Features
Stop losing revenue to forgotten tasks and inaccurate guesstimates. Rize's AI-powered tracking captures all activity with precision, ensuring every billable minute is accounted for while you focus on what matters most.
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Intelligent Activity Tracking
Rize automatically tracks the applications, websites, and documents you use as you work. Rize's AI intelligently categorizes your activities and provides a precise timeline without requiring manual start/stop timers.
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Automatic Meeting Sessions
Sync your Google or Outlook calendar, and Rize automatically identifies your scheduled meetings, logging their duration into your timeline. Rize scans event titles and descriptions for keywords, tagging these sessions to the appropriate client, project, or task – all without manual entry.
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AI-Powered Tagging
Rize's AI uses the patterns and context of your activity to automatically tag time entries to clients, projects, or tasks. Rize can even auto-generate an accurate description for the entry, drastically reducing review and edit time.
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Seamless ClickUp Integration
Rize's AI uses the patterns and context of your activity to automatically tag time entries to clients, projects, or tasks. Rize can even auto-generate an accurate description for the entry, drastically reducing review and edit time.
See What Untracked Time Costs You
Most teams lose 20-30% of billable hours to manual tracking gaps. Calculate your profitability gap in seconds.
Try the Profit CalculatorAutomatic Time Tracking for Mac and Windows
Rize is a native desktop app built for the platform you already use. No browser extensions, no mobile workarounds — real desktop-level automatic time tracking with AI categorization.
Automatic Time Tracking Mac
Rize is the best automatic time tracking app for Mac. Built as a native macOS application, it runs silently in your menu bar and captures every app, browser tab, and document you work on — without manual timers. Apple Silicon optimized for M1, M2, M3, and M4 chips, Rize uses less than 1% CPU and has negligible battery impact. Unlike Timely or Toggl, Rize requires zero interaction — just install and work.
- ✓Native macOS menu bar app — launches at login, runs invisibly
- ✓Tracks Safari, Chrome, Figma, VS Code, Slack, Zoom, and all desktop apps
- ✓Apple Silicon native — optimized for M-series performance and battery life
- ✓macOS accessibility API for accurate active window detection
- ✓Supports macOS Sonoma, Sequoia, and later
Automatic Time Tracking Windows
Rize brings automatic time tracking to Windows 10 and Windows 11. The native Windows app sits in your system tray and captures every application, browser session, and document switch — no timers to start, no entries to fill. While tools like Toggl and Clockify require you to press start/stop for every task, Rize tracks everything passively with under 1% CPU usage. Ideal for freelancers, agencies, and teams who bill by the hour on Windows.
- ✓Native system tray app — launches at startup, runs in the background
- ✓Tracks all desktop applications, browsers, and documents
- ✓Lightweight — less than 1% CPU usage during tracking
- ✓Windows accessibility API for precise foreground window detection
- ✓Full support for Windows 10 and Windows 11
Automatic vs. Manual Time Tracking
What is the difference between automatic and manual time tracking? Here is how Rize compares to manual timer tools like Toggl and Clockify across the metrics that matter.
| Feature | Automatic (Rize) | Manual (Toggl / Clockify) |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | 100% of work time captured automatically | 60-80% — depends on memory and discipline |
| Setup time | Install once, tracking starts immediately | Create projects, configure timers for each task |
| Ongoing effort | Zero — runs passively in the background | Start/stop timers every task switch |
| Billable hour recovery | 15-40% more hours recovered vs. manual | Baseline — short tasks and context switches lost |
| Privacy | No screenshots, no keystroke logging | Varies — some tools capture screenshots |
| Context switches | Every app and tab switch logged | Sub-5-minute tasks typically missed |
| Project attribution | AI categorizes activities automatically | Manual project selection per entry |
| Meeting tracking | Calendar sync — meetings logged automatically | Manual entry after each meeting |