Two work hours trackers live on this page. A free TimePrivate calculator that totals a week of shifts, unpaid breaks and overtime right here in the browser, and downloads to CSV. And the TimePrivate Mac app, which does the same job every day on its own and keeps the result in a database on your machine.
The calculator works in any browser today. The app is not released yet: Apple Silicon Macs first, Windows on the roadmap.
A work hours tracker records three things: when the shift started, when it ended, and which minutes were unpaid. Every report, timesheet and payroll export is arithmetic on top of those three. TimePrivate ships two of them, and they answer different questions.
The TimePrivate app is not released, so there is nothing to download or buy today. The calculator works right now.
TimePrivate's work hours calculator takes punch times in and unpaid break minutes out. Overnight shifts are handled, anything past 40 hours gets split out for you, and the week downloads to CSV. The arithmetic runs inside this page, so the times you type are not submitted anywhere and there is nothing to install.
| Day | Start | End | Break (min) | Worked |
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Decimal hours are what most payroll systems ask for: 7 hours 30 minutes is 7.50, not 7.30. The break column simply subtracts whatever you type, so enter the minutes your employer does not pay for and leave paid breaks alone. The 40 hour split is plain weekly arithmetic. Your contract, state or province may compute overtime a different way, so treat this as a total to check against your paycheque, not as legal advice.
TimePrivate's work hours tracker wants four numbers a day and nothing else. No account, no email, no install, and the same four steps whether you are on macOS or Windows.
One row per day in the TimePrivate calculator table. Whether you see a 24 hour or an AM and PM box depends on your operating system, and both compute the same. An end time earlier than the start is read as crossing midnight, so 22:00 to 06:00 lands as 8h 0m.
Type unpaid minutes in the break column and this work hours tracker subtracts exactly that, with no guessing. A 30 minute unpaid lunch turns an 8h 30m day into 8h 0m. Paid breaks belong in the total, so leave the column empty for those.
The TimePrivate calculator returns the week in hours and minutes, the same week in decimal hours for payroll, everything up to 40 hours as regular, and the remainder past 40. A 45 hour week reads 45h 0m, 45.00, 40h 0m regular and 5h 0m past 40.
Download CSV writes one row per day plus the weekly totals into a file your browser saves to your own downloads folder. It opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. The file is built inside this page by TimePrivate, so your times are not sent to a server.
Search for a work hours tracker and you get three kinds of answer, and TimePrivate is a fourth. The first three are not wrong. They just answer different questions, and they leave the record in different hands.
Totals one week and forgets it the moment you close the tab. Useful for checking a paycheque, useless for the question "how many hours did I work in March".
Good for punching in and out on a job site. Your history lives in whatever account the developer runs, which is why both app stores now print a privacy label next to the download button.
The workspace belongs to whoever pays for it. An administrator can see it, change it, and close it. That is the deal, and it is fine until you leave the job.
There is a fourth case that almost nothing serves: you want your own copy. Not instead of your employer's system, alongside it. The US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division publishes a timesheet app of its own for workers, which tells you keeping your own record is ordinary practice rather than paranoia. TimePrivate is built for that case. Being honest about the limit: it cannot stop other software on your Mac from watching you. It simply is not one of those programs, and it has no manager view, no screenshots and no keystroke logging to turn on, which is the whole of what TimePrivate deliberately leaves out.
You already get a total from the employer's system. TimePrivate's calculator is the second opinion: type the week, compare the decimal figure against the payslip, and you know within a minute whether a break was deducted twice.
Billing a client means defending the number later. TimePrivate keeps the hours in a local database with CSV export, so the evidence behind an invoice is a file you hold rather than a report inside a subscription you might cancel.
Nobody clocks you, so nothing gets counted. Run a week through the TimePrivate work hours calculator and the hours past 40 line stops being a feeling and starts being a number you can take into a review.
The TimePrivate work hours calculator on this page is plain HTML and JavaScript, so it runs in Edge, Chrome or Firefox on Windows and Linux exactly as it does on a Mac. The TimePrivate app itself ships on Apple Silicon Macs first, with Windows on the roadmap.
Employer workspaces close on your last day and take the history with them. A local TimePrivate database and a CSV file both survive the account being switched off, which is the practical reason to keep a parallel record while you are still employed.
TimePrivate has no team dashboard, no timesheet approvals and no payroll runs, so if you need to see other people's hours in one place this is the wrong work hours tracker. Clockify, Toggl and the rest of that market exist for that job.
Six questions worth asking of any work hours tracker, TimePrivate included, before you type a month of your life into it.
A calculator answers today. A tracker answers "what did I bill Acme in Q2". If you need the second one, a bookmarked calculator will quietly cost you hours a month.
Look for CSV export before you type a single entry. Anything that can only print a report is holding your history hostage in a polite way.
Check whether there is an admin role at all. If a dashboard exists, someone can be given the keys to it later, whatever today's settings say.
With most cloud trackers the account closes and the history goes with it. Ask where the file lives. If the answer is "our servers", that is your answer.
Trains, planes, client sites with locked-down guest networks. A tracker that needs a connection to record a timer is a tracker that loses time.
Shift workers want punch in and punch out. Desk workers forget to start timers and need something automatic. Buying the wrong shape is the usual reason people quit a tracker in week two.
Where TimePrivate is the wrong pick: if you need one dashboard showing your team's hours, approval flows for other people's timesheets, or payroll runs for staff, look elsewhere. Those are the features it deliberately does not have. Same answer if you are on Windows or Linux today. Mac ships first.
Most work hours trackers reach you through an app store, and both stores now make the developer publish what the app collects. TimePrivate thinks that panel is the most useful thirty seconds of research you can do, so here is how to read it.
On an App Store listing it sits under the screenshots and splits into Data Linked to You, Data Used to Track You, and Data Not Linked to You. For a work hours tracker, the line that matters is whether your usage data and identifiers appear under Linked to You, because that is your timesheet tied to your name.
Play calls the same panel Data safety and adds two claims Apple does not: whether data is encrypted in transit, and whether you can request deletion. A work hours tracker that cannot answer the deletion question is one you should not hand a year of shifts to.
Both cards are self declared by the developer and describe collection, not retention. Neither says who inside the company can read your hours, or what happens to them when the company is acquired. That is why TimePrivate's answer is structural: an app that makes no network requests has nothing to declare in either panel.
Being straight about the split, because it is easy to blur: the TimePrivate Mac app makes no network requests, has no accounts and stores hours in a local database, so there is no collection to declare. This website is a different thing. timeprivate.com runs Google Analytics, PostHog and Microsoft Clarity, all named in the TimePrivate privacy page. The calculator table is marked as masked for those tools, so the shift times you type are not meant to appear in a session recording, and the totals are computed in your browser either way. An app that collects nothing sitting behind a site that measures its own traffic is the honest description, and you should expect any tracker you shortlist to draw that line as plainly.
The calculator on this page is a one week answer. The TimePrivate Mac app is the same work hours tracker running every day without being asked, in three moves.
Automatic tracking notices which apps you are in and which browser domains you visit, then maps them to projects using rules you write once. App names and domains, never screenshots and never keystrokes. Forget to start a timer and nothing is lost.
Each evening it drafts the timesheet from what it saw and hands it to you. Accept it, edit it, or throw it away. Nothing books itself into your week without you.
Hours land in a local database on your Mac. The app makes no network requests: no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports, no account to create. Export the lot to CSV whenever you like, and if you want it on a second Mac, optional sync writes end to end encrypted files into a folder you choose. The rest of what the TimePrivate app does with those hours, from reports to offline invoices, sits on the home page.
Common questions about work hours trackers, the calculator on this page, and the TimePrivate Mac app.
A work hours tracker is any tool that records when you started work, when you stopped and which minutes were unpaid, then totals them across a week or a month. A browser calculator like the TimePrivate one on this page answers for a single week and forgets it when the tab closes. An app like TimePrivate keeps the history in a database, which is what lets you answer a question about March in June.
Divide the minutes by 60. 15 minutes is 0.25, 30 minutes is 0.50, 45 minutes is 0.75. So 7 hours 45 minutes is 7.75 hours, not 7.45. The calculator on this page shows both, because payroll almost always wants the decimal and you almost always think in minutes.
Yes. Download CSV under the table writes one row per day, with start, end, unpaid break, the worked total and the decimal figure, plus the weekly totals underneath. It opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. TimePrivate builds the file inside your browser, so the times you typed are not sent to a server to produce it.
In everyday use the words are interchangeable, and the app stores list the same products under both. The distinction worth caring about is who the record belongs to. A timesheet app usually exists to hand hours to someone who approves them, so the workspace belongs to an employer or a client. TimePrivate is built for the copy you keep for yourself, which is why it has no manager view and no approval queue.
It depends where you work and what your contract says. The common pattern is that a long unpaid meal break comes out of the total while short paid breaks stay in. The calculator does not guess: it subtracts exactly the minutes you type in the break column, so enter the time you are not paid for.
Yes. If the end time is earlier than the start time, it treats the shift as crossing midnight and adds the missing hours. A 22:00 start and a 06:00 end reads as eight hours.
Nothing stops you keeping your own log alongside whatever system your employer uses, and the Department of Labor publishes a timesheet app aimed at exactly that. In TimePrivate your copy is a local database plus CSV export, so the record is a file you hold rather than a row in someone else's account.
No. It is not released, so there is nothing to download and nothing to pay for today. The waitlist is the whole offer: one email the day it opens. The planned pricing is $9 a month or $79 a year, subscription only.
It has no online mode to lose. The app makes no network requests at all, so tracking on a plane behaves exactly like tracking at your desk. Optional sync is the one thing that touches a folder, and it writes end to end encrypted files your cloud provider cannot read.
Not yet. Mac ships first, on Apple Silicon, and Windows is on the roadmap. The calculator on this page runs in any browser on any operating system.
TimePrivate's work hours calculator is free and stays that way, so use it every payday if you like. When you want the same totals to appear without you typing anything, the TimePrivate Mac app is what the waitlist is for. One email the day it opens, nothing else.
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