Automation Showroom
Track work friction & its cost
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Capture every interruption in seconds. After one week you see what follow-ups, searching and waiting cost your team. No account, everything stays on your device.
Follow-up questions, searching, copy-paste, waiting for approvals: everyone knows the small interruptions of a working day. Hardly anyone knows what they cost. The friction log turns them into a number you can put on the table.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Capture: when something gets in the way, tap one of eight categories and pick the minutes lost. Add a note if you like. It takes a few seconds – right when it happens, not from memory at the end of the day.
2. Project: after seven observed days and five entries the app projects to a full month – in hours and in euros, at your own hourly rate and on 21 working days. Before that it only shows what was actually measured.
3. Pass it on: share the report as an image or text, for example in Teams or Slack. As the basis for the conversation with whoever decides.
WHAT YOU SEE
• Time measured over the last seven days
• Monthly projection in hours and euros
• The biggest time sinks by category
• A cost curve: what it costs if nothing changes for twelve months
TEST HYPOTHESES WITH THE SPARRING
If you want to know where it comes from: the sparring asks in seven short steps about the trigger, handovers, standstill, waste, possible effect and available data. A rule-based engine compares your answers with 23 curated hypothesis patterns. No LLM. You get up to three hypotheses with a confidence rating, a range for the possible yearly effect and three data points you can measure within five working days. Sometimes the honest answer is: this isn't worth it.
ALSO
• Cookbook: 12 reference architectures showing how typical workflows can be automated – demos, not client projects
• Learn: two courses with seven short lessons, including "Measure instead of guessing" and "From minutes to euros"
• Reminders you switch on yourself – scheduled locally on the device
• Export the sparring as a printable discussion brief
• Light and dark appearance, German and English, iPhone and iPad
WHAT THE APP WON'T DO
• No sign-up, no account
• No tracking, no ad IDs, no analytics
• All entries stay on your device. They only leave it when you share them yourself.
• No prices and no sales inside the app
FOR THE WHOLE TEAM
If you want to measure not just your own interruptions but your whole team's: you can request a conversation on automationshowroom.com. A free self-check is available there as well.
PUBLISHER
balane GmbH, Jonas Höttler. Support: support@balane.tech
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Version 1.3 – the friction log comes first.
• The friction log is now where the app starts: capture interruptions, see the cost after one week.
• A new first-run introduction showing how minutes become a number.
• Sparring: the effect estimate now asks in plain language instead of formula symbols.
• Links go to automationshowroom.com; a broken link to the showcases is fixed.
• A clear message when sharing, backup or email fails – instead of a button that does nothing.
• Tapping twice no longer opens a web page twice.
Still: no sign-up, no tracking, everything stays on your device.
The developer, Jonas Hoettler, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jonas Hoettler
- Size
- 29.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Balane GmbH
