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Opt-in — and it stays that way

Productivity metrics that the person, not the manager, turns on

App Tracker shows real-time application-usage and focus metrics — but only for people who switch it on, and only as the aggregate patterns that help a team work better. It's built for self-awareness and capacity planning, not surveillance, and on a self-hosted deployment the data never leaves your servers.

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Consent first

Off by default; each person opts in for themselves

Nothing is tracked until an individual turns App Tracker on for their own account, and they can pause or stop it at any moment. There is no admin switch that enables it for someone else — consent is the on-ramp, by design.

  • Off by default, enabled per person
  • No admin override to track someone without consent
  • Pause or stop tracking instantly, any time
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Aggregate, not surveillance

Patterns and focus, not a keystroke log

App Tracker reports the shape of the day — focus time, app categories, context-switching — not a minute-by-minute record of someone's screen. The framing is capacity and self-awareness, so the metrics inform planning rather than police people.

  • Category-level usage and focus metrics, not keystrokes
  • Built for self-awareness and capacity planning
  • Configurable categories and exclusions per person
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Your infrastructure

Self-hosted means the data stays yours

On a self-hosted deployment, usage data lives on your own servers and never reaches a third party. Admins configure retention and what's collected, so the policy matches your team's agreement rather than a vendor's defaults.

  • Self-hosted: data never leaves your infrastructure
  • Admin-configurable retention and collection scope
  • Pairs with worklogs for a fuller picture of time
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Consent, always

Recording and transcription are off by default, opt-in per room, and visibly indicated to every participant.

Encrypted

Media is encrypted in transit; recordings and transcripts are encrypted at rest in your workspace.

You set retention

Admins choose how long recordings, transcripts, and summaries live — or delete any of them instantly.

What sold the team was that nobody could turn it on for someone else. People opted in because it shows them their own focus patterns, and we use the aggregates for capacity planning — not for watching anyone.
Hannah WexfordPeople Lead, Brightfold

FAQ

Questions, answered

Can a manager track someone without their consent?
No. App Tracker is off by default and only an individual can enable it for their own account. There is no admin switch to turn it on for someone else, and anyone can pause or stop it at any time.
Is this surveillance?
No. It reports aggregate patterns — focus time, app categories, context-switching — not keystrokes or a minute-by-minute screen log. It's built for self-awareness and capacity planning, not monitoring people.
Where does the usage data live?
In your workspace. On a self-hosted deployment it stays entirely on your own infrastructure and never reaches a third party. Admins set retention and what's collected.
How is it different from RescueTime?
RescueTime is a separate account a person sets up alone. App Tracker is built into the same office as your work and time tracking, opt-in per person, with collection scope and retention your admins configure to match a team agreement.
Is App Tracker included in every plan?
It's built into Remote Desk and included on every plan, including Free. Plans differ in history limits, never in whether the capability exists.

Insight people choose, on infrastructure you control

App Tracker is opt-in, aggregate, and included on every plan — turn it on for yourself, or never at all.