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“With Rize I never need to ask myself where I'm spending my time. Instead, I can ask myself how I want to spend my time.”
Kevin Hsu
Co-Founder & Head of Product, Quaestor
“Rize has helped me get more time to focus on coding and build better work habits around taking breaks.”
Justine De Caires
Software Engineer, Twitter
“Rize has been a no-brainer for me. It has been essential for me to optimize my deep work time when I sit down to work on my book.”
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YouTuber, Podcaster, Author
Frequently Asked Questions
Rize is built for anyone who wants to improve their productivity and focus. Whether you're a developer, designer, writer, student, or entrepreneur—Rize helps you understand how you spend your time and achieve your goals more effectively.
If you decide to stop paying for Rize, you can retain access to your account and export past data. However, any new activity going forward will not be tracked.
Rize was created by Will Goto and Macgill Davis. Together, they previously cofounded and ran a VC-backed startup for 3 years with over $3.1 million in funding.
Will has a background in front-end software engineering and design with work experience at Twitter, Periscope, and numerous early stage startups.
Macgill focuses primarily on back-end software engineering with work experience at Twitter and Peer. Previously, he cofounded and sold a company called GuideHire in Boston.
Will has a background in front-end software engineering and design with work experience at Twitter, Periscope, and numerous early stage startups.
Macgill focuses primarily on back-end software engineering with work experience at Twitter and Peer. Previously, he cofounded and sold a company called GuideHire in Boston.
Rize is a macOS and Windows app that automatically captures time spent on your desktop's focused window. For websites, it will connect and request the current url to help categorize any time spent in browsers.
For meetings, Rize allows you to integrate your Google Calendar to capture time in meetings even if your focused window is not the video call. This is helpful if you are presenting or multi-tasking.
For meetings, Rize allows you to integrate your Google Calendar to capture time in meetings even if your focused window is not the video call. This is helpful if you are presenting or multi-tasking.
Rize's individual plans range from $12.99–$39.99/month, or $9.99–$29.99/month with annual billing. Team plans are $39.99/seat/month, or $29.99/seat/month with annual billing. Annual billing saves up to 25%.
Yes. Rize offers a free trial with full access to all features — no credit card required. You can track time, set up categories, and see reports before committing to a plan.
Rize offers a free 7-day trial with full feature access. After the trial, individual plans start at $9.99/month (Basic, billed annually) or $12.99/month billed monthly. There is no permanently free tier, but you can export all your data at any time.
Monthly billing offers the most flexibility, while annual billing lowers the monthly equivalent. Annual billing saves up to 25% on Team plans and up to 23% on individual plans. Quarterly billing is also available at a smaller discount, and you can switch billing periods at any time from your account settings.
Rize is not employee monitoring. It does not take screenshots, record screens, log keystrokes, or track mouse movement. Rize only captures metadata — app names, URLs, and window titles — to categorize where time goes. Team members review and approve their own time data before managers see it. There is no surveillance component.
Yes. Rize has dedicated team and enterprise plans with manager dashboards, per-client and per-project time breakdowns, billable hour tracking, profitability reporting, and CSV/PDF export. Agencies use Rize to track billable hours automatically across clients without requiring anyone to start a timer.
Rize is currently available for macOS (Mojave 10.14.6 or later) and Windows (Windows 10 or later). Support for Linux will be coming soon.
On macOS, Rize supports all major browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge, Arc, SigmaOS, Mighty and many more.
Rize tracks time spent on unsupported browsers, but is unable to categorize any activity by URL within the browser.
On macOS, Rize supports all major browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge, Arc, SigmaOS, Mighty and many more.
Rize tracks time spent on unsupported browsers, but is unable to categorize any activity by URL within the browser.
Yes. After signing up, you can share your referral code to give your friends one free month of Rize. You will also receive one free month of Rize for each friend that becomes a subscriber.
For those with considerable audiences, we have an ambassador program where you can earn 40% of any recurring subscription payments from your referrals.
For those with considerable audiences, we have an ambassador program where you can earn 40% of any recurring subscription payments from your referrals.
Your data is hosted on Amazon Web Services, protected both physically and electronically. Your data is only accessible through your personal password-protected account, and any data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Our database generates backups of our data at least twice a day for redundancy.
Our team has engineering experience from top technology companies like Twitter and Periscope. Security is not an afterthought for us; we design, develop, and ship code with security as a top consideration.
Our team has engineering experience from top technology companies like Twitter and Periscope. Security is not an afterthought for us; we design, develop, and ship code with security as a top consideration.
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