fairzeit tracks every second you work on your Mac, turns it into minutes and suggests the right project, with the reason why. You confirm with one key.
Try it free for 14 days. Your card is kept on file, and nothing is charged before day 15. Cancel any time before. For macOS 15 or later, on Macs with Apple silicon. Windows is planned.
Example: fairzeit keeps track of what you do in Figma, Zoom, Notion, GitHub, Calendar and Linear. For your work on the Figma file “NWB Onboarding” it suggests the project Northwind Bank, very likely, and says why: the rule “Northwind Design”. You accept the suggestion with one key. It then counts as billable and is added to the total of the day.
Suggestion · very likelyConfirmedDismissed
Northwind Bank85 min
Figma file “NWB Onboarding”, rule “Northwind Design”
Suggestion · very likelyConfirmedDismissed
Alder Health30 min
Calendar event “Alder · Weekly sync”, rule “Alder”
Suggestion · very likelyConfirmedDismissed
Alder Health18 min
Page title contains “Alder”, rule “Alder”
Suggestion · very likelyConfirmedDismissed
Kestrel Studio20 min
Page title contains “kestrel-site”, rule “Kestrel”
Suggestion · very likelyConfirmedDismissed
Northwind Bank12 min
Calendar event “Northwind review”, rule “Northwind”
Suggestion · very likelyConfirmedDismissed
Kestrel Studio25 min
Ticket prefix “KES” belongs to Kestrel Studio
You don’t have to start or stop anything. fairzeit records every second of activity on your Mac, turns it into minutes and suggests the project it belongs to.
Active app, window and file, logged every second. Stored only on your Mac.
Seconds in the same context become one block. Short switches stay visible as a visit inside the block.
App, file and your rules decide, calendar events included. Every suggestion shows why.
Press Return and the minutes count as billable and land in the export. You decide what counts.
No plug-in per tool, no integrations to set up. fairzeit records the app you work in and suggests the project from files and your rules, calendar events included.
Sample data: one day across 40 apps
7 h 01 min
≈ €596 at €85/h
2 h 16 min of it in apps with under 15 minutes. People rarely start a timer for those.
Figma 1 h 32 min
Zoom 45 min
Notion 18 min
Linear 16 min
GitHub 12 min · short
Xcode 3 min · short
Chrome 34 min
Arc 4 min · short
Google Meet 8 min · short
Jira 5 min · short
Asana 3 min · short
ClickUp 2 min · short
Miro 6 min · short
Loom 4 min · short
Framer 4 min · short
Webflow 3 min · short
WordPress 2 min · short
Sketch 2 min · short
Blender 2 min · short
Cursor 58 min
Postman 3 min · short
Docker 2 min · short
Trello 2 min · short
QuickBooks 4 min · short
Xero 2 min · short
DATEV 2 min · short
HubSpot 3 min · short
Airtable 3 min · short
Dropbox 2 min · short
Calendly 2 min · short
Discord 3 min · shortAll trademarks belong to their owners. No partnership implied.
fairzeit watches no one. You see every detail, your team only the result. What goes where, the app shows you under Privacy, exactly as it does here.
Stored encrypted, the key sits in your Mac’s keychain. No server reads it. How long it stays is up to you: until you delete it, or 7, 30 or 90 days.
Confirmed entries only: after the Return key, by a rule you trust, or added by you. Only for projects you link to your workspace. Sent on their own, stored in the EU. A deleted entry is sent once more without its note.
Not stored, not sent, and no setting turns it on.
The update check runs once a day or only when you ask, and you can switch it off. An update is downloaded only when you install it. The rest goes only if you connect to fairzeit.com. Your sign-in token stays in the keychain and goes only to fairzeit.com.
Pause recording. Private mode: it counts only the time, without app, title, URL or path. Hide Titles: grey bars instead of titles, say while you share your screen. You switch that on yourself, fairzeit cannot tell when you share.
1Password, Messages, online banking: whatever is on your “Never record” list is kept as “Private”, without titles. Websites need the browser extension.
Your team lead sees only confirmed entries of projects you link to your workspace, nine fields each, as above. Activity, window titles, URLs and paths never.
Confirmed entries sit in a database in the EU, for your dashboard on the web. For teams, a data processing agreement (in German) under Art. 28 GDPR applies.
Under “Sent today” the app lists every request to fairzeit.com, the update check included: time, host, kind and outcome, with a count for entries and projects. A body, a token, a note or a name is never in it. The list stays on your Mac for 7 days and is never sent. No analytics, no crash reporter.
Short calls, fixes and emails rarely get written down. Enter your numbers and see what adds up over a year.
Freelancers: fairzeit tracks your work in every app. At month end, you export the confirmed time for your invoices.
Not billed in a year
80 hours, or €567 every month.
Each square is a working day. 10 of them go unpaid. On paper, you work for free from 16 December onward.
An estimate from your numbers, not a measurement. The calculator runs only in your browser and sends nothing.
Try it free for 14 days. Your card is kept on file, and nothing is charged before day 15. Cancel any time before.
Every suggestion shows how sure it is and why: app, file or rule, calendar events included.
Example of a suggestion: Alder Health, 30 minutes, very likely. The reasons: the calendar event “Alder · Weekly”, the Figma file “Alder – Patient app” and the rule “Alder meetings”. You accept it with Return or dismiss it with Backspace.
Everything this week that still needs you is on one list, oldest blocks first. Suggestions count as billable only once you accept them. After your first seven days you accept the very likely ones in one go.
Return:acceptBackspace:dismissJK:next1–4:projectS:splitM:mergeN:addZCommand-Z:undo
Example of the Review list: 11 open blocks. The first rows show Northwind Bank (45 minutes) and Alder Health (30 minutes) as very likely and Kestrel Studio (20 minutes) as a suggestion. One button accepts the two very likely ones in one go.
The week at a glance: confirmed hours, suggestions still open and the billable value per project. You see each project’s monthly budget in the web dashboard.
Example of the weekly overview, week 40: 22 hours 29 minutes confirmed, split into Northwind Bank 12.4 hours, Alder Health 4.1, Kestrel Studio 3.0 and Internal 2.9. 11 hours 35 minutes are still to review, the billable value is €2,246.
Imports entries from Toggl, Clockify, Memtime and eight more sources. Exports per client and period as CSV, Excel, PDF or JSON and for DATEV Lohn. Window titles and URLs stay out.
fairzeit takes over what your tool’s export contains; hourly rates only where the file includes them.
MemtimeTimeline report as Excel or CSV
TogglDetailed report as CSV
ClockifyDetailed report as CSV or Excel
HarvestAll time entries as CSV
TimingReport as JSON or CSV
TimelyReport as CSV or XLS
clockodoReport as CSV
EverhourReport as CSV
TimeCampDetailed report as Excel or CSV
EARLYExport as Excel or CSVExample of import and export: import from Toggl, Clockify, Memtime, Harvest and seven more sources. Export as CSV or Excel, PDF, JSON and DATEV Lohn; the e-invoice as XRechnung is planned.
Decide that Figma with “NWB” in the window title belongs to Northwind Bank. The order decides, and the preview shows what the rule matches this week. When a pattern repeats, fairzeit suggests the rule to you.
Return accepts, Backspace dismisses, J and K jump to the next block, 1 to 4 pick the project. Command-Z takes back any step.
One glance shows how much is tracked today. From there you start a timer for a call, switch on private mode or pause recording.
Your activity stays on your Mac. Confirmed entries of linked projects are stored in the EU. For teams, a data processing agreement (in German) under Art. 28 GDPR applies.
You’ll find each of them somewhere else. All seven in one plan: among the six tools shown, only fairzeit.
Compare with
| One field per row 01–07: full, limited, no | fairzeit7 of 7 | Memtime3 of 7 | Timing3 of 7 | Toggl2 of 7 | Clockify1 of 7 | Harvest2 of 7 | Timely3 of 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracking | |||||||
| Tracks automatically in the background | Yes: In the background, on the Mac (Windows planned) | Yes: Windows, Mac and Linux | Yes: In the background, Mac only | Limited: Timeline; you create the entries | Limited: Timeline; entries by hand | No: Timer only | Yes: Memory app, Windows and Mac |
| Suggests entries and says why | Yes: With the reason; you confirm | Limited: By your rules | Limited: Rules and suggestions; reason not described | Limited: Keyword hints | No: Assigned by hand | No: Assigned by hand | Limited: AI drafts; reason not described |
| Privacy | |||||||
| Activity local, entries in the EU | Yes: Activity stays local; confirmed entries are stored in the EU | Yes: Local; servers in Germany | Limited: Local; cloud location not stated | Limited: Local; entries on servers in the US | Limited: Local; entries in the EU only from Pro | No: Cloud in the US | Limited: Activity in the cloud, on AWS in Europe |
| No screenshots, in any plan | Yes: No setting turns them on | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited: Optional from Pro | Yes | Yes |
| Contract | |||||||
| Cancel monthly | Yes: On monthly billing; the yearly plan at the year’s end | No: Quarter, year or 2 years | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Everything in one plan, solo or team | Yes: Every feature, from one person | Limited: Tiers by integrations fairzeit lacks | No: Team features from Connect | No: Billable rates only from Starter | No: EU servers only from Pro | No: More projects billed by usage | No: Starter only up to 5 people |
| Pay once, with updates | Yes: Lifetime from €349; sales open soon | No: Recurring only | No: Recurring only | No: Recurring only | No: Recurring only | No: Recurring only | No: Recurring only |
| Price · October 2026 | |||||||
| Matching planautomatic, with billable rates and team reports | One planeverything included | Connectno team view, by design | ConnectMac only | Starteryou create the entries | BasicEU servers only from Pro | Teamsno automatic tracking | Starterup to 5 people, 20 projects |
| Billed yearlyper person per month | €16excl. VAT | €18VAT not stated | €13.45€16 incl. VAT | ≈ €8.04converted from $9 · VAT not stated | €3.99excl. VAT | ≈ €8.04converted from $9 · plus usage fees | ≈ €8.04converted from $9 · VAT not stated |
| Billed monthlyper person per month | €20excl. VAT | –shortest term: quarter, €22 | €16.81€20 incl. VAT | ≈ €10.73converted from $12 · VAT not stated | €4.99excl. VAT | ≈ €9.83converted from $11 · plus usage fees | ≈ €9.83converted from $11 · VAT not stated |
Cheaper entry plans exist. None has everything in one plan.
Toggl for up to 3 people, Clockify for up to 5, Harvest for one seat with 2 projects. fairzeit has a 14-day trial, with your card on file.
Clockify from €3.99, Timing from €6.72 net, Toggl, Harvest and Timely from ≈ €8.04, Memtime from €12, billed yearly.
All but Timing also run on Windows, Memtime and Clockify on Linux, Clockify and Toggl on phones. Timing, Toggl and Harvest offer 30-day trials.
As of 11 October 2026, from the vendors’ pricing, feature and help pages; prices and currency may vary by country. All prices are in euros. Toggl, Harvest and Timely quote US dollars only, even to visitors from Germany; we converted them at the ECB reference rate of 13 October 2026 (€1 = $1.1188), rounded and marked ≈. The euro amount is therefore a guide only and moves with the exchange rate. We read the prices again on 14 October 2026, from Germany. “Only fairzeit has all seven” refers to the six tools shown. “Matching plan”: the cheapest plan with automatic tracking, billable rates and team reports; Harvest tracks automatically in no plan, and Memtime by design shows no one else’s entries in a team. fairzeit and Clockify exclude VAT, Timing is converted to exclude VAT; Memtime, Toggl, Harvest and Timely don’t say whether their prices include VAT. Row 07: among tools not shown here, ManicTime sells a one-time licence from ≈ €77.76 ($87) with one year of updates. “Reason not described”: the vendor’s pages don’t say whether a suggestion shows its reason. All named brands and logos belong to their respective owners; naming them implies no affiliation with fairzeit.
One hour found pays for a seat for 4 months, and Lifetime has paid for itself after 5 hours found. Worked out at €85 an hour from the calculator: an example in numbers, not a measurement.
€16per person per month€192 per person per year instead of €240, billed yearly
44 days risk-free: 14 days to try, then 30 days money back.
All subscription prices excl. VAT. Cancellable at the end of the yearly term.
Try it free for 14 days. Your card is kept on file, and nothing is charged before day 15. Cancel any time before.
Founding offer
€349once, per seat30-day money backLast tier: €649
Every feature and update.
As much as just under two years of the subscription, billed yearly.
Each further seat in your team: €299.
500 seats while they last. At most 5 seats per company. Every seat in an order gets the tier you order in.
Sales open soon
Plus VAT, for businesses only.
Founding price The first 100 subscription accounts keep their price for good.
Your card is kept on file, and nothing is charged before day 15. Cancel any time before.
At the end of the period you have paid for: the end of the month on monthly billing, the end of the year on yearly billing.
14 days to try, then 30 days to get your first charge back. One email is enough, and you don’t need to prove anything.
How it worksWe extend your free trial until it ends, for up to 12 months.
For businesses only, within the meaning of § 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB).
No. Activity, window titles, URLs and paths never leave your Mac. Your team lead sees only the confirmed entries of projects you link to your workspace: project, start, end, minutes, note, whether billable, plus the entry’s id, last change and deletion time.
From day one, fairzeit uses the app, the window title, the website and your rules, calendar events included. At first the suggestions are cautious. When you keep assigning something the same way, fairzeit notices the pattern and offers to make it a rule. Every suggestion shows how sure it is and why.
Not yet. Today you export your confirmed hours per client and period as CSV, Excel, PDF or JSON, with the hourly rate and the amount, and write the invoice in your invoicing tool. E-invoices as XRechnung or ZUGFeRD straight from fairzeit are planned. We’ll name a date once it’s set.
Not yet. So far fairzeit is for macOS 15 or later only, on Macs with Apple silicon. Windows is planned and Linux is on our list for later, both with no date yet. Sign up below the download, and we’ll write when it’s ready.
You try fairzeit for 14 days, then the first charge is made. If you tell us in writing within 30 days of that first charge (an email to hallo@fairzeit.com is enough) that fairzeit did not pay for itself, Link (Stripe) refunds that first charge in full. On a monthly subscription that is the month, and the subscription continues until you cancel it. On a yearly one it is the whole year’s payment, and a yearly subscription ends with the refund. You don’t need to prove anything. It applies once per company and to the subscription.
You pay once per seat and use the Mac app and the platform without a subscription, with every feature and update for as long as fairzeit is offered, at least 5 years from the purchase. If we discontinue fairzeit, we give at least 12 months’ notice, and you first get a full export of your data. Apps for other systems, such as Windows, are not included unless we say expressly that they are. After the purchase you download fairzeit and sign in with your order’s email address; no licence key needed. Up to 30 days after the purchase you get your money back in full if you change your mind. A refunded seat becomes free again and no longer counts as sold.
Yes. For the trial you put your card on file with Stripe; nothing is charged during the 14 days. Shortly before the trial ends, Link, which sells for us, reminds you by e-mail. Cancel before then, and you pay nothing. Otherwise the subscription starts on day 15, at €20 per person per month or €192 a year. Cancel monthly, effective at the end of the billing period; the yearly plan is cancellable at the end of the yearly term.
Switching from another tool? We extend your free trial until your old contract ends, for up to 12 months. You upload the proof when you start. You put your card on file as with any trial; nothing is charged until the extended trial ends.
fairzeit exports the start, the end and the breaks of your working time as a record. Whether that is enough for your business is best checked with your tax or legal adviser.
No. “Accept 5 suggestions” confirms all of a day’s suggestions, “Accept 3 very likely” all the sure ones of the week. fairzeit shows the button for the very likely ones once your first seven days are over. Only what you accepted gets billed, and Command-Z takes back any step.
By your numbers, €567 a month goes unbilled. From your first working day you review suggestions instead of filling in times.
macOS 15 or later, for Macs with Apple silicon. Windows is planned and Linux is on our list for later, both with no date yet.
Try it free for 14 days. Your card is kept on file, and nothing is charged before day 15. Cancel any time before.
Get Lifetime · of seats left at €349.
For Chrome and Edge, for exact tabs and URLs. Firefox and Safari are planned.
The same app and the same data boundary, no date yet. Sign up below, and we’ll write when it’s ready.