About us
Time tracking that doesn’t watch you
Temporal.ist is automatic time tracking for people who bill by the hour. Your file edits and the URLs you visit become billable sessions on their own — no timers to start, no screenshots, no surveillance.
Why we exist
A normal billable hour for a developer or designer is spread across an editor, a browser,
a few Slack threads, a Figma file and a terminal — all in fifteen minutes. Asking
people to start and stop a timer for each of those context switches is a losing fight
against attention. The result is the Friday-afternoon ritual of reconstructing the week
from git log, browser history and bad memory. It’s a known accuracy
disaster, and it under-bills honest work.
We think the timer is the wrong tool. So instead of asking you to mark when work begins, Temporal.ist watches the work itself — the files you save and the pages you open — and assembles accurate sessions automatically. The category has drifted toward monitoring employees with screenshots and scores; we built the opposite on purpose.
What we believe
No surveillance
No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no productivity scores. Tracking is what you built and where you browsed — never a camera pointed at your desk.
Transparent by default
Everything captured is readable as plain file paths and visited URLs. If you can’t see exactly what a tracker recorded about you, you can’t trust it.
Your data, local first
Activity is captured on your machine first and syncs only what’s needed for teams and invoicing. It keeps working offline.
Billing without friction
Invoicing lives in the same product. Tracked sessions become invoice line items at your client’s rate — no export to a second app.
What we’re building
One product, capturing your work from wherever it happens, and turning it into clean, billable hours.
Desktop client
macOS, Windows and Linux. Watches the folders you choose and turns file edits into sessions automatically.
Linux CLI & TUI
For headless servers and remote dev. Installs over SSH, signs in with the device flow, runs as a service.
Browser extensions
Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. Map URL patterns to projects so web-based work is captured too.
Web dashboard
Projects, sessions, calendar, reports and invoices — with per-client and per-project totals, in real time.
Where we are
Temporal.ist is in early access and free to use right now. There are rough edges and things we haven’t built yet — we ship every week and prioritise the roadmap around what early users actually ask for. If a specific integration or workflow would unblock you, tell us; that’s how it moves up the queue.
Who’s behind it
Temporal.ist is built by a small, independent team under ame.link. We’re developers and freelancers ourselves, building the time tracker we wanted to use — one that’s honest about what it records and stays out of your way. Have a question, an idea, or a bug? We’d genuinely like to hear it at hello@temporal.ist.
Start tracking, free
See your billable hours assemble themselves — no timers, no screenshots, invoicing built in.