Time tracking and productivity insights

Hours that add themselves up.

TimeNova measures the real workday: active time, idle time, meetings, and breaks, then turns it into reports a manager can read in a minute.

Every report, as it ships.

Pick a report to see the real screen and what is on it. Every number comes from tracked seconds, so any figure can be opened and explained.

Reports · Overview

The whole team, one glance

Opens on the team for a day, week or month. The cards answer the questions a manager asks first; the summary reads the period in plain words; every card opens the report behind it.

Time tracked, meeting time, manual time
The top row for the period. Manual time is what people added by hand, kept separate so it is never mistaken for observed time.
Hours tracked and idle minutes
Ranked per person. Idle is present but hands-off; it sits inside tracked time and is shown, not hidden.
Currently working, didn't start
Live presence for today, and who was scheduled but has not begun. Rules are calm: a late start is stated, never flagged.

Two ways to run it.

The desktop app is started and stopped by each person, and they always see their own data. The automatic tracker is installed by the company, one installer for the whole fleet, and runs on its own. Both are configured from the same Settings page and feed the same reports.

How a tracked day is built.

The processing chain, end to end, for review before deployment.

  1. A tracker runs on the computer. Either the desktop app, which a person starts and stops themselves and which always shows them their own day, or the automatic tracker, which your company installs once per machine and which runs as a background service. Both run on Windows 10 and later and on macOS 12 and later. Same reports either way.
  2. It takes a reading every five seconds. What application is in front, the window title, the browser address if a browser is in front, and whether the keyboard and mouse have moved. Not the keystrokes: there is no keylogging in TimeNova and the permission is never requested, so the content of what somebody types does not exist to be stored.
  3. Readings become a day. The server turns five-second readings into the blocks you actually read: worked time, meetings, idle stretches, breaks, and time against a project. Query strings are stripped from every address before storage, so a password-reset link or a search term in a URL never lands in your database.
  4. Reports open the same day. Not overnight, not after a sync. A person who installs the tracker in the morning appears on the overview that afternoon.

What TimeNova does not do.

Scope limitations are documented here so they can be assessed before a trial begins.

Time tracking, asked every week

Does the team have to start and stop the tracker?

Only if you deploy the desktop app, which is the point of it: a person starts their own day and can stop it whenever they like, and stopping is a normal act rather than an accusation. The automatic tracker runs by itself as a background service and needs nothing from the person. Many companies run both, the app for salaried staff and the automatic tracker for shared or company-owned machines.

How accurate is the time?

Readings are taken every five seconds and the server counts them against its own clock, not the computer's, so a machine with a wrong clock or one that has been asleep cannot inflate or lose a day. Meetings count as worked time even when the keyboard is quiet. Idle stretches are counted as idle and shown rather than quietly deleted.

What happens when someone is offline?

The tracker keeps recording locally and sends the backlog when the connection returns. A flight, a dead wifi router or a VPN drop costs nobody their hours.

Can a person edit their own time?

Only if you allow it, per person, and every manual entry is labelled as manual in every report and totalled separately. Manual time is never mixed into tracked time as though a computer had seen it.

What does it cost per person?

$9 per user per month on Pro and $14 on Max, or $7.50 and $11.67 on annual billing. Every person on the roster is a seat. A computer waiting for admin approval is not a seat and costs nothing until you approve it.

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