Menu bar time tracker for macOS

Track time without losing your rhythm.

Takt lives in your menu bar, keeps every byte on your Mac and books time straight into Azure DevOps.

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macOS 26 · Apple Silicon · MIT · v

What it does

Start

Two seconds to a running timer.

Press ⌥⇧T, type two letters, hit Return.

Honest time

Pauses and parallel work, on the record.

Run timers side by side.

Analytics

See where the week actually went.

Stacked days, projects, heatmap.

Azure DevOps

Every minute booked. Exactly once.

Takt writes Completed Work back as differences.

One day, three moments

Start.

Coffee in one hand.

Interrupted.

A call pulls you away.

Booked.

Close the day.

Azure DevOps

T API-Dokumentation #4711

B API-Timeout bei Export #4698

S Rate-Limit für die API #4655

↩ Start ⌥↩ Parallel

T Task 4711 synced · rev 18

API-Dokumentation

Completed Work ~~6.25~~ 8.50 h

+2.25 h

Takt: +2.25 h on 10/07/2026 · takt:7f3a9c…

Feels like it shipped with your Mac.

Swift 6, SwiftUI and AppKit.

Takt main window: a week of entries as coloured blocks on a calendar grid

Menu bar popover with search, running timers and recent tasks

Analytics with totals, bars per day, a project donut and a heatmap

Local-first
Keyboard-first
Undo, not dialogs
Ready for IT

Get in rhythm.

$ brew install --cask nimble-123/tap/takt

Download the DMG v

macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon

Pre-release builds are not notarized yet.

Rolling out to a team?