Two things live on this page. A calculator that totals a week of shifts, breaks and overtime right here in the browser. And a Mac app that does the same job every day on its own and keeps the result in a database on your machine.
The calculator works in any browser today. The app is not released yet: Apple Silicon Macs first, Windows on the roadmap.
Punch times in, unpaid break minutes out. Overnight shifts are handled, and anything past 40 hours gets split out for you. The arithmetic runs in this page, so there is nothing to submit and nothing to install.
| Day | Start | End | Break (min) | Worked |
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Decimal hours are what most payroll systems ask for: 7 hours 30 minutes is 7.50, not 7.30. The break column simply subtracts whatever you type, so enter the minutes your employer does not pay for and leave paid breaks alone. The 40 hour split is plain weekly arithmetic. Your contract, state or province may compute overtime a different way, so treat this as a total to check against your paycheque, not as legal advice.
Search for a work hours tracker and you get three kinds of answer. They are not wrong, they just answer different questions.
Totals one week and forgets it the moment you close the tab. Useful for checking a paycheque, useless for the question "how many hours did I work in March".
Good for punching in and out on a job site. Your history lives in whatever account the developer runs, which is why both app stores now print a privacy label next to the download button.
The workspace belongs to whoever pays for it. An administrator can see it, change it, and close it. That is the deal, and it is fine until you leave the job.
There is a fourth case that almost nothing serves: you want your own copy. Not instead of your employer's system, alongside it. The US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division publishes a timesheet app of its own for workers, which tells you keeping your own record is ordinary practice rather than paranoia. TimePrivate is built for that case. Being honest about the limit: it cannot stop other software on your Mac from watching you. It simply is not one of those programs, and it has no manager view, no screenshots and no keystroke logging to turn on.
A calculator answers today. A tracker answers "what did I bill Acme in Q2". If you need the second one, a bookmarked calculator will quietly cost you hours a month.
Look for CSV export before you type a single entry. Anything that can only print a report is holding your history hostage in a polite way.
Check whether there is an admin role at all. If a dashboard exists, someone can be given the keys to it later, whatever today's settings say.
With most cloud trackers the account closes and the history goes with it. Ask where the file lives. If the answer is "our servers", that is your answer.
Trains, planes, client sites with locked-down guest networks. A tracker that needs a connection to record a timer is a tracker that loses time.
Shift workers want punch in and punch out. Desk workers forget to start timers and need something automatic. Buying the wrong shape is the usual reason people quit a tracker in week two.
Where TimePrivate is the wrong pick: if you need one dashboard showing your team's hours, approval flows for other people's timesheets, or payroll runs for staff, look elsewhere. Those are the features it deliberately does not have. Same answer if you are on Windows or Linux today. Mac ships first.
Automatic tracking notices which apps you are in and which browser domains you visit, then maps them to projects using rules you write once. App names and domains, never screenshots and never keystrokes. Forget to start a timer and nothing is lost.
Each evening it drafts the timesheet from what it saw and hands it to you. Accept it, edit it, or throw it away. Nothing books itself into your week without you.
Hours land in a local database on your Mac. The app makes no network requests: no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports, no account to create. Export the lot to CSV whenever you like, and if you want it on a second Mac, optional sync writes end to end encrypted files into a folder you choose.
Divide the minutes by 60. 15 minutes is 0.25, 30 minutes is 0.50, 45 minutes is 0.75. So 7 hours 45 minutes is 7.75 hours, not 7.45. The calculator above shows both, because payroll almost always wants the decimal and you almost always think in minutes.
It depends where you work and what your contract says. The common pattern is that a long unpaid meal break comes out of the total while short paid breaks stay in. The calculator does not guess: it subtracts exactly the minutes you type in the break column, so enter the time you are not paid for.
Yes. If the end time is earlier than the start time, it treats the shift as crossing midnight and adds the missing hours. A 22:00 start and a 06:00 end reads as eight hours.
Nothing stops you keeping your own log alongside whatever system your employer uses, and the Department of Labor publishes a timesheet app aimed at exactly that. In TimePrivate your copy is a local database plus CSV export, so the record is a file you hold rather than a row in someone else's account.
No. It is not released, so there is nothing to download and nothing to pay for today. The waitlist is the whole offer: one email the day it opens. The planned pricing is $9 a month or $79 a year, subscription only.
It has no online mode to lose. The app makes no network requests at all, so tracking on a plane behaves exactly like tracking at your desk. Optional sync is the one thing that touches a folder, and it writes end to end encrypted files your cloud provider cannot read.
Not yet. Mac ships first, on Apple Silicon, and Windows is on the roadmap. The calculator on this page runs in any browser on any operating system.
Use the calculator as long as you like. When you want it to happen by itself, get on the list.
Not released yet. Leave your email and we will write to you the day it opens.