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Rize — An intelligent time tracker that makes you more productive
Rize is a time tracker that makes you more productive. It helps you be more in control of your workday and builds better habits by encouraging you to be more focused and more efficient. Currently available on macOS. Windows and Linux coming soon.
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Adi Patil
Been using this tool for little over a week. It is incredibly useful. I can now exactly know where I spend a lot of my time and then do something about it. :)
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@iamadipatil Awesome, Adi! Glad to hear that you're finding it useful. Let us know if you have any feedback as you continue to use it.
been using rize for the past few months. gotta say that it's a stellar product experience, especially if you're a fan of using data to help optimize your productivity. the cofounders are also super responsive and nice to talk to :)
@eddiepluswang Thank you so much Eddie. We're supreme data junkies over here so it's great to hear others appreciate it too.
My cofounder, @macgridcupcake, and I built Rize with a philosophy similar to Cal Newport’s view on productivity—that the value of deep work is becoming both increasingly valuable and rare in our world. To cultivate deep work, we need to understand how our habits affect how much time and attention we spend on our tasks. Only then can we begin to change and improve ourselves.
Existing time trackers simply focus on categorizing your tracked time and some aren’t even automatic. Rize takes that a step further and uses that data to help you work smarter. Here are some of the questions you can finally answer with Rize:
✅ What apps/websites are distracting me the most?
✅ How often am I context switching?
✅ How focused and am I during the day?
✅ Am I actually being efficient with my time?
✅ Am I taking enough breaks?
✅ Am I working too much?
✅ Do I have too many meetings?
✅ At what point do my meetings take away from my focus time?
We also built in features that help you build healthy work habits over time like notifications that tell you when to take breaks after working for a specific amount of uninterrupted time, and, my favorite, notifications that tell you when you worked a certain number of hours for the day to prevent burnout.
If you are interested in seeing all of Rize’s capabilities and how to use them, check out our User Guide: https://rize.io/guide
Our roadmap for the near future includes:
❇️ iCal and outlook support
❇️ Windows support
❇️ Linux support
In terms of security, our team has engineering experience from top technology companies like Twitter and Periscope. Your data is hosted on Amazon Web Services, protected both physically and electronically, is only accessible through your personal password-protected account, and is encrypted at rest and in transit. Our database generates backups of your data at least twice a day for redundancy.
Right now, Rize is currently only available for macOS (Mojave 10.14.6 or later) and automatically tracks your activity in Google Chrome, Safari, Brave Browser, WaveBox, Ghost Browser, Sidekick, Opera, and Microsoft Edge. Rize tracks time spent on Firefox but is unable to categorize any activity within the browser. Support for Windows and Linux will be coming soon.
We feel a very strong personal connection to this project. The goal of continuously improving ourselves through quantifiable metrics and self-reflection is something that aligns deeply with our core values. We are purely self-funded, and we hope to work on Rize for the long term with your support.
Thanks for checking us out! 🍻
@macgridcupcake @wrgoto Wow! This is my new favorite app to track time! I do pay a lot of attention to UI and yours just blows my mind! Awesome! 🚀
@wrgoto @bochkovaleks thank you so much! That means a lot to hear. We put a lot of time and effort into UI and design.
Looks interesting. Came here because I saw @ken_moo post this in his Facebook group. All the best for the launch :)
That actually makes a lot of sense. Great to have an app that can help build healthy habits on top of tracking where your time is spent. Thanks for creating this!
Thanks so much! We really want Rize to help build healthier and more productive work habits. We think of Rize as a "fitness app but for you work"
@staflow We're shooting to get it out within the next few months. We don't have an exact timeline right now. We want to nail the experience on one platform (macOS) before adding Windows and Linux. I'm sorry I can't give a more concrete timeline!
@macgridcupcake ok if its now already "within next few months" it will be at least one year to see any working tool. good luck
@staflow I completely understand you're hesitancy. We had a method of estimating product delivery by multiplying estimates by three at a previous company haha. But we take our estimates quite seriously and believe we will ship Windows within the next few months. The app is built in Electron (https://www.electronjs.org/) which is a framework built to easily port to multiple operating systems. We actually tested on a Windows machine and got it working recently but have to make some architectural changes on the backend to get things production ready.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know we released our Windows app beta. You can download it here: https://rize.io/download/windows
coming from rescuetime and pen and paper heatmaps. this looks very promising, the UI is astutely thought out and the training and config flexibility is very promising, waiting for outlook support for giving it a real test of character
@wrgoto I *think* I accidentally hit send with half a comment typed? Probably meant to ask "focus on" and didn't get to "Mac desktop only" before a 4 year old stole my attention.
Rize i just A-M-A-Z-I-N-G the best detailed and classy productivity app I have ever tried for real no joke. I can categorize every site and app I use and time track everything. It gave me a very clear view on where I must focus my time on. Just love it.
Bravo guys!!!!!
@a_mk thank you so much Armand! It's been awesome having you as a user. We have a lot more planned!
Rize is amazing. I've been using it for several months and it's really helped me monitor and augment my work habits to maximize efficiency and stay fresh. Can't recommend it highly enough!
The first app of this kind I saw was https://timingapp.com a few years ago -- it's nice to see some competition in this space. Your UI looks pretty cool. I'm a big fan of TimingApp, but one thing I wished for is if it was easier to parse the data for the lazy and gain insights. It gives a good export of the data, but trying to make meaning out of it can be difficult.
It's unclear whether data is being stored on your servers though. If so, it'd be nice to have the option to opt-out and only store it locally, which is what Timing offers and I think other 'similar' apps like Superhuman also don't store data on their servers (except for draft emails).
@mandeep Thanks for your feedback! We do store data on our servers. Our thought process behind that decision was that the data can be quite large and storing on our servers allows us to do asynchronous data analysis to provide insights to you. It also allows users to sign into one account across multiple computers which is pretty common.
That's really interesting that TimingApp offers an option to store data locally. We will definitely look into that and keep you posted. Thanks again for taking the time to review Rize.
Looks like a well-thought and well-built product. How does it know exactly when you're taking a break/not focusing enough, if for instance you're reading omething long or analyzing something and need like 10 mins to look at one graph/one picture, etc?
I'm afraid some days I'd see myself not working hard enough, haha
@rubenwolff Rize detects a break in two ways: when you manually start a break using the break timer or when you step away from your computer for more than 5 minutes.
Rize detects focus by sorting different apps and websites into different categories of which some are tagged as focus categories (code, documenting, etc.) and some as non-focus categories (email, messaging, social media, personal). Those categories come with defaults but are completely customizable too. If you spend a certain amount of time in focus categories, Rize will count that time as focus. Rize will also list the apps and websites that are most interrupting to your focus time so you can see what's distracting you.
Somedays I do see in Rize that I'm not focused enough or that I'm distracted but that's okay. We built Rize for you, the individual, around the concept that you can't improve what you don't measure. Before Rize, I often had days where I felt distracted or unproductive but had no insights into why. That doesn't happen anymore.
The other thing I'll add is that most of the time with Rize I feel like I was unproductive but then I look at my Rize dashboard and realized I got a lot done! It's funny how much we forget we accomplished even in a single day.
Seems like a cool product and the design is pretty neat too, well done!
Love this idea. I obsessively track my time to find inefficiencies and improve my work/mental health.
Question for @macgridcupcake and @wrgoto: Are there any best practices for freelancers managing multiple clients? I currently use another time tracker where I assign tasks to blocks of time and each task to a client I'm working with.
Rize seems like in the long-term it could get there, but for now do you have any tips?
@wrgoto @gregbarbosa thank you and excited to hear your feedback on Rize! One feature that might be helpful is the Projects feature we just launched. You can tag blocks of time with different projects (that could represent a client too).
Here's a blog post that goes into the feature a bit: https://blog.rize.io/blog/launch...
Here's a YouTube video demo-ing the feature too:
We had a lot of users using Rize alongside Toggl for this use case until we launched Projects. Now they only use Rize with has been nice to centralize their time tracking. Even so this is still just the first version of Projects and we know we have a lot to improve on. I'd love to hear if that covers your use case and what we can do it improve it.
@wrgoto @macgridcupcake This is awesome! It looks like it may just work. Thank you. Got it installed and will keep using it through the trial!
@wrgoto @gregbarbosa Awesome! Definitely let us know what you think and what we can do to improve! Thanks for giving Rize a shot!
LOVE!! 😍😍😍
Have been using Rize for a few weeks now, and I have to say, I LOVE it. Balancing my focus/work time and meeting time has been a challenge since COVID, but since Rize I’ve been able to make sure I’m working the right amount of hours each day, and making time for the important stuff.
I set it up in 30 seconds, and it has run automatically since then. It’s already become a core part of my toolset, and what's truly crazy is... I'm actually IMPROVING... it's working!!!!
most tools I stop using after a week or two because they just don't materially change my productivity. my productivity, feeling of satisfaction, and general happiness have all RIZE-N!!! thanks guys can't say that enough.