Best RescueTime alternative for Mac

Where RescueTime wins

RescueTime is a time tracker first. It runs quietly in the background, logs every app and site you touch without you starting anything, sorts the day into productive and distracting, and turns weeks and months of that into dashboards, a productivity score and a weekly email. If the question is where the time actually went, RescueTime answers it better than almost anything, and Focuh does not attempt that: there is no passive logging and no historical report. RescueTime also runs on Mac, Windows, Linux and Android and syncs the record between them, so one account can follow you from a PC to a MacBook to a phone. Its FocusTime feature can block distracting websites during a set window, on the paid plan. If hands-off measurement and long-term trends are the whole job, RescueTime is the sharper tool.

Where Focuh wins

Focuh is an ADHD todo list for Mac and web. Today sits next to Google Calendar. Week is the week. Loops are standing to-dos with no date: you pull a copy onto today and the loop stays. Goals are the one win for the horizon. Blocking is part of the focus session, not a report you read afterwards: pick the task, start the timer, and the blocklist holds until you stop. On Mac that blocklist is enforced at the system level, so it covers Safari, Firefox, Arc and Chrome at once, and it covers apps as well, so Slack, Discord and Messages go quiet too. RescueTime has no todo list and no calendar view, so the plan for the day lives somewhere else, and its blocking is a website feature on a paid tier rather than something tied to the task in front of you. Focuh syncs the same list between the Mac app and the web app, so the plan is there on any machine even where the Mac blocker is not.

Price: RescueTime has a limited free Lite tier, with FocusTime blocking, full history and detailed reports on the paid Premium subscription. Focuh is free. Early beta. No subscription.

Who should pick which

Pick RescueTime if you want automatic tracking you never have to start, reports and trends over months, coverage across Windows, Linux and Android as well as Mac, and you already have a list and a calendar you like. Pick Focuh if you are on Mac and the leak is deciding the day up front: you need Today next to GCal, loops that wait until you pull them, and a blocker that holds across every browser and app on the machine during a session. Some people run both. RescueTime for the weekly report on where the time went, Focuh for the everyday session where knowing what to work on matters as much as the block.

Want the full side-by-side, with the feature table and FAQ? Read Focuh vs RescueTime.