GriotteYour day on a timeline
Every block of work, in colour, to the minute. Pinch to zoom down to the minute, hover a block to see its apps and windows. A block in the wrong place? Drag it onto the right project.
Private time tracking for Mac
Your time, finally clear.
Griotte quietly records what you work on, sorts your hours by client and works out what you can bill. 100 % local: no account, no server, nothing leaves your Mac.
30-day free trial, no cardmacOS 14 or laterApple Silicon and Intel
Made in France by an independent developerSigned and notarized by Apple
How it works
Nothing to type. Everything to bill.
No timer to start, no timesheet to fill in on Friday night.
01
Install and open
Griotte lives in your menu bar. No account to create, no email address to give.
02
Work as usual
In the background, Griotte notes the app in front, the open document and the website. Breaks are taken out automatically.
03
Sort, then bill
Your rules file your hours by client. The amount at your hourly or day rate is ready, rounded the way you bill.
Shortcut ⌃⌥⌘C
One shortcut. One cherry. One click.
Wherever you are, a shortcut brings up a cherry right under your pointer. The fruit says what you are working on, the leaf starts a focus session. One click, and you are back to work.
- The fruit: one slice per project. Click “Website redesign” and everything you do next counts for that client. Click the white centre to stop.
- The leaf, at the end of the stem: 30, 60 or 90 minutes of focus, or no limit. During the session, its centre shows the time left.
- Nothing else opens: the app you are working in stays in front.
- Keys 1 to 9 pick a project, Esc closes everything.
Features
Everything you need to see where the day goes.
The pictures below are real Griotte screens, with demo data.
“I’m working for…”
One click in the menu bar and everything you do next counts for that client. Start a 30, 60 or 90-minute focus session from the same place.
On-device AI · Pro
Clear rules, with Apple’s AI to help
An app, a website, a folder or a word in the title is enough to file time under the right project. For the rest, Apple’s model built into macOS suggests a category, on your Mac, without sending anything.
On-device AI · Pro
Your invoice description, already written
In the evening, “Suggest a summary” writes one sentence per project from your day. Read it, edit it, apply it: it becomes the description in your reports. Apple’s model writes it on your Mac; without it, Griotte uses your window titles.
Bring your history
Import your exports from Toggl Track, Timing or Rize, or any CSV. Preview before importing, duplicates skipped, and any import can be undone in one click.
“Welcome back!”
After time away, Griotte asks what it was: a client call, a meeting, a real break. One click, and the time counts.
Focus and breaks
A gentle nudge if a distraction creeps in during focus, and a real break suggested after an hour. Nothing is blocked: you stay in charge.
Pro
Your AI agents, without a Griotte cloud
A local MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor answer “how many hours for Dupont this month?”. It only listens on your Mac and is protected by a token.
- Apps, documents and websites. The app in front, the window title, the website — and optionally the email subject, the Terminal folder, the ChatGPT or Claude conversation.
- Clients, projects, rates. Hourly or day rate, rounding to the quarter hour or the half day, hour budgets.
- CSV reports and PDF timesheets. By month and by client, ready for your spreadsheet and your invoice.
- Public holidays. Built in for the US, France and six other countries, or taken from your Mac’s holiday calendar.
- Your meetings. Read from your Mac’s Calendar if you turn it on, counted for a client with no double counting.
- Never track. Apps, websites or title words you keep to yourself, counted as “Private”. Password managers are excluded by default.
- Billed, paid, done Pro Statuses and invoice numbers, exports to Excel, HTML and JSON.
- Switch clients with one shortcut. ⌃⌥⌘C, also from Shortcuts, Raycast or Alfred.
- Your evenings stay yours. Pause tracking in one click, or track only during your working hours.
Bill right
Bill for what you really worked.
At the end of the month, Griotte counts the working days, turns your hours into days at your day rate, applies your rounding and prepares a clean activity timesheet, ready to attach to the invoice.
22working days
6.73 dbilled
€3,537excl. tax
Example calculated by Griotte on demo data.
- Amounts excluding tax, at an hourly or day rate, project by project.
- Half days, quarter hours or no rounding: your call.
- Billable and non-billable time kept apart, then marked billed and paid (Pro).
PDF timesheet
Every 60 min
Take care of yourself
Take a break. Look into the distance.
When you are in the zone, you can stare at the screen for hours. After an hour of uninterrupted work, Griotte suggests a breather: stand up, look into the distance, drink a glass of water.
60 minof continuous work
5 minto breathe
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- Looking into the distance rests eyes that work up close all day: the simplest advice against eye strain.
- A small, discreet window, never forced on you: “+ 5 min” if you are finishing a thought, “Skip” if now is not the time.
- The break only counts if you actually step away: Griotte can tell from keyboard and mouse inactivity, nothing else.
- Every 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, or never. Breaks taken and skipped are on the dashboard.
Privacy
No server. No tracker. No surprises.
Your working day says a lot about you and your clients. So it stays on your Mac, in a single file you can export or erase whenever you like.
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accounts
No sign-up, no email needed to try it.
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servers
No activity data is sent anywhere. Ever.
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telemetry
No usage statistics, no analytics SDK.
What Griotte records
- The app in front, with its start and end time.
- The window title and the open document, if you allow Accessibility.
- The website name (github.com), for the browsers you turn on. The full address only if you ask for it.
- Your clients, projects, rules, focus sessions and breaks.
What it never records
- Your keystrokes.
- Screenshots, or the content of your documents.
- Your private browsing windows.
- The apps and websites you exclude. Password managers are excluded by default.
Two Macs? Optional iCloud sync (Pro) goes through your own iCloud account, end-to-end encrypted: Apple can’t read your window titles, documents or client names, and there is still no Griotte server.
This website follows the same rule: no cookies, an anonymous audience count run by us alone, and fonts hosted here rather than by a third party.
Read the privacy policyA tool for you, not for watching others.
Griotte measures the time of the person who uses it, for that person. No employer console, no remote reporting, no screenshots. In a studio, everyone tracks their own time and exports their summary if they want to.
Pricing
Simple pricing. A month to try.
A full 30-day trial, no credit card and no account. You only subscribe if Griotte is useful to you.
Essential
1 Mac€7 / $7/ month
€84 / $84 billed yearly, excl. VAT
- Automatic tracking of apps, documents and websites
- Zoomable timeline, drag and drop, search, notes
- Clients, projects, hourly and day rates, rounding, budgets
- Focus, breaks, “Welcome back”, end-of-call prompt
- Reports, CSV and PDF timesheet, public holidays
- Pause tracking, working hours, backups
- Import from Toggl Track, Timing, Rize or CSV
Pro
Most complete€10 / $10/ month
€120 / $120 billed yearly, excl. VAT
- Everything in Essential
- Billed / paid tracking, invoice numbers, “left to bill”
- Report templates, Excel (XLSX), HTML and JSON exports
- Advanced rules: AND, regex, hours, weekdays
- Apple’s on-device AI: classification and day summary
- Local MCP server for your AI agents
- 2 Macs, with end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync
When a subscription ends, tracking stops but your data stays readable and exportable, with no time limit. Prices exclude VAT; VAT is calculated at checkout from your country and VAT number (none outside the EU, reverse charge for EU businesses with a valid VAT number). For professionals only, 14-day money-back guarantee.
FAQ
What people ask us.
Does my data go anywhere?
No. Everything is saved in a file on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/Griotte/). Griotte has no server for your data. The only network traffic is the daily update check and the licence renewal, and neither contains any activity data. iCloud sync, if you turn it on, goes through your own iCloud, end-to-end encrypted.
Do I need an account?
No, neither for the trial nor to use the app. An email address is only asked for when you pay, by the payment provider, to send you your receipt and your licence key.
Which macOS permissions, and why?
None is required. With no permission, Griotte sees the app in front. Accessibility adds the window title and the open document. Automation, browser by browser, gives the website name. Calendar and Notifications are optional. Griotte never asks for Screen Recording.
I use Toggl, Timing or Rize: do I lose my history?
No. Export your data as CSV from your old tool, then use “Import history…” in Griotte’s Settings › Your data. Columns are detected automatically, you see a preview before importing, and every import can be undone. Still deciding? Read our Griotte vs Timing comparison.
Does the day summary send my data to an online AI?
No. It is written by Apple’s model built into macOS, on your Mac (Pro plan, macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence). Without it, Griotte builds the summary from your window titles, with no AI at all. Nothing is sent to ChatGPT, Claude or any other service.
What happens at the end of the trial?
Tracking stops if you don’t subscribe. Your data stays on your Mac, readable and exportable, with no time limit. Nothing is held hostage.
Can I export to my invoicing tool?
Yes, through files. The CSV has stable columns, Pro adds Excel, HTML and JSON exports, and the PDF timesheet can be attached to an invoice as is. There is no direct integration with invoicing software yet.
Can Griotte monitor my employees?
No, and that is not an oversight. Griotte has no admin console, sends no data to a third party and takes no screenshots. It is for tracking your own time.
Take back control of your time.
Install Griotte, work as usual for a week, and see where your hours really go.