Who makes this
One developer, and a tracker he wanted to exist.
Deylee is built by Muhammad Faiz Raza. Not a team, not a startup with a runway. One person who was paid by the hour, was tracked by software he disliked, and decided the two things a tracker has to do could be done without the third thing they all do.
That matters for a practical reason as much as a romantic one: every promise on this site is kept or broken by one person, and there is nobody to hide behind when a claim stops being true. So the claims are written narrow enough to keep.
The shape of it
- Built by
- One person
- First build
- 8 Aug 2026
- Written in
- Swift, SwiftUI
- Dependencies
- Zero
- Investors
- None
- Analytics
- None
Not notarised yet, because notarisation needs a paid Apple account and this is not a funded product. Said plainly here.
Why it exists
Two people need a time tracker and confusing them is how every one of these products goes wrong. The person doing the work needs a record that is accurate and does not make them feel watched. The person paying needs to know where the hours went, to invoice, to cost a project, to run payroll. Historically you could serve one and tax the other. Deylee is a bet that the overlap is real and currently empty.
The thing that is refused
An admin control that turns screen capture on for somebody else. Remote enablement, an enforced policy, a report showing a manager who has it switched off. Every one of those converts a tool a person chose into a tool used on them. The answer is no, and it stays no at any contract value.
The thing that is never built
Keystroke or mouse logging. Activity scoring. Idle-faking detection. Anything that ranks people against each other. If a deal depends on one of these, the deal does not happen.
The rule underneath
Nothing leaves your machine that you did not choose to send. Anything that widens what leaves the machine can only ship as something you switch on yourself, off by default, revocable by you alone.
Being honest about what this is not, yet
A one-person product should say its limits out loud, so nobody discovers them at the worst moment. These are the current ones.
Not notarised. macOS warns on first launch, and you have to allow it deliberately.
Not a system of record. Keep your own copy of anything you are paid for. The arithmetic is tested; the product is young.
Company accounts are not built. One person, one Mac, one timer is the whole of what ships today.
No self-service delete for synced hours. Ask and it is done by hand, with a confirmation.
macOS only. The core is free of Apple frameworks, so other clients can sit on it later, but they do not exist today.