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! 🍻

Very sleek design! But quite expensive knowing that RescueTime does it all for free...

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?

Seems like a cool product and the design is pretty neat too, well done!

Hi, this product looks like it could be perfect for me. I love the UI and the conceptof this product. I am a sixth form student and have, for months, been looking for a time management application to use as I've realised a lot of time is wasted from day to day. I'm not too sure about the producthunt culture but would it be much to ask for a discount as it is quite hard to afford the asking price as a student?

Great idea, i like the design, looks clean.

I've been using Rize for about 5 months now and it's incredible. It's been great for helping me to figure out how I can restructure my day to actually find time for focused work. I can't wait to see how things keep evolving in the future.

Great product so far Macgill/Will. Quick question, how do you guys think about benchmarking across a team? I am just thinking if that's part of the plan. I can see myself being more productive with something like this, but could that same logic be implemented across an org, say across 50 engineers or something like that. Thanks and congrats on the launch!

I’ve been using it for weeks ... it is incredible. It would be perfect if we can track other screen like tv and or phone and sync it all up so we now when or what distract us. Even Apple screen time is not as precise as rize but it is multi screen management ! I still recommend this. Toogl killer for solo and self tracking.

This is my third week using Rize and I absolutely love it. The idea of tracking my time for personal optimisation has always been at the back of my mind, but it's only with Rize that I've finally started. I think part of me was worried at what inefficiencies I might discover, and part was the software available. I didn't want time tracking to feel like even more work, and I didn't want to feel judged by it. Rize has a beautiful UI - the visuals help to encourage better understanding and use of your time, with easy category breakdowns and daily summary reports. It doesn't feel like a chore, but healthy encouragement and optimisation. Keep it up @wrgoto @macgridcupcake 🙌

excellent time tracker seen so far

Would be interesting to see how the data derived from the user's working day can be turned into meaningful improvement for the end user.

Very nice tool. All the best!

Excellent this is what I need. UI looks super good <3

This one looks great

What would be the memory and cpu usage of this product?

I love your objectives and how you describe them! 💚 I’ll make sure to keep following where you are headed with Rize.

This has been a total lifesaver for me. 1. I DEFINITELY am not good at taking breaks on my own (Rize corrects that organically) 2. It's the most hands-off time tracking I've encountered, and I *LOVE* it for that. Even outside of a browser, it's amazing at quantifying where my time goes. 3. Gamifying my time by giving it a score makes me focus more on how I'm actually using my time (I need to keep that high Focus Score, yo) TL:DR — Amazing, hands-off, beautiful interface, and allowed me to replace all of my other time-tracking apps (it even imports my gCal events).

I signed up for Rize as an alpha user many months ago and I'm loving it! This has become an indispensable tool for me as I work on managing my many tasks and optimizing my time. I'm inherently a pretty organized person, but days would get away from me and I often felt overwhelmed by the multitude of work-streams and applications I leverage for personal and professional projects. I really appreciate the visibility and find that I'm now able to hold myself accountable and more easily iterate when needed. FWIW, Rize has been an equally helpful service during my personal and misc projects, nonprofit work, job search, and now full-time role.

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.