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Everything. It tracks all PC and phone usage, it separates into productivity levels and categories. It is really good to see if you are wasting too much time and it gives you the push you need to get better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes under Ubuntu, it gets stuck, so you need to restart it. But it doesn't happen very often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the dashboard and the ability to label sites as productive and non-productive. You can really monitor and measure everything you're doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That I can't plant trees in this app, that would be really motivating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the detailed reporting that RescueTime offers with regard to my computer and non-computer activities. It tracks everything I do from emails, to websites, to even what I do on my Android phone with the RescueTime Android app. It's very affordable for all the great features that you get. It helps you understand where your time goes and where you can make improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really do not dislike anything about RescueTime. It's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Rescue Time for a couple of years. I like how the icon itself is discreet, but it keeps me honest about how I am using my time. It does a pretty good job organizing the types of sites and apps I visit, and it's easy to recategorize when something on my weekly report looks wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only real issue I have with Rescue Time is that it occasionally mis-characterizes sites I visit in a strange way. The longer I use it, though, the less frequently that seems to happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RescueTime worked in the background and was able to quantify my time using different computer software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were a lot of emails sent by the company that filled up my mailbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like this tool because it helps me count where I am spending my time while working. I like summarized weekly emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that sometimes desktop app isn't working properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rescue Time works on a variety of devices from phones/tablets to computers. It has easy to install add-ons for Browsers as well. All of those things make it easy and efficient to track how you spend your time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found that the tracking was not always reliable, and given that I am relying on RescueTime to track my usage, this is a major drawback. For example, it only recorded me as using Powerpoint for 40 minutes when I was giving a 3-hour presentation. This may be because I wasn't actively modifying the presentation or perhaps because my presentation was on more than one screen, but it made me doubt how accurate Rescuetime is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Discrete tool that runs on your machine, monitoring your production during working hours. Set your productive tasks and goals and see how you do in meeting your targets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Design of the website is a bit dated. Mac program could should daily stats from the menubar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rescuetime runs in the background with minimal unnecessary interactions. It keeps track of what windows I'm working in, including what sites I visit. It gives me feedback whenever I want it to keep track of my productivity or to identify where I'm wasting time. It's customizable in terms of categories and how things are assigned to categories--e.g., for me, a certain program that would normally be considered a distraction is classified as physical exercise because I only use it while riding my bike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's minimally useful for keeping track of things offline / off computer. You can enter offline time manually, but there's no seamless integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would not have finished my dissertation without RescueTime. Everything about it is essential. It automatically tracks my on-computer time, gives me the option of tracking off-computer time, and sends me stats each week. With the paid version you also have the ability to block applications/ websites that drain your productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much that I dislike about RescueTime. Maybe that it's possible to get bogged down in settings on the dashboard... or that I had a hard time coming up with meaningful categories for my offline time. The one tricky thing is that some of my research (my work) is based on social media, and RescueTime automatically blocks that, but that was easy to change as I needed (most of the time I left it though, because social media is a total drain). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.