Dial • Time Tracker
Time tracker that catches the meetings you forgot
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: employee time and attendance tracking software · 73 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Menu Bar Apps
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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 : 1386 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1181 of 1387 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tracked · ph · 2026-10-31 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TimeSnap App · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- TimeGrow+ — Automatic Time Tracker · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- FelixCal · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- OutTime · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Tallydial · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FocusBae · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MeetKeeper · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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