Alternatives
A free, open-source alternative to paid time trackers
Most popular Mac time trackers are paid apps or subscription services built around cloud accounts. Tokify takes a different approach: free, open source, offline-first, and private by design.
What makes Tokify a real alternative
Free and open source
GPL-3.0 and built in the open — no paywalls, no trials, no upsells.
No account
Install it and start tracking. There's no sign-up wall.
End-to-end encrypted sync
Activities are encrypted on your device before they sync, so the service never sees your work history.
Shared team activity
Teams work from the same activity history, with updates synced to every member.
Works offline
Fully functional with no connection. Keep it local until you choose to sync.
Plain-text data you own
Your history is a text file at ~/.tock.txt — readable, greppable, and yours forever.
Alternative to RescueTime
RescueTime is a paid service that automatically tracks how you spend time across apps and websites and reports on it through a cloud account. Tokify doesn’t do passive, automatic capture — it’s an intentional tracker where you log what you’re working on. If the automatic-tracking-plus-cloud model isn’t for you, Tokify offers a free, offline, account-free approach where your data never leaves your Mac unless you choose end-to-end encrypted sync for a team or another Mac.
Alternative to Toggl
Toggl Track is a subscription SaaS built around a cloud account and cross-platform apps. Tokify is the free, open-source, macOS- native counterpart: no account, offline-first, and your time stays in a plain-text file you control. See the full Tokify vs Toggl comparison.
Alternative to Timing
Timing is a paid Mac app known for automatically tracking your activity. Tokify is free and open source and takes the intentional route — you press Start on what you’re doing — while keeping your history as plain text rather than an app database. See the full Tokify vs Timing comparison.
Try Tokify
It takes under a minute to install and needs no account.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/relegate-to/tokify/main/install.sh | shFree · Open source (GPL-3.0) · macOS 11+ · No account required