Time tracking without screenshots.
Plenty of time tracking apps watch your screen, log what you type and photograph your desktop for somebody else to look through. Hustled does none of it: no picture of your screen is ever kept, and nothing it records leaves your computer.
What Hustled never records
- What you type
- Pictures of your screen
- Your clipboard
- The messages and documents on your screen
- Your camera and mic
- Your files
- The pages you visit
- Your location
What it does record
The name of the app in front of you, the title of its window, the name of a website but never the page, and when you were active. That is the whole list, and it is enough to fill in a timesheet.
Some apps call every window by their own name, so the title says only “Claude” or “ChatGPT” however many chats you open. Where an app will say what is open, Hustled asks it for the title, the way a screen reader would, without looking at the screen at all.
One setting adds to it, and only if you turn it on. For an app that will not say, with Screen text on, Hustled reads the heading at the top of its window — a chat’s or a page’s title — on your computer, keeps that one line, and throws the picture away. It never reads password managers, private messengers or sign-in windows.
Your day stays on your computer, unless you share it
Everything Hustled observes — which apps and sites you used, window titles, idle time — is kept on your own machine and never uploaded. By default our servers know your email and your subscription, and nothing about your day.
One setting changes that, and only if you turn it on. Show my hours online copies your finished time entries — a project, a description, when it started and ended — to our servers, so you can see timesheets and reports in a browser. It never sends which apps or sites you used. A separate box adds one total a day for time tracked and not yet filed, a date and a number and nothing about what the time was spent on. One button deletes everything we hold. Exactly what is sent.
Can my employer see what I do?
Only if you show them. Your day is stored on your own computer, and the web portal, which shows your finished hours in a browser, is off until you switch it on.
Still a real timesheet
Hustled starts with Windows, records on its own, and fills in your timesheet for you. You look it over, fix anything it got wrong, and export it as a CSV or send it to Rizqo. How it works on Windows.