Compared honestly
Every tracker we could find, set beside this one.
One page each. What the other product does better, twelve facts side by side, the price over five years with the date it was checked, and who should choose which. If a fact is out of date, tell us and it will be fixed.
Daily for Mac
The closest thing to Quarter Past, asking at intervals since 2013. Records durations, not start and end times.
Quarter Past vs DailyTiming
The best automatic tracker on the Mac. Complete, because it reads what you have open. From £84 a year.
Quarter Past vs TimingRize
Watches your focused window and coaches you with AI. Mac and Windows, data on its servers, from $9.99 a month.
Quarter Past vs RizeRescueTime
The original automatic tracker, on every platform, built around distraction. From $84 a year.
Quarter Past vs RescueTimeToggl Track
The timer everyone has tried. Free for three users, excellent for teams, and only as good as your memory.
Quarter Past vs TogglTyme
The polished Apple-ecosystem timer, ten years in. Mac, iPhone, iPad and Watch. £49.99 a year.
Quarter Past vs TymeTimemator
The other Mac tracker you buy once, and cheaper than this one. It watches your files to do it. $39.
Quarter Past vs TimematorMemtime
Records everything you do, to the second, and keeps that recording on your machine. From £9 a month.
Quarter Past vs MemtimeClockify
Free for up to five people and genuinely so. Timer, auto-tracker, and screenshots on the higher plans.
Quarter Past vs ClockifyHarvest
A timer that turns into an invoice, and it talks to Claude now. Free for one person, $108 a year for teams.
Quarter Past vs HarvestTiming alternatives that don’t read your screen
A roundup: six trackers that get their record without reading what you have open, with five-year costs, and the four that do read it and why.
The roundupToggl alternatives without a timer
A roundup: five trackers that watch what you have open and two that ask, for the hour nobody started the timer, with five-year costs.
The roundupRescueTime alternatives for Mac
A roundup sorted by the reason you are leaving: a Mac app, the record on your own machine, one payment, or a timesheet instead of a focus score.
The roundupTen pages, all checked on the date each one names. If you use something not listed and want it compared, say so; the honest ones are the useful ones.
Not sure a tracker is what you need at all? Time management at work, honestly is a practical guide to eight methods and where each one breaks — written to be useful whether or not you ever download anything.
One thing that changed across the whole category in 2026. Daily, Timing, Tyme, Harvest and ManicTime all shipped a connection that lets Claude or ChatGPT read their data directly. So “works with AI” is no longer a difference worth claiming, and the table below says so for each of them. What none of them hand the assistant is an account of how good the record is: a timer cannot tell you about the afternoon you forgot it, and an automatic tracker cannot tell you which of those logged hours was actually a lunch break. Quarter Past marks every entry as measured or recalled when it is written, so the brief can say “sixty per cent of this was reconstructed” before the AI says anything at all.
The short version
Manual timers only work if you remember. Automatic trackers read your screen. Quarter Past asks, records the interval that just passed, says whether each entry was measured or recalled, and never watches. £54 once, after fourteen days free.