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RescueTime
Boost productivity with RescueTime's automatic time tracking software and timesheet app for freelancers, small businesses, project management, and employees.
Where it stands
3.7 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.3 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Facts stated3.4 / 5 · weight 30%
How many of the five facts the tool's own pages state
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on RescueTime yet. Facts checked 2026-11-01. How tests work
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Should you use RescueTime?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-01.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “Cancelling a paid plan returns you to a free Lite plan; its features and limits are not described. All paid plans have a 14-day…”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: signup, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Time tracking
Measured signals
4.3 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from RescueTime's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 91 ms.
- Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy2 / 54 third-party tracking services found: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 10 classified comments from 3 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“I think it'd be super interesting to try to get a good cross-section with RescueTime. Even if we buried our users in demographic questions, we'd still have a hard time get truly representative data. do this same analysis…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I recently reinstalled RescueTime as I wanted to better track my productivity since I am studying deep learning and soon doing the Udacity self-driving car engineer nanodegree. My condolences to the RescueTime team and…”
Read in the thread
Threads: RescueTime (YC 08) Data: Are Men more Productive than Women? (2010, 62 comments) · Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime (YC W08), has died (2017, 47 comments) · RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000 (2009, 38 comments)
These facts may be out of date. One of the official pages they came from changed on 2026-11-10, after we last read it. Check the tool's own pages before you rely on a price or a limit.
- Free tier
- Cancelling a paid plan returns you to a free Lite plan; its features and limits are not described. All paid plans have a 14-day free trial.
- Paid plan
- Solo $7/mo billed annually or $9 monthly. Solo+ $12 annual or $15 monthly. Team $10/user annual or $12 monthly. Team+ $16/user annual or $18 monthly.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not applicable.
- Where files go
- Privacy page does not say where activity data is stored; storage uses volume encryption. Deleting an account removes activity data (up to 3 days, except audit logs). Free account data older than 15 months is deleted automatically.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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Tasks and scores
- Time trackingNot tested yet
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