An automatic time tracker for Mac. It runs from the menu bar, notes every app, window and meeting locally, then drafts the time entries you'd bill for you to approve.
Free with your own API key · 14-day Pro trial · No account needed
The timeline shows your day as it happened, sampled every 5 seconds: each app session, meeting and break. Zoom into a messy morning, or flip to the digest and see the day summed per app and project. Away time is detected. Personal browsing is marked and stays private.
When you ask, Glossa reads the day and drafts time entries: grouped by client, written in plain language, streaming in while it works. They're suggestions, not bookkeeping. Every draft cites the activity it's based on, minutes are capped by that evidence, and nothing reaches a timesheet without your approval.
A lightweight native sampler notes the front-most app and window title every 5 seconds, into a SQLite file on your Mac that you can open yourself. Idle time is never billed, and password managers are excluded from capture by default.
One day's summary is processed by Glossa AI, which drafts entries in seconds. Personal browsing is filtered out before anything leaves your machine.
Review each draft against the exact activity it cites. Approve, then export to the tools you already use. Or send a clean PDF invoice straight from Glossa, with minimum billing applied.
Want the full walkthrough, permissions and all? Read how Glossa works
No cloud database, no account required to run, no telemetry. The only thing that ever leaves your Mac is one day's summarised activity, and only when you press Analyze. On the free tier your own key sends it straight to your AI provider. On the paid tier it passes through Vercel AI Gateway to Anthropic under their API terms. I keep no copy, because I run no server to keep one on.
Your captured day lives in a SQLite file you can open with any tool. Back it up, inspect it, delete it. It's yours.
Anything matching your personal-activity list is stripped on your Mac before the summary is built: Facebook, Netflix, VG and ten more by default, and you can edit the list. Whole apps can be excluded from capture entirely.
Prefer your own AI key? The free tier runs on it forever, and your summary never routes through me at all.
Consultancy? Team is $10/seat/month billed yearly, minimum 5 seats, with everything in Pro for everyone. Talk to me
Nothing, until you press Analyze. Then a single day's summarised activity log: app names, window titles and durations, for that day only, with personal browsing already filtered out locally. On the free tier your own key sends it straight to your provider and I never see it. On the paid tier it passes through Vercel AI Gateway to Anthropic under their API terms, and I keep no copy.
macOS gates window titles behind that permission. It is how Glossa knows "Chrome, Stripe docs" instead of just "Chrome". Glossa never records, captures, or stores your screen. Without the permission it still works, with app names only.
No, and structurally rather than as a policy. There is no server that collects activity, so there is nothing a manager could see. On team licences each person's data stays on their own Mac. What leaves Glossa is what you approve and export: your timesheet.
Apple's Migration Assistant brings your Glossa data along automatically, and your licence covers two Macs with self-serve deactivation. The database is a single SQLite file in your home folder, so copying it across by hand works too.
Yes, in one click through the customer portal. Your data stays on your Mac either way: the free tier keeps working with your own key, and export always works.