The timesheet that
writes itself.
Temporal.ist watches the folders you point it at and turns file saves into accurate, billable hours. No timers to remember. No screenshots, ever. No Sunday evening spent reconstructing Tuesday.
Free with unlimited folders · no credit card · cancel any time
You save a file.
That's it. That's the timer.
The watcher notices every save in the folders you chose — the extension, every visit to the URLs you listed. Sessions assemble themselves on the right, invoice-ready.
Animated illustration: file save events stream in on the left, and each one adds minutes to the matching project in a daily timesheet on the right, which totals into an invoice estimate.
files · desktop app for windows / macos / linux urls · chrome / firefox / edge / safari
sunday · 21:47 · invoice due tomorrow
Tuesday was… four hours? Five? Did the call eat the morning?
Thursday you fixed the deploy at midnight. From your phone. Where does that go?
And the “quick fix” that took a day — billed as an hour.
Reconstructing a week from memory under-bills it by roughly 20%. You're not bad at timesheets. Timesheets are bad at you.
Three entries.
Then it's just… on.
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Install the watcher
A small desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux — plus browser extensions if your work lives in tabs. No agents, no admin nonsense.
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Point it at your folders
One folder per client or project. Add URL patterns for the web tools you bill time in. That is the entire configuration.
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Close it and forget it
Every save becomes a timestamp. Timestamps become sessions, sessions become hours, hours become invoices. You just work.
total setup — 3 minutes (logged automatically, obviously)
Everything downstream
of one good ledger.
Zero manual entry
No timers to start, stop, or forget about for four hours. Saving a file is the timer.
Folders and URLs
The desktop app watches project folders; the browser extension watches the web tools you work in. Same ledger.
Dashboards that answer questions
Hours per project, per client, per weekday. Where the time actually went — not where you remember it going.
A calendar of real work
Day, week and month views built from sessions, not from meetings you accepted and didn’t attend.
Invoices in seconds
Tracked hours flow straight into line items. Export PDF, CSV or JSON — or paste into your own invoicing tool.
Private by architecture
We store timestamps and file paths you chose to watch. Never file contents, never your screen, never your keys.
Time tracking went somewhere dark. We're not following it.
- Screenshots. not at intervals · not at all
- Keystroke logging. we never see what you type
- Activity scores. no mouse-jiggle mathematics
- Webcam check-ins. yes, that exists elsewhere
- Selling your data. founder-signed privacy policy
Timestamps in, invoices out. Nothing else. If your workflow needs screenshots or activity scores, we're the wrong product — and proud of it.
your data, on your terms — the specifics, not the vibes
- GDPR Art. 44 Origin servers and backups stay in the EU. Logs never cross the Atlantic.
- GDPR Art. 15 One-click export of every session, project and invoice. JSON or CSV, no support ticket.
- GDPR Art. 17 Delete your account from Settings. Data cascades out within 30 days, backups within 90.
- GDPR Art. 20 Sessions and invoices export in portable formats. Leave whenever you like, with everything.
- GDPR Art. 28 DPA available for Pro and Team plans — emailed within one business day.
- GDPR Art. 6 No ad-tech inside the app. No Google Analytics, no pixels, no third-party trackers.
Questions? privacy@temporal.ist — answered by a person, in writing, within one business day.
Pricing without
a decoder ring.
Solo
For individuals getting started
- Track unlimited folders & URLs
- Basic dashboard
- 30-day history
- Weekly reports
Pro
For freelancers & consultants
- Unlimited history
- Advanced analytics
- Client & project tags
- Invoice generation
- Export to CSV / PDF / JSON
- Priority email support
Team
For agencies & teams · min 4 seats
- Everything in Pro
- Team dashboard
- Manager reports
- Billable rate tracking
- Client portal
- DPA included
Start free. Upgrade when it pays for itself — which is one recovered hour.
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Free forever with unlimited folders · no credit card · setup in 3 minutes