About
Qbserve is an automatic time tracker for Mac.
Each of us would like to spend less time on distractions. Qbserve can help with this. It tracks what you do on your Mac and provides constant feedback on your productivity. This way, you can stay focused and develop better habits.
Qbserve automatically tracks working hours and can generate invoices based on the collected data. No need to remember to start and stop time tracking.
Accurate monitoring of working hours
Qbserve integrates with macOS to give you the following capabilities
- Automatic performance analysis for more than 7,600 sites, applications and games.
- Track projects based on open web pages, documents and window titles.
- Individual logging of Slack commands and YouTube videos.
Reports and timesheets
Find out how you spend your time and improve your workflow with
- Detailed productivity reports for days, weeks and months.
- Time sheets with a brief description of the activity, timeline and notes for each hour.
- Generate invoices in 18 languages and export data to JSON and CSV.
Privacy and accessibility
Your privacy and budget are important to us
- All tracked data is stored locally on your Mac and is not transferred anywhere.
- It is possible to ignore private browser tabs or pause tracking.
- No subscription required. Qbserve costs less than most other time management software in one year.
Real-time feedback
Qbserve helps you stay focused on your work with numerous reminders so you can stay productive and avoid distractions.
Dynamic icons
Qbserve gives you a productivity score that you can always see in the menu bar. Its icon changes color to reflect your performance.
Notifications
You can set alerts to go off when you reach your goals or spend too much time on distractions. Alerts integrate with other services and applications via AppleScript, IFTTT and Zapier.
Automatic project time tracking
Qbserve simplifies time tracking for freelancers by determining billable time based on open documents and web pages.
1. Setting up project rules
Create rules to tell Qbserve when to track time for a specific project. Qbserve will only track time for a project when it detects a document path or browser address that contains a specific string (such as the project name) that you have configured.
2. Track your working hours automatically
Qbserve detects document paths in most Mac applications. It also detects web page addresses in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and some other browsers. Qbserve uses the rules you personally set for it to track time for projects.
3. Correction of collected data
At the end of the workday, you can assign undetected time inside your timesheet in less than a minute. Unnoticed screen time is generated from sites and tools where the rules you created for Qbserve cannot be applied.
4. Create detailed invoices
Invoices are created automatically based on the recorded time and you can customize them. Qbserve has many flexible invoicing options to suit your needs and 18 invoicing languages to choose from.
Flexible time management
Qbserve is built specifically for macOS and uses the operating system's capabilities to provide the most accurate time tracking for Mac users.
Browser integrationQbserve logs the sites you visit and can be configured to ignore private tabs. It detects sites in Chrome and Safari, and you can install site tracking extensions in Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera and Yandex Browser.
Qbserve also tracks YouTube videos and Reddit subscriptions separately, so you can categorize them as productive if necessary.
Idling
Downtime is determined intelligently. Tracking will remain active if you use apps and sites in the Video & TV category. Qbserve also prompts you to enter the time manually when you return to your Mac.
Export data
Collected data can be exported in JSON and CSV formats. Exports can be scheduled to repeat automatically at a specified time interval. For more information, see Exporting Temporary Sheets.
Team work tracking
Qbserve logs time spent in Slack teams so you can get accurate time reports, whether you're chatting with friends or work colleagues.