Not all hours are
created equal.
Plouse automatically tracks your work across projects, measures your focus, and helps you understand where your best hours go. Made for freelancers and small creative teams.
Every hour
has a story.
Know exactly where your time goes across clients and projects.
Automatically, without timers or timesheets.
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Get a clear picture of your workday without constantly starting and stopping a clock. Spend your time doing the work, not tracking it.
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See exactly how much time goes into each client and project. Including the little tasks that are so easy to forget.
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Understand which projects consume your hours, spot scope creep early, and make better decisions about what to charge next time.
Better together,
without the busywork
Great client work is a team effort. Bring everyone’s hours and projects together, so you can stay aligned without adding more admin.
New team project
Shared with Studio North. Every teammate’s Mac picks it up on its own.
Keywords
Words in a document or page title that mean this project.
Export team report
Period
Sep 1 – Sep 30, 2026Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026Projects
- Northwind
- Acme Corp
- Fieldnote
- Harbor & Co
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See how your team distributes its time across clients and projects, without chasing everyone for updates.
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Set up a project once, with the words that match its work. It appears on every teammate’s Mac and starts collecting their hours on its own, so nobody has to configure a thing.
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Easily export your team’s tracked hours for project administration, client reporting, or quarterly reviews. All the data you need, without the manual work.
Smarter insights.
Better business
decisions.
Turn your tracked time into answers you can actually use. Understand your projects, uncover patterns, and make more informed decisions with private, local AI.
Runs on your Mac
Your activity is analysed on-device. No account, nothing sent to the cloud, unless you choose to connect your own AI.
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Find out which clients took the most time, how a project evolved, or where your workweek went, using everyday language.
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See when you do your deepest work, which days get lost to switching, and how your rhythm changes from week to week.
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Explore sensitive client and project information with AI designed to process your data locally, on your device.
v0.1.43
See what your AI agents worked on, and hour sheets the way you want them
Plouse now shows how much your AI agents did on each project, lets you bill that effort if you choose to, and lets you decide what goes in an exported hour sheet.
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Download Plouse for free
No tiers, no trial, no credit card — the full app, on us as long as we’re in beta.
Download for mac- Automatic focus tracking, on-device
- Smart project clustering
- Daily insights & focus heatmap
- PDF hour sheets for your clients
- Teams, free while we’re in beta
- Full privacy controls
About us
We built the tracker we
actually wanted to use
Plouse started with a small frustration. Every time-tracking tool we tried either nagged us to start a timer or quietly shipped our day off to someone else’s servers. Neither helped us do better work — they just added one more thing to manage.
So we made the opposite. A focused app that reads the shape of your day on its own, keeps your raw activity on your Mac, and tells you something honest: when you were truly in flow, and when you were simply busy.
We’re a small, independent team that cares more about deep work than dashboards. No investors pushing us to harvest your data, no growth team inventing reasons to ping you. Just a tool we use every day, shared with people who work the way we do.
Plouse works locally with
Apple Intelligence
Or connect your own AI of choice to power up your data.
Frequently asked
Quick answers to the things people ask most.
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By default, no. The solo app needs no account and stores everything locally on your Mac. Team features are opt-in: if you join a team, only the focus and project totals you choose are synced to your team’s private workspace, your raw activity stays on your machine.
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Yes. Export a PDF hour sheet per project for any period. You choose what it shows, by category or by app, a day‑by‑day grid and your average focus, and days round up to 15 minutes, 30 minutes or whole hours. Plouse remembers your choices per project.
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No. It lives in your menu bar and detects what you’re working on automatically. Nothing to start, stop, or remember.
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Sustained, uninterrupted time on a single project, not raw screen time. Long stretches of deep work count. Rapid context-switching does not. That’s what makes the daily and weekly numbers honest.
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Related windows, files, and apps you tend to use together are clustered into a single project automatically. You can rename, merge, or split clusters whenever the grouping doesn’t match how you think about your work.
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Yes. The more you use it, the sharper it gets, and everything it learns stays yours. Most time trackers start from zero every day. Plouse doesn’t. It quietly builds up an understanding of your world, the projects you actually work on, how you like your time sorted, the people you meet with. Correct it once and it remembers: move a document to the right project, rename something, recategorise an app, and it gets it right next time. It’s the difference between a tool you configure and one that gets to know you.
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macOS only for now. Other platforms aren’t on the roadmap yet.
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Yes. Create a team, invite people with a join code, and see shared focus and project totals. Each member’s raw activity stays on their own Mac, only the totals they choose are synced to your team’s private workspace. Teams are free while Plouse is in beta; a subscription will follow once it’s mature.