RescueTime
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | RescueTime, Inc | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
For the past 10 years, hundreds of thousands of people have used the RescueTime desktop app to accurately track their digital time, build better habits, block distractions, and become more focused and productive.
FEATURES:
* Invisible productivity and time tracking for your digital life
RescueTime for iOS helps you understand and manage your time spent on digital devices. Paired with the free RescueTime desktop app, you get a full picture of your digital time, wherever you are. Discover what desktop applications you use the most and how much time you spend on specific websites. Your time is automatically categorized by productivity level, so you can see how your device usage affects your attention, work patterns, and goals. RescueTime supports macOS, Windows, and Linux desktops, and the iOS app can be linked with all of them.
Note: at this time, iOS has no screen time wellness features available to app developers. RescueTime cannot measure your iOS screen time yet.
* For New Users
Our app is designed to work in conjunction with the free RescueTime desktop app. Once you create a new account, you’ll receive guidance on getting RescueTime set up and working for you.
* Keep all your daily goals front and center to help build better habits
Want to spend more time writing and designing? Lower your time spent on social media? All your RescueTime goals are front and center in the iOS app, so you can get a quick view of how you’re doing and stay on track.
* Set goals to help control your desktop screen time and avoid burnout
Whether you want to cut hours or minutes from your daily computer time, RescueTime for iOS can help. Get an accurate view of how much time you’re spending each day and then set custom goals based on your personal targets. We’ll notify you in real-time if you go over.
* Weekly reports on your productivity
Each week, we’ll send you a weekly summary report of how your time was spent. Full reports and charts–along with goals, alerts, and lots of other features–are available via the RescueTime web app. Privacy options let you control exactly what gets tracked.
* Developer Notes: Help us Improve
If you have ANY issues or questions, please contact us via the help system, or send email to [email protected] and give us a chance to help you.
Reviews
Pointless battery drain
cosmocrazy
App does nothing that iOS built in “Screen Time” app does not do and RescueTime does not even match Screen Time. ScreenTime says I used 2h 55m today and RescueTime says 2h 30m. RescueTime constantly uses 5% of my daily battery life too according to my battery usage from the last 10 days. Yes I understand location services is the only way to measure this but this price of 5% is too high for the benefit. Optimize it more. Uninstalling.
Only works with battery draining GPS tracking ALWAYS on
Jamietoo
I DO NOT get why they feel the need to track my location at all times, just to track what apps I'm using on my phone.??? I tried it for 2 days and it just drained my battery nonstop. You guys need to fix this. You don't need to know where I am at every moment of the day. That needs to be an OPTION, that most people wouldn't want anyway. Trash app, don't use this until they get it together.
No Breakdown of App Use
Skevoso
Deleting until they can provide a breakdown of app usage. The big draw for Rescue Time is logging productive/unproductive time during the work day. But this app can’t tell you the difference between Facebook hours and reprint reading hours. Also, despite their claims, I can see absolutely no need for this app to have to track my location. I don’t care where I am or how many “pick ups” I have. Just tell me the apps I use and if the time spent on the device is productive or not. The computer app is great on Macs. This mobile app is useless in its current state.
Location Tracking a Major Hurdle, Needs Better Info Management
gtangjr
I've read enough of the developer's responses to understand why they need access to my location, but it still doesn't make it okay. I don't even give my wife this much insight into my whereabouts (don't worry, I'm a good husband). It's extremely invasive and the tradeoff so far has proven unworthy. That is to say, the actual data gleaned is pretty rudimentary. Screentime, with the advantage of being able to access the OS in many ways that third-party devs cannot, is far more useful on iOS. Plus, it's very unclear how the dev is storing and using this location information. I don't know if it's being sold, viewed by the dev (even for optimization purposes), whether its encrypted in any way or can be tied to a specific user, how the dev responds to law enforcement requests as a policy, whether they could change their mind about selling the info if they aren't already doing so, etc. That aside, a good example of poor insights is my inability to categorize the items in the Uncategorized section of my report. Perhaps my subscription isn't high enough for this feature? Seems ridiculous, as it was quite expensive. The macOS version of RescueTime is far more useful, but obviously macOS is gives third parties far more access to the APIs needed to operate effectively. Still, it's no excuse for not making the iOS version as powerful as possible (better reporting, editing, Shortcuts and automation support and workflows, etc.) to offset as much of the grossness of the very personal access required as they can. As it stands now, however, I have little intention of keeping this app on my iOS devices in the future.
Not working
YEETBOIIIIIIIIIII
Measures time by the time between “picking up you phone and putting it down” and not by usage. So this will count movement somethings as being on you phone for 6 hours, compared to the 2 that my iPhone says. Just use you iPhones built in screen time and that is a true time rescuer.
Useful app that offers useful insight on my productivity
Fredrickrockson
Thanks for the hardwork for making this app available. So far it's good out of the box. But someway somehow my mobile time always show as 0h|0m. Not really a problem to me since I mostly work with my Mac,but it would nice if the mobile time is accurate
Love the Desktop app, mobile app needs some work
dfpcmaia
I love using my desktop RescueTime, but... 1- The iOS app doesn’t count time correctly. 2- There should be a separation between tablet and phone. A lot of people use the iPad as a productivity device, so to me it doesn’t make sense to put my iPhone and iPad time together.
Not useful yet
littlejopeep
This doesn’t track any details of phone use. Was so excited to use, but I deleted it within the day because it is not helpful. Hopefully in the future this will be worth it, but for now will stick to the desktop site and putting in the offline time.
