RescueTime

What it is for

RescueTime is an automatic productivity-analytics desk: it logs apps and sites in the background, sorts them into Focus Work / Other Work / Neutral columns, and Focus is $7/month billed annually ($9/month). Use it when the job is hours the tracker files at a public $, not when you need Rize’s Basic $9.99 Dashboard only.

Soft-note: Focus $7 / $9 + Timesheets+Focus $12 / $15 + Team Focus $10 / $12 per user + a free Lite fallback. Distinct from Rize, Timing, and Toggl Track.

What makes it unique: the cover is RescueTime’s official how-it-works still (Focus Work / Other Work / Neutral activity columns plus the weekly dashboard collage) from assets.rescuetime.com how-it-works@2x — not a wordmark. Soft-note: marketing collage + play button, real report chrome. The Focus Work / Other Work / Neutral cluster itself is ops of the report.

Key features

• Activity columns — Focus Work / Other Work / Neutral rows (cover still; dashboard help). One desk. Cover columns sit here.
• Automatic tracking — apps and websites in the background (how it works). A log, not a Focus tile.
• Focus Sessions — block distracting sites and apps (pricing). A session, not a $7 meter.
• Reports — activity / productivity / category / highlight (pricing; apps report). A report, not Get started.
• Timesheets — client / project / task logging on the Timesheets+Focus card (pricing). A timesheet, not Enterprise.
• Goals & alerts — daily target + Focus zone (pricing). A goal, not SSO.

Start trial / Upgrade are CTAs (not desks). Focus / Timesheets $ stay in Pricing. There is no AI extra to drop.

Who it's for

Best fit: people who will stay on Lite while they read a first Focus / Other / Neutral column, then pay Focus at $7/mo annual — then Timesheets+Focus at $12 when they need client hours, not Toggl’s Free $0 timer first unless they want a start/stop desk.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from rescuetime.com/pricing plus rescuetime.com. Soft-note: the live cards print Focus and Timesheets + Focus (the older Solo / Solo+ names are not on the HTML we fetched).

• Lite — free fallback after cancel / failed payment. FAQ: paid plans revert to Lite. Lite lacks the full Focus Sessions / report set of the paid Focus card.
• Focus (individual) — $7/month billed annually ($84/yr) or $9/month.
• Timesheets + Focus (individual) — $12/month billed annually ($144/yr) or $15/month.
• Team Focus — $10/user/month billed annually ($120/yr) or $12/user/month.
• Team Timesheets + Focus — $16/user/month billed annually ($192/yr) or $18/user/month.
• 14-day trial on paid plans. Confirm checkout; RescueTime’s FAQ says they do not add sales tax / VAT on the page we fetched.

Limitations / costs

• Lite is not Solo+. Full Focus Sessions and the paid report set sit on Focus / Timesheets+Focus.
• An automatic tracker, not a solo Pomodoro. You install the app; it is not Session’s 25:00 timer.
• The product is not OSS. We omit a GitHub CTA rather than invent a product repo.

Alternatives

• Rize — an automatic time tracker when you want Basic $9.99/mo annual, not RescueTime’s Focus / Other / Neutral columns.
• Timing — an automatic Mac timesheet when you want Professional $108/yr, not a cross-platform Focus Session.
• Toggl Track — a start/stop timer when you want Free $0 / Starter $9, not background app rows.

Official tutorial

Official RescueTime channel video: End Your Day Feeling in Control: How RescueTime Focus Transforms Your Productivity (oEmbed author: RescueTime). First-party Focus intro; the activity-column still is the cover. We also resolved RescueTime Demo (pkujMgNI23M) on the same channel. We searched @RescueTimeOfficial (200) and @rescuetime (200). Homepage embeds the same Focus film.

Written path: rescuetime.com/pricing plus dashboard help and apps & websites report.

Website

https://www.rescuetime.com/

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is RescueTime’s official how-it-works still (Focus / Other / Neutral columns in the collage) from assets.rescuetime.com. Dollars checked on rescuetime.com/pricing (Focus $7/$9; Timesheets+Focus $12/$15; Team Focus $10/$12; Team Timesheets+Focus $16/$18; Lite free). Tutorial oEmbed author: RescueTime (@RescueTimeOfficial). No invented GitHub.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.