Meter tracks your time automatically — no timers, no manual entry. Every billable minute turns into a number in your menu bar.
Meter watches which app and window title is active every 2 seconds. When you switch from Figma to Slack to VS Code, it records all of it — silently, in the background.
Set an hourly rate on each project. Your menu bar shows $650 · 4h 20m — not abstract hours, but the real money you've earned today. Freelancers who see this demo download it instantly.
Step away for a meeting or a coffee? Meter notices you've gone quiet and pauses. When you return, it asks: keep the gap as billable, or discard it. No awkward entries to fix later.
One click in the menu bar exports the day to a clean CSV — date, project, app, start/end times, duration. Drop it into FreshBooks, Wave, or your own spreadsheet.
Everything lives in your Mac's Application Support folder. No account to create. No cloud. No server ever sees your data. The screen recording permission is used only to read window titles — it never takes a screenshot.
Add your email in Settings once. Every Monday at 9am, Meter sends a clean summary — hours and earnings broken down by project, ready to use for invoicing.
| Acme Corp | 6h 0m | £480 |
| Startup XYZ | 3h 0m | £270 |
| Side project | 1h 20m | — |
macOS 13 Ventura or later
The average freelancer billing £75/hr recovers the cost of Meter in 24 minutes of tracked time they would otherwise have forgotten to log.
If Meter isn't working for you within 30 days, email us and we'll refund in full — no questions asked.
Yes — to read window titles (e.g. which Figma file you have open). It never takes screenshots or records anything visual. You can revoke it any time in System Settings.
No. The automatic tracking APIs require access that Apple's sandbox doesn't allow. Meter ships as a notarised DMG — macOS Gatekeeper verifies it's safe before it opens.
Negligibly. Meter typically uses under 0.1% CPU and around 20MB RAM — lighter than a browser tab.
In ~/Library/Application Support/Meter/ as local JSON files. Nothing is ever sent to a server. The optional email digest sends only the summary — never raw entries.
Absolutely. Rates are optional per-project. You can use Meter purely for hours tracking and export to CSV for invoicing in your own tool.
Yes. Meter runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs, on macOS 13 Ventura and later.
Every minute you work untracked is money you won't invoice.
Download Meter — £29