Hoursight Help

Click Hoursight in the menu bar to open its menu, then click Start (Start Next Block while the rest timer runs). The timer counts up and the menu bar shows how long you’ve been focusing. It doesn’t stop on its own at 30 minutes; you choose when to click End (before 30 minutes the button is Discard, which doesn’t save). You can also double-press the right Option key — it does what the menu’s main button does at that moment.

A single session of 30 minutes or more that you save. It is the unit Hoursight uses to measure focus. Sessions under 30 minutes, sessions you discard, and sessions that aren’t saved don’t count. After a block ends, the menu shows a rest timer; if you click Start Next Block within 10 minutes and complete that block, it’s marked as a continuous block. It’s only a mark: each block’s time is still counted separately.

macOS requires this permission before an app can notice the right Option double-press while you work in other apps. Hoursight uses it for that one gesture only: it keeps just a temporary state for the check and never saves or sends your keystrokes or what you type. Without it, you can still time from the menu; when the permission is needed, the menu shows Open Input Monitoring Settings. You can turn it off any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Input Monitoring.

Each time you save a focus block, a small card shows today’s total and compares it, at the same time of day, with yesterday, the same day last week, and your usual pace. Up, down, or the same, it’s shown as it is. The card hides after 8 seconds; you can see it again under Last completed in the menu, and look back at every result in Completion Recaps.

Choose Statistics & History in the menu. Look back by day and by week at the time you put in and the length of your focus blocks; a session that crosses midnight is split between the two days by the time spent in each. Hoursight lets you know when you set a new record, and a record stays as it was even if you edit your history later.

Yes. In Statistics & History you can change a record’s time and note, or delete it. Saved recaps and records aren’t recalculated.

Yes. Statistics, recaps, and history stay unrestricted. For 3 days from the day you first start a session, there’s no limit; after that, you can start 2 focus sessions a day for free.

Monthly, Yearly, and the one-time Lifetime purchase unlock exactly the same features, with unlimited sessions. Your first subscription starts with 1 month free, with unlimited sessions during the trial; after that it renews automatically on the plan you chose, and you can cancel any time in your Apple account. Prices are as shown in the App Store.

Open Purchase & Access from the menu and click Restore Purchases at the bottom of the window. Restoring brings back your access only, not your local records.

In the Purchase & Access window, click Manage Subscription ↗ to open Apple’s subscription page. Apple handles subscriptions, charges, and refunds.

No. Lifetime doesn’t cancel an existing subscription or credit what you’ve paid; cancel it yourself in Apple’s subscription settings.

Only on this Mac. Hoursight needs no sign-up, doesn’t upload your records to any server, and doesn’t sync them between devices. See the Privacy Policy.

Not automatically: records don’t sync, and Restore Purchases brings back access only, not records.

In the menu, under Language, choose Match System, 简体中文, English, or 日本語. If the language on screen would change, Hoursight needs to relaunch; choose Later to switch the next time it launches. Your records aren’t affected.

When the menu bar runs out of room, the icon can end up behind the notch or be tucked away by a menu bar manager. Open Hoursight again (double-click it in the Finder or open it with Spotlight) and a panel appears near the top of the screen: open the menu from there, or turn on the block strip.

A thin strip at the top center of the screen that shows the timer state and today’s total. Turn it on with Show today’s block strip in the menu; it’s off by default.