# Page 3 | RescueTime Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is RescueTime the right Time Tracking solution for you? Explore 141 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/103317/RescueTime/reviews --- RescueTime 4.6 (141) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/103317/RescueTime/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 3 - Reviews of RescueTime ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 141 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Mitch B. Co-Founder E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Keeps me honest with screen time" January 24, 2019 5.0 I've been a Rescuetime user for years and don't see myself stopping anytime soon. Pros Each week I take the report and show it to my accountability group, with the goal of decreasing my computer time week by week. Rescuetime makes it very easy to track and spot trends. Cons No cons that I can think of. Once I had categorized all of my different applications and activities it works well. Review Source Kudzai C. Accounts and Finance Accounting Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The tool of champions!" January 16, 2019 3.0 Pros RescueTime is an absolutely brilliant time tracking tool. It has given me a very simple but accurate tool for tracking exactly how much time I spend on projects. It's brilliant because it tracks time by app but also by websites visited. So I can include research time and reading time into the time I spend on projects. It tracks multiple devices which is great because I tend to switch between devices when working on projects. It's non intrusive and runs completely silently in the background with a simple weekly email and all data available via the mobile app. Cons It would be great to set up project and task tracking within the app so we can group our activities. Review Source Stephen S. Attorney and Counselor at Law Law Practice Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Affordable, Easy-to-Use Productivity and Time Tracking Solution" March 19, 2018 5.0 RescueTime allows me to keep tabs on my self essentially. I can see what I've been doing and how long I was doing it. Specifically, it allows me to see how much time I wasted on Facebook and how much time I spent working on a project. Pros RescueTime requires little to no configuration or attention. You simply install it on your computer and/or install the various browser plugins and let it do its thing - tracking your activities and time. Cons As an analytics nerd, I would like to see RescueTime have even more tracking features and abilities. The one con that I will mention is having to specifically allow RescueTime to specifically track what is being done in certain websites/applications. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Principal Consultant Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Essential for Telecommuters and anyone billing hourly " June 14, 2018 5.0 ability to see how focused i am from day to day. Pros seamlessly integrates with all browsers. the same account can run on multiple machines. the default setup is pretty accurate and easy to customize to your productivity tendencies. Cons viewing trends over multiple years can be slow. Id love the ability to generate a lifetime report for view later. Review Source Flavio A. Creative Director Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Automatic Time Tracking" September 25, 2019 5.0 Time sheets and time tracking can be painful. RescueTime takes away the stress by working in the background to identify the tasks you're working on, which is great. Pros Effortless time tracking with a 'set and forget' kind of approach. RescueTime works in the background to identify the tasks you're working on and provides insightful reports on productivity. Cons Integration with other systems would be invaluable as we've recently moved to a different solution that integrates with some of the other products we use internally. Review Source Adithya U. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Excellent tool to track your/employee productive time" November 29, 2018 5.0 Pros \* Great easy to setup tool to track all activities done in system. \* Extremely accurate regarding the activities and time usage. \* Excellent reporting to generate and analyze the pattern. \* Can be used to track Employee productivity. \* Not a privacy nightmare as many sensitive data is not captured. \* Can be used to track our computer usage and help us to be more productive. \* Supports mobile devices and linux,Mac as well. Cons \*Bit expensive for premium version/organization plans. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Head Athletic Trainer Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "What did I do all day?" September 7, 2018 5.0 Pros Useful resource for seeing what online tasks consume our days. Nonintrusive, but monitors what windows and sites are open and consuming our time throughout the day. Very customizable --even on the free plans. Cons Initially, putting your tasks into categories (productive, not productive, etc) as well as attaching meaning to your tasks (communication, news, work-related, personal, etc) can take a while, but it pays off in the end with more relevant reports at week's end. Review Source David K. Senior Product Specialist / Business Analyst Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Surprisingly accurate and very insightful" May 8, 2018 5.0 gives great insight into your day and helps keep yourself in check from distractions! Pros It was easy to get set up and customize what behavior is considered valuable or not to my work day. It gave me a good personal metric to keep myself on track throughout my work week. Cons Nothing really, it delivers what it promises and even works on your desktop! I did not trying using this with a team and only used it personally, i imagine that with a team there are ways to beat the machine Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for small business owners & entrepreneurs" June 20, 2018 5.0 Pros Love using RescueTime to quantify my computer usage. Gives me great metrics for productivity and works seamlessly in the background. Cons Not much to not like, it does what it says it does. Would like more tools to improve productivity during the day as RescueTime is so invisible you forget its running. Review Source Madhu K. Self Employed Individual Internet Marketer and Blogger Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "RescueTime Review" June 10, 2022 5.0 Best product to use, no interference and it works automatically on the background. This is a must for focus. Pros Iam using a free version of the RescueTime installed on my Laptop. The product is easy to use, easy to implement and good user interface. The aspect of a overview of total weekly performance monitored by time that offers me a knowledge of time spent including productivity concerns is what I enjoy the best. As an affiliate, I am promoting this product through my Blog and social network. Cons I couldn't find the least part as I am comfortable with it. Will be updated in future. Review Source Christian M. Interface Analyst II Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "RescueTime is a sanity saver!" November 3, 2018 5.0 Being a salaried employee working remotely, it’s hard to track your time when your workload is constantly heavy and changing. Tracking how long I spend on certain applications and getting rid of distractions is so easy with RescueTime. It’s not expensive at all for Premium and is worth every penny! Pros I love the dashboard and how I can categorize each application to accurately track my time. I get an IFTTT e-mail every night telling me how long I worked. Cons There’s nothing I don’t like the least about the software. Review Source Michal L. First Assistant to the Director for Special Projects Legal Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "RescueTime lets me see how much "business" work I do each week." May 7, 2018 5.0 Pros 1\. Easy to use. 2. Easy to customize/configure to track the things I do. 3. I use the free version, which has great features for free. 4. Being competitive, I like to try and beat my previous week's score and be more productive. Cons There are few things I don't like about RescueTime. They have new versions out frequently, but the install is completely painless (does not require a computer restart), so it is a very minor inconvenience. Review Source Jordan D. Marketing Analytics Specialist Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Bought This After Hearing About It From Tim Ferris..." March 10, 2019 4.0 Pros Like any productivity tool, I subscribed because I wanted to hold myself more accountable and analyze the applications and the websites that I visit from day to day. It's been amazing to see how much time I'm going through my emails and adjust based on how I want to make my workflow more productive. I love that the product is simple enough to set up and monitor my computer usage without any manual processes. Cons The availability of the tool without many videos or sources on how to get the most out of RescueTime. I'm still finding new ways to incorporate this in my workflow though. Review Source KG Kate G. Digital Marketing Strategy Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Game Changing App If You Track Your Time Hourly" December 21, 2018 5.0 It's a great way for me to track my time across different computers. I use it to make sure I'm recording all of my time in my daily time sheets that I use to bill clients at the end of the month. Pros I really like that it's simple and efficient at tracking and grouping the time I spend online so that I can use that data to update my daily timesheets. Cons It would be great if it would group some of the time into more specific categories - it will just say "Adwords" and it would be great if they had the campaign number so I can see which client where I actually spent my time. That said, I use the free version so that feels like a crap compliant considering I use it all the time and it's free. Review Source Gerardo Esteban C. JavaScript Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "What I like most of rescuetime is it's ability to detect when an user is not using the computer." March 4, 2020 5.0 It was great, it solves the problem of not doing overtime or tracking extra paid time. Pros I like how RescueTime tracks all the apps the user has opened and use as well as the browsers links. I like it's idle time feature. And their reports and graphics. Cons You can't track by project and make estimations about each time-consuming project in the company. The promp ask you about some time idle is so useful but is not active by default. Review Source Yannick W. Education Program Associate Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Interesting Tool but doesn't always work" April 12, 2019 4.0 Pros \- very automated, install and forget about it - easy to see how productive you are and set goals Cons \- sometimes doesn't detect activity when it's happening, skewing results - sometimes not very good at identifying the nature of programs - privacy concerns Review Source Sorin A. Marketer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Find where you're leaking time" May 31, 2019 4.0 I've used RescueTime to find out why I wasn't getting a lot of work done after work. After I've used it for about a week, the results were clear: YouTube was taking over hours and hours of my time. I started using it less and focused more on my writing, which gave me more pleasure anyway. Pros Once you set this up, it's so easy to forget about it. Few pieces of software actually encourage you to NOT use it. I really appreciated this. Only browser extension and another small installer for your operating system means you're ready to monitor your time very fast. Cons There aren't a lot of features to talk about. So it's hard to even call this a con. But perhaps other pieces of software that do similar things have more things to use. I would've like to be able to more specifically fine tune hours of operation, the software or websites it should monitor. Reports aren't amazing - at least in the free version. Overall it feels very barebones in the features department. Review Source Kaila C. Design Manager Real Estate Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Not the best time managment software but not bad either" June 16, 2018 3.0 Pros Its a simple software to use, that keeps track of how and where you use your time on the computer, it´s really helpful to see at the end of the day how much time you spent doing what and to complete the goals you set for your self and it helps a lot knowing really how much "working" time you spend not being productive Cons Since i work on different projects but on the same software or webpage it became hard to track how much of thet time was actually spent on the different programs, so it didnt really work for me Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Main editor Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great tool to track your attention habits" March 30, 2019 4.0 Use this with care, as you should first be aware of what you want to measure. Pros Rescuetime tracks the time you spend in all your applications. It’s a good tool to track your habits, as you see which applications you have used the most. After using this, you will have a report on where your attention went during the day. If you have never done the exercise of auditing yourself, give rescuetime a chance. Cons I don’t agree to the concept of ‘tracking productivity’. The fact that you use an application will not tell you if you are or not more productive, as this tool (or any other) cannot measure the value that you produce. It goes worse with the “organizations” version available, where managers can see the aggregate time of its employees. But it’s still useful if you are struggling with your attention and you think that it’s going to somewhere it shouldn’t. Review Source PD Paulo D. Director Legal Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for managing your time" November 30, 2019 4.0 Great way of making sure you're not exceeding your daily quota of distracting/non-productive apps. Pros RescueTime is quite complete. I like it that it also analyses the websites you use, not just the apps, and also allows you to get all information as one, that is, from your phone, personal computer and work laptop, and so on. Cons Managing the categories is sometimes a bit of a hassle. Sometimes you access YouTube for a legit reason during work, and sometimes you don't. And it works in a way that you just determine if a site is more or less distracting, regardless of the time. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "If you aren’t tracking your work , you are wasting time." January 14, 2019 5.0 Pros RescueTime is one of a kind app that - once installed - keeps track of all activities you do on your machine. Later it sends you a beautiful summary of where you spent time, where you wasted time and more. Cons Frankly none. We didn’t really find any thing in RescueTime which can qualify as a cons. It is 10/10 from us. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co-Founder and CEO Computer Games Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for freelancers and time-conscious people" May 11, 2018 5.0 Pros RescueTime is amazing for tracking your own time. Freelancers and consultants can use it to stay time conscious. Individuals can be more conscientious. Cons Not many downsides! The software looks and feels a little clunky, and I wish you had more flexibility with the reporting and activity summaries. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Modeller Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Use it understand where my time goes. " June 30, 2018 4.0 Overall: An eye-opener or me and for many people Pros This software requires no set up at all. Everything is done automagically. Later, if needed, you can re-categorize some tasks. For example, if you are searching candidates in social networks you can tag this time as productive. Cons Cons: Nothing really. Sometimes it is hard to see the picture of your time habits with a helicopter view, as this software tends to focus on large tasks. Review Source MN Maciej N. Consultant / Freelance Credit Analyst Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very reliable time management app" February 7, 2021 5.0 I underestimated RescueTime for too long. Thanks to a great blog they have (many useful time management articles) I stumbled upon their productivity course. The quality of that course made me rethink using RescueTime on a daily basis. I recommend it to every busy professional. Pros The most powerful feature of RescueTime is tracking on what activities you spend your time and when you do this. The power comes especially from being on every device you use. Cons I would like to see more features inside the mobile app. Especially regarding easily logging offline time. Review Source Lilian M. Digital Marketer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Time Management" January 31, 2020 5.0 Great product a must have for both the machine and the phone. Pros It helped me in managing my time and properly allocating the hours in my day. Rescue time is just so amazing that it showed me where i was spending much of my time on. Cons At times it can just record the time like you were on a particular application even though you were not at it. Reason for choosing RescueTime Rescue time was a bit easier to use and gave more detailed results Review Source Similar Products Featured