Arête — Time Tracker for macOS

Features

⏱

One-click tracking

Click any tag to start tracking. Click it again to stop. No terminal required.

📊

Live mini-timeline

Today's intervals rendered directly inside the menu, with a live "now" indicator updating every 5 seconds.

📈

Logbook

Day, Week, Month and custom-range views with interactive timeline, pie chart, tag summary table, and PDF export. Also ships as a standalone Arête Logbook.app — useful if you only want reporting without the menu bar applet.

📝

Annotations

Attach notes to any interval from the menu bar or the timeline. Optionally prompted automatically on stop.

🔒

Pause on screen lock

Stop tracking automatically when your screen locks and resume the exact same tags on unlock.

🏷

Add tag without stopping

Use the "Add tag…" submenu to add a second tag alongside the one already running.

🔗

TimeWarrior compatible

Wraps timew — every action maps to a real TimeWarrior command. Use the CLI alongside the app freely.

🚀

Start at login

🎯

Daily work target

Set your daily hour goal. The logbook shows your progress as a percentage of target alongside each tag.

✏️

Edit intervals in the logbook

Drag the edge of any bar in the timeline to move its start or end time. Or right-click → Edit interval for a full-day scrubber with precise minute control.

Installation

Download the DMG

Download Arete.dmg and open it.

Drag to Applications

Drag Arete.app (and optionally Arête Logbook.app) into the Applications shortcut in the disk image.

Launch & allow

Double-click the app. On first launch macOS may show an "unidentified developer" warning — see below.

Gatekeeper notice: Arête is not yet notarized. If macOS blocks the launch, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the Security section, and click Open Anyway. Alternatively run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Arete.app in Terminal.

What's New

1.0.11

Standalone Logbook app — Arête Logbook.app is now bundled in the same DMG alongside Arete.app. Run it on its own if you want reporting without the menu bar applet.
PDF export — export any Logbook view as a PDF directly from the File menu.

1.0.10

Drag to edit interval times — hover near the left or right edge of any logbook bar until the cursor becomes a resize arrow, then drag to move start or end time. Times snap to the nearest minute.
Overlap prompt — if a drag would create an overlap, a dialog asks whether to adjust the neighbouring interval automatically or cancel.
Edit interval window — right-click any bar → Edit interval… opens a window with a full-day scrubber. Drag the start or end handle, see the exact time update live, edit tags, and optionally apply :adjust.
Help updated — the in-app Help window documents both editing methods.

1.0.9

Check for updates — menu item fetches the latest version and shows the changelog in-app.
Limit menu bar real estate — active tag title is truncated to prevent overflow.
Remove annotations from timeline graphs — annotations remain in tooltips and the annotations table.

1.0.8

Annotations — attach notes to any tracked interval from the menu bar or the logbook timeline.
Add tag… submenu — add a second tag alongside the running one without stopping.
Annotations table in logbook — lists every annotated interval, sortable, CSV-exportable.
Annotation text on timeline bars — shown inside bars and always in the hover tooltip.
Clear filter button in logbook — reset tag filtering with one click.
Help window — "Help…" opens a reference guide covering every feature.

1.0.7

Logbook — Day, Week, Month and Custom range tabs with interactive timeline, pie chart, and summary table. Right-click any interval bar to annotate or view raw data. Right-click the summary table to copy as CSV.
Preferences window — consolidated settings panel.
Pause on screen lock — stop and resume tracking automatically on lock/unlock.
Daily work target, Show empty days, Recent tags range settings.
Start at login — register from within Preferences.

1.0.6

Mini timeline at the top of the menu with a live "now" indicator.
Periodic refresh every 5 seconds.

1.0.5

Initial public release — menu bar applet with tag tracking, Stop all, and New tag dialog.