Deylee
A time tracker for macOS that records what you worked, never how you worked.
In development · macOS 14 (Sonoma) and newer
What Deylee is
Deylee is a time-tracking app for macOS. It sits in the menu bar and keeps one timer: you open the day when you start work, it counts the hours and the breaks, and you close the day when you are done. It is built for people who are paid for their hours — contractors, consultants, agencies and in-house teams — and who need an accurate record of them without being watched.
Every entry is written to a database on your own Mac, and the app reads only from there, so once you are signed in it keeps working with no internet connection at all. You can see your history by day, week and month, correct an entry the timer got wrong, and export any month to CSV or JSON. Deylee records how long you worked and never how you worked: it takes no screenshots and logs no window titles, applications, URLs or keystrokes.
- One timer in the menu bar. Open the day, count work and breaks, close the day — nothing to configure before the first start.
- Every hour is written to SQLite on your own Mac, and the app reads only from there, so once you are signed in it keeps working with no network at all.
- No screenshots, no window titles, no URLs, no keystrokes, no activity score. There is no paid tier that changes that.
- A night shift that crosses midnight is split at the boundary and lands on the right day, through the clock change too.
- Steps away are noticed — keep the time or drop it — and a crash, a sleep or a locked screen never invents hours you did not work.
- History by day, week and month, with the month you are looking at exported to CSV or JSON.
- An account is needed to start tracking, and once you have one your hours reach your other Macs on their own.
Signing in with Google
Deylee needs an account before it will track time. You can install it and open it without one — the menu bar item, the panel and the timer are all there to look at — but pressing Start raises sign-in, and the timer begins only once that succeeds. Cancel it and nothing happens. An account is what lets the hours you record on one Mac appear on your other devices; after the first sign-in the app keeps working offline, because both your session and your hours live on your own machine.
If you choose Sign in with Google, Deylee receives only the email address and name on that Google Account. It uses them for a single purpose — to identify your account, so that the hours synced from one device are matched to the right person and shown on the next. Nothing else is requested and nothing else is used.
Deylee asks for no access to Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Contacts, Photos or any other Google service, and it never receives your Google password. What Deylee stores, what it sends and what it refuses to collect is set out in full in the privacy policy. Signing in with an email address and a password instead is equally supported, and involves Google not at all.