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Quarter Past asks what you’re working on. Every fifteen minutes.

Everything here may be quoted as written. To try the app, download it: the fourteen-day trial is the same for everyone. For anything else, or a conversation with the founder: hello@quarterpast.app, answered within a working day.

Released 15 September 2026 · Version 2.2.1 · For Mac

The description, at three lengths

One sentence Quarter Past is a Mac app that asks what you are working on every fifteen minutes and logs the quarter-hour that just passed, so you end the day with an honest record without ever having remembered to start a timer.

One paragraph Quarter Past lives in the Mac menu bar and speaks up every fifteen minutes. One tap answers it, and the answer is recorded against the interval that has just gone by rather than the one to come, so forgetting to press start costs nothing. It never reads the screen, documents or web addresses: everything it knows, the user told it in a tap. It works entirely offline with no account and no server, keeps its data in a file the owner can read and export, and at the end of a week can write a brief for Claude or ChatGPT that sets what was planned against what happened. It costs £54, paid once, after a fourteen-day trial that needs no card.

Three facts It asks instead of watching. Answering logs the time behind you, not ahead of you. It writes a brief an AI can read.

Facts that may be stated

Name: Quarter Past
What it is: Personal time tracking for the Mac, by prompt rather than by timer or by screen-reading
Platform: macOS 10.15 or later. One universal build for Apple silicon and Intel
Version: 2.2.1, 15 September 2026. Signed and notarised with Apple, so macOS reports it as checked; updates arrive inside the app
Download: quarterpast.app/download, about 7 MB
Price: £54, one payment, one Mac, movable between machines. Fourteen-day free trial, no card. Not a subscription
Payment: Through Lemon Squeezy, which handles VAT and sales tax as merchant of record
Prompt interval: Every 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 60 minutes, with quiet hours and days
Privacy: No screen recording or accessibility permissions. No account, no sync, no server. The record is a local file
Licence rule: An expired trial or licence never blocks reading, editing, analysing or exporting existing data. Only recording new time stops
Also in the box: A walkthrough on first open; a weekly plan set against the record with the difference shown and nothing scored; a written analysis brief for a language model; CSV export; six interface styles
Built with: Tauri, so the app is a few megabytes rather than a few hundred
Made by: SeeForth Services Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 09793300
Founder: Lawrence Seaforth
Contact: hello@quarterpast.app

There are no customer numbers, ratings, testimonials or press mentions to quote. The app was released in September 2026 and we would rather you said so than guessed.

Images

Real screenshots of a real seeded day. Use them uncropped or cropped, at any size.

Quarter Past running on a Mac: a timer on Riverside at 47 minutes, six hours thirty-two minutes of an eight-hour day accounted for, and forty-five minutes at lunch left deliberately unaccounted.

The day, Ledger styleDownload PNG

This week's plan in the app: Riverside, four hours two minutes of a twelve-hour target. Keep admin down, one hour of three. Finish the Q3 tender, marked not tracked separately.

The plan against the recordDownload PNG

The same app and the same day in the Glass style: the identical timer, totals and projects, rendered in a bright blue interface.

The same afternoon, Glass styleDownload PNG

Share card: Quarter Past asks what you're working on, every fifteen minutes.

Share card, 1200 by 630Download PNG

The icon is above at 512 pixels: download PNG. A sixty-second screen recording of a quarter-hour, start to finish, is available on request.

Why it exists, in the founder’s words

Time is the one thing none of us can get more of. It goes quickly, and that is exactly why it deserves managing.

When I had business coaching, my coach asked me to track my time: write down each thing I did in the office, on a sheet. Before every session I struggled to bring that sheet up to date, and I would arrive with a reconstruction instead of a record. That is where the idea came from: a time tracker that works for you, rather than one you work for.

The other thing that went wrong will be familiar to anyone who has tried. The first day or two go brilliantly. Then you forget once, and the moment you have fallen behind you want to give up. So Quarter Past asks. If you have not recorded anything, it asks what you have been doing, and one tap catches you up. It is built to make staying on track as easy as possible and falling behind almost impossible.

It was born out of that pain, in the hope of helping a lot of us with the most valuable thing we have, which is our time.

Lawrence Seaforth, founder. Quotable as written.

Comparisons that are fair to make

Manual timers are honest but leaky. Automatic trackers are complete but read your screen. Quarter Past is the third thing.

Complete recordReads your screen

Manual timers (Toggl, Tyme) Only if you remember No

Automatic trackers (Timing, Rize) Yes Yes — apps, documents, URLs

Quarter Past Yes, by asking No

On price: over five years Tyme costs £249.95 and Timing £420 on their annual plans, against £54 once. Competitor prices checked 14 September 2026; please re-check before quoting them.

What it is not

Not an automatic tracker

It never reads the screen, documents or web addresses. That is the whole position, not a setting.

Not a team timesheet or an invoicing suite

One person, one Mac. It exports a CSV for whatever does the invoicing.

Not a subscription

One payment. Updates are free. The licence never expires and never locks anyone out of their own record.

Download it, free for 14 days Email the founder