RescueTime helps you track time, block distractions, manage goals, and understand your full workday across phone and desktop. Together this gives you a clear view of your habits and the tools to improve them. Understand where your time goes, stay focused when it matters, and build better workdays without extra effort.
One subscription works across all your devices, syncing your data to give you a complete picture of your time on mobile and desktop.
**Created For iOS**
RescueTime for iOS brings powerful, simple focus tools to your phone:
• Automatic app tracking: see app activity with productivity ratings and daily and weekly summaries (optional Screen Time permission).
• Focus Sessions with optional app blocking: stay on task with time-boxing, optionally grant permission to block distractions in real time.
• Project tracking: log time to specific projects and track progress across sessions and timers.
• Offline time: add meetings, calls, and other offline activities to complete your day.
• Reporting: View and manage your time across all your devices in the app.
• Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian.
**Focus Sessions**
Start a Focus Session when you need uninterrupted time to work. RescueTime blocks distractions, tracks your progress, and delivers a summary when you're done.
Use timers for time boxing or to track open-ended tasks. Sessions and timers can be linked to projects, so your focused time always counts toward something meaningful.
**Full Workday Perspective**
Install RescueTime on your desktop to see the full picture. Your activity, focus sessions, and progress sync seamlessly across devices. Please note that RescueTime for desktop is only available in English.
**Goals And Insights**
Set daily goals for focused work, screen-free time, or better online habits. RescueTime tracks your progress automatically and shows how your behavior aligns with your goals.
Weekly summaries highlight trends over time, so you can see what's working and what's not.
**Permissions**
Several optional features require elevated permissions. Reporting: tracking phone app activity requires Screen Time permission, and you can choose to use this feature or not. Focus Sessions: using the optional app blocking part of sessions requires Screen Time permission in order to offer real-time intervention.
**Plans**
Solo Focus includes automatic tracking with full history, Focus Sessions with real-time app blocking, offline activity logging, goals with daily targets, alerts and automations, advanced filtering, and integrations.
Solo+ includes everything in Solo Focus, plus automated project and task tracking with RescueTime Timesheets. Link activities and timers to projects to automatically generate timesheets or track progress across work and personal goals.
Free includes automatic basic tracking, daily and weekly reports, the Productivity Pulse, and two weeks of activity history. Offline time logging, project tracking, and distraction blocking require a subscription.
**For Teams**
RescueTime also offers team plans with shared projects, team dashboards, manager insights, and centralized settings. Team plans are only available at rescuetime.com.
**Privacy**
RescueTime does not record keystrokes, capture screenshots, or read message and website content.
You control what is tracked, can pause tracking at any time, and can export or delete your data whenever you choose.
I like that Rescuetime is transitioning to an assistant-based approach, but I think they could do it without abandoning the dashboard and metrics—people need both! I also think they could incorporate something similar to their original dashboard into the iPad app, which would make it a lot more useful than the current version which is just a copy of the iPhone app that doesn’t work well on the bigger screen.
Very helpful
RDL1979
Very helpful for tracking time - especially when used with the desktop app.
Not useful app
Lex-Guardian
It’s not about rescue your time. It’s about wasting your time. Don’t do it, pls
Why aren’t you warning iPad users that this app won’t work on iPads?
StrayKatStudio
I read online that Apple won’t let RescueTime track app usage for iPhones or iPads. It would have saved me some time frustration if the app description had just said that, or at least said it when I opened the app. Unless something has changed? I’d love to actually use this app. I used it probably 10 years ago, and loved it. I even paid for it for quite a while. Now I’m trying to reduce my streaming time, so I was wanting to use the basic features again.I do all my streaming on my iPad, so if RescueTime can’t track app usage here, then this won’t work for me.Before I read that this won’t work on my iPad, when I installed this app and created a new account with my new email and signed in, it only let me choose between the 2 paid versions. There was no way to select the free version.So that’s not a great user interface on both counts. This has all just been a waste of time.
The developer, RescueTime, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
