Where does all your time go? If we are talking about the time you spend on your smartphone or at the computer, then
Note that this is not about complex andcomprehensive tools like Toggl or Hours, which compile detailed statistics of your time spent. If you are interested in optimizing your life as a whole, then these applications will be an excellent choice and you can stop at this paragraph. We will focus directly on tools that analyze data from your mobile devices.
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Perhaps the main problem here isthat for the correct operation of such applications you need to give them access to system data. Only in this way is it possible to obtain information about the time spent in a particular program. That is why we recommend that you double-check what the application is trying to access and use only the links from this article.
Quality Time (Android | Free)
Today Quality Time can be calledone of the most thoughtful and well-proven time trackers for Android. It’s easy to guess why the number of downloads of the application has exceeded a million: it is easy to use, the interface is intuitive, and the user sees exactly the information he came here for. Quality Time can show both general information about application usage and statistics for individual programs – and even note how often you launch a particular application.
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There are many other features available here as well.In particular, you can set up notifications for yourself so that your phone warns you if you've been on Instagram for too long. You can also set yourself different profiles – for example, office or family, – and determine which applications will not be available while you are using them.
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App Usage (Android | shareware)
App Usage is largely similar in functionality toQuality Time and allows you to get detailed statistics about application usage – both during the day and, say, over the last month. App Usage also has the ability to add a small counter on top of other active applications, which gives quick access to the main functions of the service.
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In general, the possibilities for monitoringThere is less app usage here than in Quality Time, but you can still, for example, set notifications in case you use apps non-stop for a set amount of time. Interestingly, here all your applications are distributed between two tabs:EstablishedAndDeleted. Thus, you can easily find and reinstall the application that was uninstalled for some reason, if you decide that this will not interfere with your productivity.
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Moment (iOS | shareware)
iOS lives up to the title of a secure system and does notallows third-party apps to request access to app usage data, but Moment developers have found a way around this limitation. When launched, the application will ask for permission to take screenshots of the page where battery discharge statistics are indicated. (Located in the menuBattery=>Settings) This is not a fully automated way and not the most accurate, however it is the best of what is available for iOS.
Moment also collects statistics aboutusing a smartphone. Of the paid features – a kind of parental control that adds tabs to the application where you can view statistics on the smartphones of your family members. There is even a Phone Coach option designed to stop you from constantly being on your phone. Of course, you can’t do without some willpower, but this is a good impetus for further changes.
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Instant (Android and iOS | from $ 2 / month)
If you are looking for an application that is available foriPhone and Android, we recommend paying attention to Instant. Using the trick with screenshots, which we already talked about, it is able to estimate the time you spend on your smartphone as a whole, and not just the minutes spent on specific applications. Unlike other programs on this list, you can’t do without a paid subscription here. An account in Instant will cost you $ 2 monthly.
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In this case, you will get much more than justSmartphone and app usage tracker: Instant will give you all the information it can get, including how much sleep you're getting, what places you're visiting, and how much you're walking. All this is provided in the form of reports and a system of personal goals. The main idea of the developers – make you spend less time on your smartphone and more – for real life.
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RescueTime (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux | shareware)
RescueTime helped people analyze themaddiction to websites and apps before time management became popular. Until now, this service remains one of the best both on Android and on computers. It lets you see which sites and apps you spend the most time on in simple, clearly organized reports. Unlike many similar services that want to force you to improve your performance and almost shame users, RescueTime can simply provide the statistics you need.
In RescueTime, you can even tell the appwhich sites and apps are truly useful for you, and which are just a waste of time. The service is also able to calculate this automatically. After such training, the reports will be more useful than the usual listing of programs and minutes. Alert notifications and more detailed reports require a premium account – it costs $9/month.
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WhatPulse (Windows, macOS, Linux | shareware)
Programs for tracking frequency of usecertain applications on a computer are not so widespread – at least if we are not talking about corporate computers, – but WhatPulse does its job perfectly. If you decide to entrust your personal data to the application, you will receive impressive statistics – down to which part of the screen you click on most often.
Users with a premium account ($1.5 per month) additionally receive beautiful graphs with all the information. In the free version, data is provided in the form of regular tables. This application will also tell you which programs are spending the most of your traffic – and sometimes the results are not the most obvious. What is missing here, perhaps, is only statistics about activity on certain sites.
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Webtime Tracker (Chrome Extension | Free)
Find out what your time on the Internet is spent on (byat least if you're on Chrome) with this browser extension that turns your data into engaging graphs and reports. With the help of Webtime Tracker, you can track how the traffic volume has changed in different months and weeks, get information about the sites you visit most often, with an accuracy of the day, and also view statistics for the entire period of using this extension.
In addition to analytical tools, it alsothere are smart elements. For example, it automatically pauses the tracker if you don't do anything for a long enough time – Let’s say you opened an article, but didn’t read it, but went off to hang out your laundry. It’s also nice that the developers ensure that all collected information is stored only locally and is not transferred anywhere.
For other browsers there are no equally powerful andconvenient alternatives. However, if you use Firefox, Mind the Time – Its functionality is reduced compared to Webtime Tracker, but overall it can be called the best for Firefox.
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