Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes in ScreenTimerAI.

[1.3.2] - December 3, 2025 ()

Added

  • Incognito Mode Detection: Automatically detect Incognito/Private windows (currently for Chrome-based browsers and Safari). These activities are filtered out for maximum privacy.
  • Activity Filtering: New filter list to exclude activities containing specific keywords from your activity log, accessible from Settings > Activity Filter.
  • Working Hours Support: Define specific working hours to automatically start and stop tracking, accessible from Settings > Working Hours.
  • Week View Modes: You can now toggle between "Category" and "Group" views in the Weekly activity charts, giving you more flexible insights.
  • Week Views Statistics: Added interactive statistics to the Weekly activity charts, giving you more insights into your productivity.
Weekly Activity Distribution

Improved

  • Smoother Onboarding: Updated flow to help set up working hours from the start.

[1.2.0] - November 26, 2025 ()

Added

  • Advanced Category Management: We've introduced a more sophisticated way to manage your categories. You can now effortlessly remove empty categories. For categories with existing activities, we offer flexible options: seamlessly migrate your data to another category or delete the category while preserving your activity history.

Fixed

  • Blank Screen on Autostart: Fixed an issue where the app would show a blank screen when starting automatically.

[1.0.0] - November 24, 2025 ()

Added

  • Tracking Control: Added the ability to "stop tracking until midnight" via the Tracker Button, giving you more flexible control over when the app records your activity.
  • Customizable AI Categorization: Added the ability to select specific AI models for categorization in the API Key settings, giving you more control over how your activities are automatically sorted.

Improved

  • Smarter Distraction Alerts: Improved "Break Reminder" and distraction detection logic, including a new cooldown mechanism and fixes to prevent alerts from appearing after you've already left a distracting app, making the experience less intrusive.
  • Better Category Management: Major improvements to the Categories page, including drag-and-drop functionality, inline editing for category/group names, and a new color picker for better visual organization.
  • Improved Tray Icon: The system tray icon has been enhanced with better loading states, transparent padding, rounded corners, and "view mode" support, providing a cleaner and more informative status at a glance.
  • Smoother Onboarding & Setup: Integrated autostart functionality so the app can launch at login, along with improvements to the onboarding flow (tooltips) and a refactored, tabbed Settings page for easier configuration.
  • More Reliable Updates: Implemented a robust update system with periodic checks, retry logic, and an update overlay to ensure you're always running the latest version smoothly.
  • Visual Polish & UI Consistency: Numerous UI fixes and refinements, including adjusted spacing in the Category Tree, fixed heights for charts, and better layout handling for the pie chart and top disruptors list.
  • Performance & Stability: Fixed issues where updating a category would reload the whole app, improved single-instance management (preventing multiple copies of the app from running), and adjusted heartbeat thresholds for better stability.
  • Cleaner Data Visualization: The "Usage Pattern" and "Top Disruptions" views have been refined to only show relevant data (e.g., hiding empty categories), making your productivity insights clearer and more actionable.

[0.6.0] - August 16, 2025 ()

Added

Tray Icon:

  • Paused state is now displayed in the tray icon
  • Changing the view from "Grouped" to "Categories" also update the tray icon Tracking Options:
  • You can now pause tracking until the end of the day

[0.5.9] - August 15, 2025 ()

Added

Settings: You can now select the Gemini AI model for categorization

Model Selector

Tray Icon: Improved tray icon look and feel

Tray Icon Before

Tray Icon Before

Tray Icon After

Tray Icon After

[0.5.6] - August 8, 2025 ()

Added

  • Start at Login: You can now configure the app to start automatically when you sign in to your computer.

[0.5.5] - August 7, 2025 ()

Improved

  • Alert Behaviour: Reset alert cooldown when user dismisses alert so you don't get too many alerts in a row

[0.5.4] - August 6, 2025 ()

Added

  • Top Disruptors: You can now edit the category of the top disruptors to correct wrong categorization
  • Updater: You don't have to restart the app in order to receive updates
Top disruptors with category editing

Improved

  • Categories: Make it easier to drag/drop categories; inline edit category name and color; categories now show occurence count.

Categories Page Before

Old categories view

Categories Page After

New categories view

Category Name/Color Inline Editing

Demo of editing category names and colors
  • Inactive Categories: Rework inactive categories view to be more intuitive and user-friendly.

Inactive Categories Page Before

Old inactive categories view

Inactive Categories Page After

New inactive categories view
  • Fix: Top disruptors not showing up properly
  • Fix: Distraction alert showing up even when user already left the distracting activity

[0.5.1] - August 4, 2025 ()

Improved

  • Fix: Update category in the distraction alert window does not work properly

[0.5.0] - August 2, 2025 ()

Added

  • Distraction Alert: Show category and group that caused the alert
  • Distraction Alert: You can now directly change category of your activity from the alert window to prevent unwanted alert
  • Activity Log: You can now manually change category of your activity from the activity log

Improved

  • Categories: Drag and drop now look smaller and more subtle
  • Usage Patterns: Only show categories that have activities

[0.4.8] - July 31, 2025 ()

Added

  • Distraction Alert: Alert now shows what triggered the alert

[0.4.7] - July 30, 2025 ()

Added

  • Stability: Ensure only one instance of the app is running at a time
  • Settings: New settings page to manage your app preferences
  • Distraction Alert: Allow user to disable alert
  • Dock Behaviour: When all windows are hidden or closed, the dock icon will be hidden as well since selecting it won't do anything. The app window can then be openned by clicking the tray icon (only the tray icon is visible all the time).

[0.4.4] - July 19, 2025 ()

Added

  • User Settings: You can now toggle between "Show Grouped Categories" and "Show All Categories"
  • Onboarding: You can now change groups vs categories view during onboarding.
  • Onboarding: You can now edit categories during the onboarding process.
  • Categories: Added the guide to create categories similar to the Onboarding Process.
  • Categories: You can now edit category name.

Improved

  • Fix: Gradient effect on top disruptors panel

[0.4.0] - July 12, 2025 ()

This is a major update that adds a lot of new features to the app.

Added

  • Category Grouping: You can now group categories together to create a custom category group
Category Grouping

Category Grouping

  • Onboarding with category grouping: Onboarding now organize categories into "Work" and "Distraction" groups to help you get started faster
Onboarding Category Grouping

Onboarding with Category Grouping

  • Pause Tracking: You can now pause tracking for a specific amount of time (5, 30, 60 minutes) or indefinitely
Pause Tracking Interface

Pause Tracking Controls

  • Tray Icon Preview: You can now decide how many minutes of activity the tray icon should display
Tray Icon Preview

Tray Icon Preview

  • Show Topy disruptors: You can now see the disruption sources by hour/day
Top Disruptors

Top Disruptors

  • Disruptor Break Reminder System: Intelligent detection of excessive switching between productive and distracting activities, with automatic break suggestions to prevent context-switching fatigue
Distraction Alert

Distraction Alert

Improved

  • Fix: Closing window freezes app, now closing window will hide it to prevent data loss
  • Fix: Tracking off after system crashes
  • Fix: Acitivity sometimes not resumed after screen unlock
  • Usage Patterns: Remove date to make UI more clean
  • Categories: Reworked category management to be more intuitive and user-friendly

[0.2.4] - June 19, 2025 ()

Added

  • License: Subscription users can now use their own API key for AI categorization
  • Onboarding: New onboarding flow for new users to help user define their first categories
Onboarding

Onboarding

  • Timeline Minimap: New timeline minimap for better visualization of activity flow

Improved

  • Dashboard: Uncategorized activities are now displayed in a neutral color in minimap
  • Dashboard: Tooltips now show text with line breaks
  • Categories: Reworked category management to be more intuitive and user-friendly
  • Fix: Category database not being initialized

[0.2.0] - June 18, 2025 ()

Added

  • Heatmap View: New visual representation of productivity patterns showing usage throughout the day
  • Cached Activity Categorization: Previously categorized activities are now instantly recognized for faster processing
  • Automatic Data Refresh: Dashboard now updates automatically when switching back to the app
  • Activity Duration Limits: Built-in safeguards to prevent faulty data from affecting insights
  • Custom Gemini API Key Support: Pay-once users can now use their own Google Gemini API key for AI categorization

Improved

  • Category Management: More intuitive creation and editing of categories with better layouts and descriptions
  • Activity Timeline: Better gap handling and cleaner time display with more consistent formatting
  • Activity Previews: Quick glimpses of recent activities available from the main dashboard
  • User Interface: Refined category colors, improved layouts with better spacing, and enhanced tooltips
  • Performance: More efficient background monitoring with minimal system impact
  • Error Handling: More robust performance to ensure data safety
  • License Management: Better subscription handling for pay-once users
  • Database Operations: More robust database operations for smoother performance

Changed

  • Time formatting is now more consistent across all views
  • Color scheme updated for better visual consistency throughout the app
  • Timeline visualization improved for better activity flow representation

[0.1.0] - April 17, 2025 ()

First public release

Added

  • Activity Tracking: Automatically tracks what apps and websites you use throughout the day
  • Smart Categories: Organize your activities into custom categories like Work, Entertainment, Social Media, etc.
  • AI Assistant: Get intelligent insights about your productivity patterns through chat
  • Daily Timeline: See exactly how you spent your time with a visual timeline of your activities
  • Dark Mode: Choose between light and dark themes for comfortable viewing
  • Menu Bar Integration: Quick access to your activity data right from your Mac's menu bar
  • Activity Management: Delete or edit individual activity entries when needed

What You Can Do

  • Track Your Time: See which apps and websites take up most of your day
  • Understand Your Habits: Discover patterns in how you spend your time
  • Organize Activities: Sort your tracked time into meaningful categories
  • Review Your Day: Look back at your daily activity timeline to see where time went
  • Customize Your Experience: Set up categories that match your work and life style