What’s new in Plouse

Transcribed meetings now keep their words, projects show what their meeting time is made of, and setup opens on a single clear screen.

• Your meeting transcripts are kept, on your Mac. When you transcribe a call, Plouse now saves what was said so you can read the meeting back, not just the short summary it writes. It never leaves your device and is never part of team sync. Settings has a switch to keep only the summary instead, and a “Delete stored transcripts” button that clears every one of them in a single step.
• A project’s meetings, in one place. Tap a project’s meeting figure and you see exactly what it’s made of: the calls assigned to it and the calendar meetings it’s credited for, each with its time and summary. A meeting you didn’t attend can be removed so it stops counting.
• Better summaries of long meetings. An hour‑long call used to be summarised from its last few minutes. It’s now read in passes, so the summary covers the whole conversation, and it can no longer borrow a project name the meeting never mentioned.
• A calmer first run. Setup opens on your name and a single sentence instead of a panel of features, with an early‑adopter crown you can hover to see what it means, and the permission step now shows what a window title actually is.
• Fixes. On a call, the other person’s voice is no longer labelled as you. Expanding certain project rows could lock the app up, and pause tracking with it. Some menu icons showed as black squares.

A quieter home page you can simply ask, plus on‑device transcription for the meetings you choose.

• Ask Plouse a question. Type “how many hours did I track for a client in June?” or “how much time did I spend in meetings last week” and the answer opens as a full report. Every number is worked out the way the rest of the app works it out; the AI only ever decides which project and which period you meant.
• A quieter home page. The first tab is now a landing page rather than a wall of numbers: your wrap‑up in one sentence, the question field, the projects you touched, and your average focus. The full insight grid is one click behind it.
• Meeting transcription, opt‑in and on‑device. Plouse can ask, before a call, whether to transcribe it. If you agree it listens to both sides on your Mac only, in every language your Mac is set up for, and works out what the meeting was about. It stays off until you switch it on, and telling the other participants remains your responsibility.
• A collapsible sidebar. The rail beside the traffic lights toggles between icons and icons with labels, and remembers your choice.

A cleaner home for meetings, a longer view of your focus, and faster history.

• Calls & meetings, redesigned. The Meetings tab is now one clean list, every detected call and calendar meeting as its own card with its time, its project, and a one‑click “Assign to” for anything unsorted. An “Unassigned only” switch narrows the list to your backlog. The separate Calls tab is gone; its badge and backlog now live here.
• See your focus over time. The Avg Focus card on Insights now opens a full history: a per‑day focus line for as long as you’ve used Plouse, so you can tell whether deep‑work weeks are becoming the rule or the exception.
• Unsorted work asks instead of guessing. Documents that match no project used to be invisible, or worse, AI grouping would invent a junk project to hold them. They now land in an honest “Work to sort” card that shows each document and asks where it belongs.
• Long ranges load much faster. Opening months of history, including all time, now takes a fraction of the time it used to.
• A fresh look for the intro cards. New artwork on a warm sand background across Activity, Projects and the new Meetings card, which offers to connect your calendar.

This one is all about time landing in the right project, with less work from you.

• Work in AI coding apps sorts itself by project. Apps like Codex and Claude show the same window title all day, so hours of work across different projects heaped into one anonymous bucket. Plouse now looks up which folder the app’s coding agent is actually working in and files the time under that project, even for agent apps it hasn’t met yet.
• Tell Plouse what a project is about. Every project can now carry an optional one‑line description, in Settings › Projects and when creating a project. It’s what lets the AI tell whether a stray document really belongs to a project, instead of guessing from a bare name.
• Meetings are marked on the project timeline. A small badge now sits on a project’s lane where a call or a calendar meeting took place, so meeting time reads as a meeting instead of solo work.
• Assign a call without leaving it. “Choose project…” on a call notification now opens a compact panel, search your projects or create one inline, assign, done.
• Merge suggestions no longer list unrelated documents. Every document in a “may cover N unsorted documents” suggestion now passes an individual second‑opinion check; anything the AI can’t justify is quietly left out.
• Keywords now match across spaces. A keyword like “acmecorp” recognises “Acme Corp” in a window title, and the other way around, so that work lands in the right project.

Getting a teammate into your team is now one email away.

• Invite teammates by email. Type a teammate’s address in the invite sheet and Plouse sends them a branded invite with a join link, one click opens the join page, shows the team, and hands the invite straight to the app. The classic copy‑paste code still works as a fallback. Delivery runs through an EU email provider and Plouse never stores the address.
• Invite links open the app. Clicking an invite’s “Open in Plouse” button brings the app to the Team tab with the join flow pre‑filled, including for brand‑new users right after signup.
• Joining your own team is now politely refused. Clicking your own invite could previously demote you to a regular member of your own team. Plouse now recognises teams you’re already in.
• Dark mode no longer opens half‑light. A freshly opened window now dresses itself in your theme the moment it’s created.

Plouse goes dark, and your work style gets a sharper mirror.

• Dark mode. Switch it on in Settings › General › Dark mode and the whole app, every tab, the sidebar, search and all the pop‑up panels, moves to a dark palette.
• Six work‑style archetypes instead of three. Your dominant work mode now looks at how many tools carry your activity, not just how long your stretches run: Deep Diver, Voyager, Metronome, Juggler, Ping‑Pong and Hummingbird, each with its own illustration in the redesigned breakdown.
• A calmer look on the Activity and Projects pages. The intro banners were redesigned with new illustrations and a cleaner, flatter card.
• Window no longer opens frozen. The launch splash could linger invisibly over the page and swallow clicks. Fixed.
• Stray browsing stops landing in a mislabeled project. When the on‑device AI can’t confidently place a one‑off search or quick lookup, it files it under “General browsing” instead of inventing an odd catch‑all project.

You’re now in control of AI grouping, and teams got a big security upgrade.

• Review AI groupings before they change anything. When Plouse’s on‑device AI thinks some loose documents belong in one of your projects, it now suggests the change instead of making it silently. Open the suggestion to see exactly which documents it wants to add, and accept all of them or just the ones you agree with, your manually organised projects are never rearranged behind your back.
• Stronger team security. Joining a team, reading a team’s shared time, and removing a member are now enforced on the server, not just in the app, invite codes stay secret, member identities are pseudonymous, and removing someone actually revokes their access. If you already run a team from an earlier beta, share a fresh invite code so your teammates re‑join on the hardened system.
• More of your data stays on your Mac. Labels and email domains taken from window titles are genericised before Plouse ever asks a cloud AI to help sort them, blocking a URL now hides its window title too, and diagnostic logs no longer include the details of your calls or documents.

Plouse now learns how you work, and keeps stray files out of your projects.

• Work Memory. Plouse now keeps a private, on‑device memory of how you work, your projects, the way you sort your time, and the people you meet, and feeds it to the AI so sorting and insights get sharper the more you use it. Every correction you make teaches it, and it never leaves your Mac. Manage it under Settings › Smart sorting › Work Memory: export it to move to a new Mac or keep a backup, import it back, or reset it. Because it’s a plain, model‑agnostic file, switching the AI behind Plouse later loses nothing you’ve taught it.
• Smarter project suggestions. The “make this a project?” nudge no longer offers up common words (like “search” or “settings”, in any language), recurring words are now checked on‑device against what a real project looks like before they’re ever suggested.
• Projects stop collecting stray files. Contentless window titles, an unsaved “Untitled” design, a “Searching” or “Save” dialog, in any language, are never pinned to a project or suggested as one, so an unsaved file can’t silently land in the wrong project’s time.
• Current logo everywhere. The splash and onboarding screens now show the current Plouse wordmark.

A big update, Plouse now understands your meeting time, both from calls and from your calendar.

• Connect your calendar. Under Settings › Connections, connect Apple Calendar plus any Google, Outlook or Exchange account already synced to your Mac. It’s read‑only and on‑device, nothing leaves your Mac and Plouse never edits your calendar. Choose exactly which calendars to include.
• Meetings tab. See your meeting time split two ways, by what it was about (activity type) and by who you spent it with (your team vs external clients and prospects).
• “Did this meeting happen?” When a real meeting (with others, 10+ min) ends and Plouse detected no microphone activity, it asks with a quick Yes / No notification whether it actually took place, a “No” keeps it out of your meeting time. You can also answer right in the Meetings list.
• Meetings count toward projects. A meeting is credited to a project when its title matches one, or connect it yourself, so a project shows your hands‑on work plus its meeting time, and meeting time never inflates your focus score.
• Calls get their real name. A detected call now borrows its title from your calendar event, so it reads “Q3 review” instead of just “Zoom call”.
• A focus‑quality app insight, and fresh onboarding. A new insight card calls out an app where your focus stands out, and setup now asks two quick questions, whether you work for one company or many clients, and your role (from 12 options), to tune how Plouse groups your work.

Opening a project now loads much faster, the difference is biggest once you’ve built up months of history.

• Project details open quickly. The activity timeline shows up right away instead of after a pause, and opening a project straight from search is effectively instant.
• Snappier Insights and Activity. The category breakdowns behind those pages are computed far more efficiently, so they refresh faster too.

The Projects page got a redesign and a new way to see how you’re doing.

• A cleaner Projects list. Project rows have been redesigned, focus and time now sit inline next to each project, with a clearer activity bar.
• See how your focus compares. Open a project and you’ll see how this period’s focus stacks up against your recent usual on it. When there isn’t enough history to compare, it simply stays hidden.
• Readable timeline dates. On wider date ranges, the activity‑timeline labels no longer overlap, they thin out to every other day, weekly, or monthly as needed.
• Simpler Projects page. Removed the Projects/Category switch, category breakdowns live on the Activity tab.

Plouse now accounts for the time you spend in video calls.

• Automatic call detection. When you’re on a video call, Plouse notices and tracks it as meeting time, and can prompt you to tag it to the right project the moment a call starts.
• Meetings as their own thing. Call time shows up as a “Meetings” overlay, so it’s clear what was a meeting versus heads‑down work.
• More accurate per‑project time. Time spent in a meeting is credited to the project and reconciled so your documents and meetings add up correctly.
• No duplicate projects. You can no longer accidentally create the same project twice.

Finding and exploring a project is now much easier.

• Project search. Jump straight to any project from the new search on the Projects page.
• Project detail pages. Open any project for an all‑time deep dive, time by category, an activity timeline, your documents, and an optional AI write‑up.
• Faster. The project detail page now opens quicker.

Plouse can now sort your time into categories for you, tuned to the kind of work you do.

• Pick your role, get the right categories. Choose your role during setup and Plouse starts you with a tailored set of categories instead of a blank slate.
• Automatic sorting. Your tracked activity is grouped into those categories for you, so your day adds up without manual tagging.
• Everything stays on your Mac. The sorting runs entirely on‑device, nothing about your activity ever leaves your computer.
• Refreshed the Insights, Projects and Activity views.

A new icon, a smoother few corners, and several fixes.

• New app icon and launch screen. Plouse has a refreshed mark, shown on a brief splash when it starts.
• Press Return to add a project. Hit Enter in the new‑project window to create it, no need to reach for the mouse.
• Accurate focus streaks. Your focus streak no longer gets stuck at “7‑day” once you pass a week, it now counts the real length.
• “Manage what’s tracked” lands in the right place. It now opens the Tracking settings directly.
• Color picker fix. Picking a project or category color now displays correctly on macOS Sequoia.
• Hover tips on the Projects cards no longer flash over the card before settling beneath it.

An important fix for anyone who’d seen their setup reset.

• No more lost settings on update. Some updates could reset your projects, categories, and details back to defaults. That’s fixed, your data now carries across every update.

Fixes to keep your numbers honest and your projects catching the right things.

• Focus never tops 100%. On busy days with lots of app‑switching, a project’s focus score could read above 100%, it’s now calculated correctly.
• Comma‑separated keywords. Typing several keywords at once (e.g. acme, acme‑web) now adds them as separate keywords instead of one that matched nothing. Any old comma‑jammed keywords are repaired automatically.
• Your project name is a keyword. A project now matches its own name out of the box, no need to retype it.
• Smarter short names. Short names and abbreviations (like IO) no longer get pulled into unrelated words such as “studio” or “audio”, or website domains like something.io.

More control over what gets tracked, and a closer look at how you work.

• Tracking hours. Pick the hours of the day Plouse should track; anything outside your window is never recorded. Set it with a day‑cycle slider in Settings › Tracking.
• Delete an entry. Remove an individual tracked entry from a project via the ⋯ menu next to it, with a quick confirmation.
• Your work style. Tap the Dominant work mode card in Insights to see how your time splits across Maker, Juggler, and Communicator.
• Stronger incognito privacy. Private and incognito browser windows are now fully excluded, not just the URL, but the window title and time too (Chrome, Edge, and Arc; macOS doesn’t let any app detect Safari’s private browsing).
• The app‑by‑app list now scales smoothly to match the projects list.

Focus now understands that real work hops between tools, so jumping around no longer looks like losing focus.

• Focus follows your workflow. Rapidly switching between related tools, say a web image generator, Photoshop, and Figma, now counts as one focused stretch instead of breaking your focus. Distractions (WhatsApp, YouTube, news sites…) and bouncing between different projects still break it.
• The focus % in the menu bar now matches the average focus shown on the Insights page.
• Faster: the app no longer recomputes in the background while its window is open. Pull down at the top of any page to refresh, with a little indicator.
• Settings are now split into General, Projects, and Tracking tabs.
• Project keywords are shown without unlocking now, only your excluded keywords stay behind Touch ID.
• Fixed the auto-cluster switch disappearing when turned off with no saved projects.

A batch of fixes for macOS 26 Tahoe, plus a small new feature. Fix for Çağrı.

• Fixed the app appearing to not start after you grant Screen Recording permission. macOS quits the app when that permission changes, Plouse now brings its window back, and clicking the app again always reopens it.
• Fixed a blank Settings screen on macOS 26 Tahoe.
• The info that pops up when you hover the summary cards in Projects now sits neatly below the card, instead of behind it.
• Fixed the colour picker not showing correctly when creating a new project.
• New: move an individual tracked entry to a different project from the ⋯ menu next to it.

Some people found that clicking Open in the menu‑bar dropdown didn’t bring up the main window. This is fixed.

• The window now opens on the display you’re actually using, instead of sometimes appearing on another monitor.
• It reliably comes to the front on macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, where it could previously open hidden behind other apps.

The first public release. Plouse quietly measures focus on your Mac, on‑device, no timers, no accounts.

• Menu‑bar app that records focus locally using macOS APIs.
• Daily heatmap and peaks view so you can see when you do your best work.
• Per‑app and per‑project time breakdowns.
• Privacy controls: strip window titles, block apps or sites, and skip incognito windows.

Rebuilt the peaks renderer so large histories scroll smoothly, and tightened memory use while recording in the background.