Where the hours actually went.

The apps report is the answer to the question behind most monitoring purchases: not "were they at the desk" but "what did the time become". TimeNova times every app and site automatically and lets your company, not us, decide what counts as productive.

Where the hours went, rated productive, neutral or unproductive by rules you set.

What it does

• Per-second app timing. The frontmost app and page are sampled continuously, and each interval is credited to active or idle time rather than labelled wholesale.
• Websites without the noise. Pages collapse to meaningful records rather than a thousand one-second URL variants, query strings are stripped before storage so tokens and reset links never persist, and new-tab pages are never dressed up as websites.
• Your ratings, not our judgment. Rate an app or platform productive, neutral or unproductive at company level, per group, or per person. Distraction-shaming defaults to off; the customer decides what their work looks like.
• Media time named explicitly. A video playing in the front window counts as tracked time in its own lane, so training videos are not "away", and your ratings decide what the site was worth.
• No keylogging, structurally. TimeNova never requests input-monitoring permissions on macOS. What was typed is not collected anywhere, so it cannot leak from anywhere.

From report to decision

Usage rolls up per person, per team and per range, feeds the activity level on every other report, and exports to CSV. Software-budget questions ("who actually uses the licence we pay for") get answered from the same data. Start from time tracking to see the day these numbers come from.

How an hour becomes a line in this report

The processing chain from capture to report, including the two points at which data is deliberately discarded.

1. A reading every five seconds. Which application is in front, its window title, and the address if a browser is in front. Nothing about what was typed: there is no keylogging in TimeNova and the permission is never requested.
2. Query strings are stripped at ingestion. Everything after the ? in a URL is removed before storage, not after. That is where password-reset tokens and session ids live, and none of them ever reach your database or ours. Only the part that names the page is kept on a few sites, such as the words of a web search.
3. Your company rates what matters. Productive, neutral or unproductive, per application and per site, set by you and not by us. An agency rates Figma productive; a support floor might rate it neutral. Anything unrated stays visibly unrated rather than being guessed at.
4. Time rolls up per person, per group and per range. The same numbers feed the activity level on every other report, so the apps report and the hours report can never disagree with each other.
5. And it exports. Any range, to CSV, while your account is active.

What this report will not tell you

Scope limitations, so the report is not asked for an answer it does not hold.

• Not what was typed. Window titles and addresses, never keystroke content. The permission does not exist in the product.
• Not the full URL. The query string is stripped at ingestion, so you see the page, not the token in it.
• Not a judgement we made. Every productive and unproductive label on this report came from a rule someone in your company set. We ship no opinion about which apps are good.
• Not private browsing, separately. A browser is an application. If somebody works in a private window, it is time in that browser, and the address may not be readable.
• Not retained forever. One year on Pro, two on Max, then deleted.

Apps and websites, asked every week

Does it capture what people type into a website?

No. There is no keylogging anywhere in TimeNova and the input-monitoring permission is never requested, so keystroke content does not exist to be stored. The report shows which site was open and for how long.

Will I see my team's personal passwords or private links?

No, and this is enforced rather than promised. Query strings are removed from every address at the moment of ingestion, before anything is written down, so password-reset links and session tokens never persist. The only part kept is what names the page on a few sites, such as the words of a web search.

Who decides what counts as unproductive?

You do, per application and per site, and you can change it whenever you like. Anything nobody has rated shows as unrated rather than being quietly counted against someone.

Can I see this per team rather than per person?

Yes. Usage rolls up per person, per group and per date range, and a manager sees their own group only.

Can I find licences nobody uses?

That is one of the most common uses of this report. Sort by an application across a month and the paid tools nobody opens stand out before the renewal rather than after it.