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Always there, never in the way
Lives in your Mac menu bar and quietly measures your focus in the background, no timers to start, nothing to remember.
Less tracking.
More focus.
It runs quietly in the background and turns your day into honest focus insights. No timers to start, nothing to remember.
Download for mac
Your work automatically tracked
Every app, site and document you touch is captured and categorised in real time, your day maps itself.
Most productive
14:00
When you tend to be the most focused
Daily insights and trend recognition
A daily focus heatmap surfaces your natural peaks, so you can see when you do your strongest work.
Smart project clustering
Plouse groups related activity into projects automatically and shows exactly where your time goes.
Automatic call and meeting detection
Zoom, Meet and Teams calls are detected and logged on their own, just tag who they were with.
Local AI insights
On-device AI turns your week into plain-language insights and suggestions, private, and never off your Mac.
Made yours
Private by default. Smart on your terms. Flexible at any scale.
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Get detailed time reports
Turn any date range into a polished report, total hours, focus, sessions, meetings and a full category breakdown. One click exports it to PDF, ready for clients, invoices or your own records.
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Zoom out, not just in
See where today’s hours went, then widen the lens. Last week, this quarter, the past year. Any range you choose.
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Private by default, on your Mac
Plouse runs entirely on-device. Your activity is measured and stored on your Mac, with no account and nothing sent to the cloud, unless you choose to share team totals or point it at a cloud AI.
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BETA
Work together as a team
Spin up a team, invite people with a join code, and see where everyone’s focus really goes. Each person’s raw activity stays on their own Mac, only the totals they choose are shared.
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Turbo-charge insights with your local AI or AI of choice
Point Plouse at a local model or the AI of your choice, Claude, GPT, Gemini or fully on-device Apple Intelligence, for summaries, patterns and focus tips drawn from your own activity. Your choice, your data.
Plouse works locally with
Apple Intelligence
Or connect your own AI of choice to power up your data.
About us
We built the tracker we
actually wanted to use
Plouse started with a small frustration. Every time-tracking tool we tried either nagged us to start a timer or quietly shipped our day off to someone else’s servers. Neither helped us do better work, they just added one more thing to manage.
So we made the opposite. A focused app that reads the shape of your day on its own, keeps your raw activity on your Mac, and tells you something honest: when you were truly in flow, and when you were simply busy.
We’re a small, independent team that cares more about deep work than dashboards. No investors pushing us to harvest your data, no growth team inventing reasons to ping you. Just a tool we use every day, shared with people who work the way we do.
Pricing
Free for you.
Built for teams.
Use Plouse solo for free, forever. Add a shared workspace when your team wants the bigger picture.
Free
Free forever
For individuals. The full app, on-device, no account.
- Automatic focus tracking, on-device
- Smart project clustering
- Daily insights & focus heatmap
- Calendar & automatic call detection
- PDF exports
- Full privacy controls
Small team
€12,99 / month
For teams of up to 5 members.
- Everything in Free
- Up to 5 members
- Shared team dashboard
- Team focus & project totals
- Team timesheet PDF exports
- Private workspace, raw activity stays local
Big teams
Custom pricing
For teams of 6+, tailored to your organisation.
- Everything in Small team
- 6 to unlimited members
- Volume pricing that scales
- Team focus & project totals
- Team timesheet PDF exports
- Private workspace, raw activity stays local
Frequently asked
Quick answers to the things people ask most.
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By default, no. The solo app needs no account and stores everything locally on your Mac. Team features are opt-in: if you join a team, only the focus and project totals you choose are synced to your team’s private workspace, your raw activity stays on your machine.
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No. It lives in your menu bar and detects what you’re working on automatically. Nothing to start, stop, or remember.
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Sustained, uninterrupted time on a single project, not raw screen time. Long stretches of deep work count. Rapid context-switching does not. That’s what makes the daily and weekly numbers honest.
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Related windows, files, and apps you tend to use together are clustered into a single project automatically. You can rename, merge, or split clusters whenever the grouping doesn’t match how you think about your work.
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Yes. The more you use it, the sharper it gets, and everything it learns stays yours. Most time trackers start from zero every day. Plouse doesn’t. It quietly builds up an understanding of your world, the projects you actually work on, how you like your time sorted, the people you meet with. Correct it once and it remembers: move a document to the right project, rename something, recategorise an app, and it gets it right next time. It’s the difference between a tool you configure and one that gets to know you.
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macOS only for now. Other platforms aren’t on the roadmap yet.
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Yes. Create a team, invite people with a join code, and see shared focus and project totals. Each member’s raw activity stays on their own Mac, only the totals they choose are synced to your team’s private workspace. Teams is a paid plan; the solo app stays free.