Know where your day actually went
Tap Time Tracker is a free one-tap time tracker: one big button for each thing you do. Tap when you switch. By evening you see the meetings, the reviews and the “quick questions” laid out hour by hour, without filling in a single timesheet. And it stays yours: no account, and nothing you track ever leaves your device.
The demo runs on three weeks of sample data in its own sandbox. Nothing you do there touches your real tracker. Free.
How does one-tap time tracking work?
It works like a chess clock. Tap Meeting and the clock moves to Meeting; tap Task and it moves on. Only one thing runs at a time, so nothing gets counted twice and nothing slips through the cracks.
The buttons are big enough to hit without looking, on a laptop, a tablet by the desk or a touchscreen on the wall.
Forgot to switch? How do I fix it?
Hold the activity that should have been running and tell it when it really started, such as “active since 10:40”. The time is taken from whatever was running, so the day still adds up to the minute. Two taps, even twenty minutes after the call that pulled you away.
- Press and hold the activity that should have been running.
- Pick when it started: a quick choice such as 15m ago, or the exact time with the − and + buttons.
- Tap active since 10:40: that time moves over from whatever was running.
Every session of the day is right there to shorten, move or delete.
What can I track?
Anything you spend time on. The buttons are yours: add activities in Settings, one name or a whole list at once, such as Meeting, Task, Code review, Email and Break. Rename, reorder or remove them whenever your work changes; a removed activity keeps its history.
Then sort them the way you think about your day. None of it is required: plain buttons work fine.
- Activities Any name, a color from the theme and an optional daily target, such as two hours of focus or an hour of breaks.
- Groups Put activities into sets like Work and Home and switch a set off to hide its buttons. Several groups can be on at once, and the totals show time per group.
- Categories Tag activities your own way: deep or shallow work, billable or not, a client or a project. The summary regroups around any of them.
- Hide for today An activity you will not need today steps aside and is back tomorrow.
What does the summary show?
Day, week, month or any range you pick. Every day sits on the same clock, so late starts, long lunches and meeting-heavy Tuesdays jump out at a glance.
Tag activities with your own categories, like deep work versus shallow or alone versus with people, and the whole summary regroups around them.
Who can see what I track?
Nobody but you. Most trackers want an account, then upload every minute of your day to their cloud. This one has nowhere to send it. Your sessions live in your browser’s own storage on this device, and that is the only copy.
No sign-up, no ads, no cookies. Track the dentist, the job interview and the long lunch without wondering who else gets to see them.
- No account No email, no password. Open it and start tapping.
- Stays on this device Nothing you track is ever uploaded anywhere.
- Nobody reading along No ads, no cookies. The site counts visits anonymously, never what you track, and you can turn that off.
- Yours to take Export a backup file any time and import it on another device.
Can I keep the timer in view while I work?
Yes. Open the mini window from the app’s header: a small window that floats over your other apps, like a video in picture-in-picture. It shows what is running, for how long, and today’s total.
Three buttons are all it needs: the previous or next activity, in the order of your buttons, and stop. Clicking past a few activities to reach the right one leaves no stray entries. It works in desktop Chrome and Edge; other browsers do not offer such windows yet.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. On a phone the buttons stack two to a row and the menus slide up from the bottom. Add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app.
- Open taptimetracker.app/app/ in Safari on an iPhone or iPad, or in Chrome on Android.
- iPhone and iPad: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Android: open the ⋮ menu and tap Install app or Add to Home screen.
- Open it from the new icon. It starts straight in the app, even offline.
Your day is nobody else’s business
No account, and no server that ever sees your day. Everything you track stays in this browser on this device. Export a backup file whenever you like and import it anywhere else. The site only counts visits, anonymously and without cookies, so I know it is worth maintaining. How that works
- Daily targets See at a glance whether you took that hour of breaks.
- Profiles Keep work and home apart, each with its own buttons and history.
- Three layouts Tiles, rows or circles, and buttons that grow with use if you like.
- Seven themes Light, dark or following your system, or import your own.
- Your own day Start the day at 4 am if you work late; it rolls over on its own.
- Full screen Leave it running on a spare screen as a wall clock for your work.
Frequently asked questions
Is Tap Time Tracker free?
Yes. It is free to use, with no ads, no paid tier and no account. Open the app in any modern browser and start tapping; the live demo lets you try it on sample data first.
Will it stay free?
Yes. Everything it does today stays free. If paid extras ever come, they will be additions, never a price on what is free now.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, email or password. Your tracker lives in the browser you open it in, so there is nothing to log in to and nothing to forget.
What can I track with it?
Any activity you add in Settings: meetings, tasks, reviews, email, breaks, a commute or practice time. Sort them into groups such as Work and Home, tag them with your own categories such as deep work or a client, and give any of them a daily target.
Can I track time for clients or billable work?
Yes, with categories: tag activities with a client, a project, or billable versus not, and the summary shows the hours for each over a day, week, month or any range. It counts time only; there are no hourly rates or invoices.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser’s own storage (IndexedDB) on this device, and nowhere else. It is never uploaded, not even to this site. The only way it leaves the browser is a backup file that you export yourself.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once you have opened the app, it starts without a connection, and installed on a home screen or desktop it runs like any other app. Tracking never needs the internet, because nothing is sent anywhere.
How do I move my data to another device?
Export a backup: in the app open Settings → Backup and tap Export JSON. Copy the file to the other device, open the app there and use Import JSON in the same place. Import replaces that profile’s data, so export first if it has any.
Can I export to CSV or Excel?
Not yet: CSV export is planned for a future release. Today the export is a JSON backup file (Settings → Backup → Export JSON) that holds everything and imports on any device, and the summary shows the totals per activity, group or category.
Can two activities run at the same time?
No, and that is on purpose. Like a chess clock, starting one activity stops the other, so the day never adds up to more than 24 hours. Tap the running one to stop tracking altogether.
Can the timer stay on top of other windows?
Yes, in desktop Chrome and Edge: the mini window in the app’s header floats over your other apps and switches or stops activities with one click. Firefox, Safari and phones do not offer such windows yet, so the button does not show there. On Linux with Wayland the desktop decides what stays on top; in KDE Plasma a window rule that keeps it above other windows does the job.
Which devices does it work on?
Anything with a modern browser: a laptop, a tablet, a phone or a touchscreen on the wall. Each browser keeps its own tracker and there is no sync, so use a backup file to move between them.
Is there an iPhone or Android app?
It is a web app that installs like one. Open taptimetracker.app/app/ in Safari or Chrome and add it to your home screen: it gets its own icon, opens without the browser bar and works offline. There is nothing to download from an app store.
Last updated 10 November 2026
Give it one day.
Track tomorrow from the first coffee to the last message and look at the timeline in the evening. Most people are surprised.