Dial • Time Tracker
Time tracker that catches the meetings you forgot
Details
- External ID
- 1263510
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dial • Time Tracker
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A simple time tracker for the Mac menu bar. One click starts a project, another switches, and ⌥⌘T opens it from any app. What makes it different: Dial notices the meetings and calls you forgot to track. It reads your calendar and sees when Zoom, Meet or Teams is using the mic (it never listens), then asks before adding the time. Nothing counts until you say yes. Fully local: no account, no server, your time never leaves your Mac. 11 MB. Free for 7 days, then $49 once or $3.99/month.
Enrichment
- Theme
- meeting scheduling and notetaking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- time tracking tool for meeting attendees
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While menu bar apps are straightforward, reliably tapping into macOS privacy-protected APIs, CoreAudio microphone usage detection, and local calendar sync requires specialized native macOS engineering.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/macOS menu bar app using EventKit for calendar access and CoreAudio APIs (or HAL listeners) to detect active input device states without recording. The tricky part is reliably identifying which specific application (Zoom, Teams) holds the audio stream across macOS version permission sandboxes and managing low battery consumption.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 562 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #298 of 563 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tallydial · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Meeting Alerter · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Minimal Time + Count · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- EarnTime · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TimeTrackKit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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