Compared honestly
Quarter Past vs Memtime
Memtime records everything you do and, unusually for an automatic tracker, keeps that recording on your machine. Then it asks you to turn it into entries. Quarter Past asks first, and records only the answer.
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What Memtime is
Memtime runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and automatically records every program, document and meeting you touch, down to the second, in the background. You then drag that activity into time entries, with AI suggesting which project each block belongs to. It connects to Jira, Asana, ClickUp, QuickBooks, Clockify, Zoho Projects and Microsoft Teams among more than a hundred others.
The claim worth crediting: Memtime says the automatically recorded activity is kept offline on your device and never uploaded, and that you can erase it at any time. That is a real difference from most automatic trackers, and it is worth saying so on a page like this.
What Memtime does better than Quarter Past:
- Windows and Linux as well as macOS, on unlimited devices.
- A complete record, to the second, without you answering anything.
- The automatic activity record stays offline on your device.
- More than a hundred integrations, including Jira, Asana and QuickBooks.
Side by side
| Memtime | Quarter Past | |
|---|---|---|
| How it tracks | Automatically records every program, document and meeting in the background, to the second; you then assign that activity to projects, with AI suggesting where each block belongs | Asks what you have been doing every 5 to 60 minutes; one tap logs the interval that just passed, to the minute, with a start and an end |
| Reads your screen | Yes. Recording the programs and documents in use is how it works, though Memtime says what it records stays on your device | Never. No screen-recording or accessibility permissions |
| Where your data lives | Memtime says the automatic activity record stays offline on your device; the entries you create are what reaches its integrations | A file on your Mac. No account, no server, no sync |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS and Linux, on unlimited devices | macOS 10.15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel |
| Price | Subscription. Basic £11 per user a month billed annually; £13 quarterly, or £9 on a two-year term. Connect and Premium cost more | £54, once |
| Cost over five years | £660 on Basic billed annually | £54 |
| Trial | 14 days, no card | 14 days, no card |
| Says how each entry was captured | Everything is measured automatically. Nothing is asked, so nothing is marked as recalled | Yes: every entry says whether it was measured live or recalled later |
| Plan against actual | No plan against actual in the Quarter Past sense | Yes: a weekly plan set against the record, difference shown, nothing scored |
| What an AI gets | AI suggests which project a block of recorded activity belongs to. No written brief, and no MCP server found | A written brief you read before you send it: the fortnight, the plan against the record, and how much of it was measured rather than recalled. You choose the assistant and the moment |
| Export | Reports, and more than a hundred integrations | CSV, and a full backup file |
| Teams | Yes | No. One person, one Mac |
Prices from memtime.com/pricing shown in GBP, and the offline-storage claim from memtime.com. Quarter Past facts from this site. Subscriptions are judged forwards: five years is what you will actually have paid.
Which one, honestly
Choose Memtime if
- You are on Windows or Linux, or your team is split across them.
- You want a complete automatic record but will not accept it leaving your machine.
- You need time pushed into Jira, Asana or QuickBooks.
Choose Quarter Past if
- You do not want every document and meeting recorded in the first place.
- You want one payment. Five years of Memtime Basic is about £660.
- You want the record to say which entries were measured and which were reconstructed.
- You want a brief an AI can read that is honest about how complete the fortnight is.
What Quarter Past does not do
So that this page is worth trusting:
- Mac only. No Windows, no phone, no web version yet.
- One person. No team view, no shared projects, no manager reports.
- No invoicing, no integrations, no Zapier. It exports a CSV and stops there.
- Not on the Mac App Store, by choice; it is signed and notarised with Apple and downloaded from this site.
Try it for a fortnight. Decide then.
Free for fourteen days, no card and no account. If it earns its place, it is £54 once, paid from inside the app. If not, nothing to cancel.
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