# RescueTime — Time tracking, on autopilot

> Automated time tracking, distraction blocking, and productivity analysis. (iPhone/iPad app by RescueTime.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rescuetime/id1629924958 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [RescueTime](https://appshunter.io/developer/860773794)
- Category: Productivity, Business
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings · 27 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.4 · 61 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2022-11-03
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rescuetime/id1629924958/reviews.md

## What is RescueTime?

RescueTime helps you track time, block distractions, manage goals, and understand your full workday across phone and desktop. Together this gives you a clear view of your habits and the tools to improve them. Understand where your time goes, stay focused when it matters, and build better workdays without extra effort.

One subscription works across all your devices, syncing your data to give you a complete picture of your time on mobile and desktop.

**Created For iOS**
RescueTime for iOS brings powerful, simple focus tools to your phone:

• Automatic app tracking: see app activity with productivity ratings and daily and weekly summaries (optional Screen Time permission).
• Focus Sessions with optional app blocking: stay on task with time-boxing, optionally grant permission to block distractions in real time.
• Project tracking: log time to specific projects and track progress across sessions and timers.
• Offline time: add meetings, calls, and other offline activities to complete your day.
• Reporting: View and manage your time across all your devices in the app.
• Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian.

**Focus Sessions**
Start a Focus Session when you need uninterrupted time to work. RescueTime blocks distractions, tracks your progress, and delivers a summary when you're done.
Use timers for time boxing or to track open-ended tasks. Sessions and timers can be linked to projects, so your focused time always counts toward something meaningful.

**Full Workday Perspective**
Install RescueTime on your desktop to see the full picture. Your activity, focus sessions, and progress sync seamlessly across devices. Please note that RescueTime for desktop is only available in English.

**Goals And Insights**
Set daily goals for focused work, screen-free time, or better online habits. RescueTime tracks your progress automatically and shows how your behavior aligns with your goals.
Weekly summaries highlight trends over time, so you can see what's working and what's not.

**Permissions**
Several optional features require elevated permissions. Reporting: tracking phone app activity requires Screen Time permission, and you can choose to use this feature or not. Focus Sessions: using the optional app blocking part of sessions requires Screen Time permission in order to offer real-time intervention.

**Plans**
Solo Focus includes automatic tracking with full history, Focus Sessions with real-time app blocking, offline activity logging, goals with daily targets, alerts and automations, advanced filtering, and integrations.

Solo+ includes everything in Solo Focus, plus automated project and task tracking with RescueTime Timesheets. Link activities and timers to projects to automatically generate timesheets or track progress across work and personal goals.

Free includes automatic basic tracking, daily and weekly reports, the Productivity Pulse, and two weeks of activity history. Offline time logging, project tracking, and distraction blocking require a subscription.

**For Teams**
RescueTime also offers team plans with shared projects, team dashboards, manager insights, and centralized settings. Team plans are only available at rescuetime.com.

**Privacy**
RescueTime does not record keystrokes, capture screenshots, or read message and website content.
You control what is tracked, can pause tracking at any time, and can export or delete your data whenever you choose.

## Key features

- Automatic time tracking
- Distraction blocking (Focus Sessions)
- Activity categorization
- Task timers
- Offline activity logging
- Home screen widgets
- Productivity goals and alerts

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solo Monthly | $9.00 | per month |
| Solo Yearly | $84.00 | per year |
| Solo+ Yearly | $143.99 | per year |
| Solo+ Monthly | $15.00 | per month |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 27)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rescuetime/id1629924958/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Very helpful

*2025-11-10*

Very helpful for tracking time - especially when used with the desktop app.

### 1/5 — Not useful app

*2025-09-22*

It’s not about rescue your time. It’s about wasting your time. Don’t do it, pls

### 1/5 — 無料プランが選べない。

*2025-07-25*

iOSではいると無料プランが選べない仕様になっていて残念。無料で使えるようにして欲しい。

### 1/5 — This app will not track your app usage on ios.

*2025-07-03*

I have paid $78 hoping to get a comprehensive app usage on my ipad/iphone, BUT this app failed to do so. It only gives you a lumsum ios total usage time and the activity is “ ios device “ without even helping you sorting ipad and iphone usages.

### 1/5 — Please bring back desktop stats to the mobile app

*2025-06-22*

The previous version allowed you to see desktop and mobile stats from the mobile app but now it feels like two different products. I really liked being able to check my desktop stats from the mobile app but now it only shows my mobile stats for the day. Why can’t we see weekly productivity scores just like the desktop app?

### 5/5 — New version is great!

*2025-03-27*

Since they updated with screen time API, this app has been stellar. I’ve really enjoyed all the recent RescueTime updates.

### 1/5 — Worthless App

*2025-03-24*

This app has been free for years, I have had it on my PC for a long time. They now want $15 a month for TIME TRACKING, just get a netflix subscription with the money, there are 1000 apps that do what this does for free.

### 2/5 — Basic

*2025-01-08*

I tried RescueTime with the two-week trial, but it didn’t live up to expectations. The app only tracks time in a basic, non-automated way, forcing you to manually tag and enter time. It doesn’t provide the detailed app usage breakdowns I need, like timestamps or time spent per app at different hours. I expected more, especially for a paid version. Not worth it.

### 1/5 — Free version does not work with iPad

*2024-12-16, version 2024.8*

The free version does not work with iPad and from what I heard the paid version does not either because the iPad does not allow app tracking. So, F this app.

### 1/5 — Appalling UI/UX

*2024-08-03, version 2024.4*

This app has great potential, but expecting users to pay for this is a scandal.

## Frequently asked questions about RescueTime

### What does RescueTime do?

RescueTime automatically tracks how you spend your time on your computer and mobile devices. It helps you understand your work habits, block distractions during focused work sessions, and set goals to improve your productivity.

### What are the key features of the mobile app?

The mobile app offers Focus Sessions to block distracting apps and websites, activity tracking for your iOS device, task timers, offline activity logging, and home screen widgets for quick access to sessions and timers.

### How much does RescueTime cost?

The app offers a free version with in-app purchases, including automatically renewing monthly and annual subscriptions for advanced features. Specific pricing details can be found within the app or on their website.

### What devices is RescueTime compatible with?

RescueTime has a desktop application for computers and a mobile app for iOS devices. The iOS app pairs with the desktop app to provide a comprehensive view of your time usage across platforms.

### How can RescueTime help me be more productive?

By automatically tracking your time, RescueTime reveals where your time is going, highlighting productive activities and distractions. Features like Focus Sessions actively help you minimize interruptions, while timers and goals encourage focused work on specific tasks.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3063 — 2026-08-03

RescueTime for iOS is now more customizable, informative, and easier to use.

• Create and manage Mobile Goals directly in the app, with progress shown on Home.
• Customize Home by reordering or hiding cards for your desktop and phone reports.
• Explore new Pickups and Locations insights, richer Productivity details, app-category breakdowns, and improved Focus Streak reporting.
• Follow the new Getting Started experience with guided walkthroughs and videos for Focus Sessions, goals, activity categorization, manual time, and Feed.
• Use the redesigned Focus Session and Timer controls with precise time entry, improved blocking and location settings, and streamlined project and task selection. Tap anywhere on a recent session or saved timer to start it.
• Enjoy refreshed Feed, Saved Timer, goal, report, Settings, dark mode, sheet, and calendar designs.
• Includes fixes for dashboard customization, productivity and distraction charts, onboarding, iPad Screen Time selection, Action Sheet behavior, and overall stability.

### 3040 — 2026-06-03

App Optimizations
Saved Timer Polish
Focus Opportunity Polish

### 3038 — 2026-05-23

- Fix Productivity Pulse Card current day value
- Fix UI inconsistencies on iOS 17
- Simplify Onboarding
- Improve Scheduled Focus Session flow
- Add Saved Timers to Action Sheet
- Various other UI fixes

### 3037 — 2026-05-16

Fixed alert display in Feed tab.

### 3036 — 2026-05-15

This is our biggest RescueTime for iOS update yet: a richer native app experience with synced phone and desktop insights, new focus tools, and more ways to understand and control your workday.

What's new:

• A redesigned Home dashboard with goals, Productivity Pulse, time logged, focus patterns, distractions, and phone activity insights.
• A new Feed with daily and weekly reviews, focus opportunities, alerts, and other timely workday updates.
• Native alert management, so you can create, view, update, and remove alerts in the app.
• A new Add Activity flow for logging offline work from the Timeline.
• Improved Focus Sessions, saved timers, widgets, and the center action button, including clearer running-session status.
• New goal management and better project/task support for tracking focused work.
• Updated navigation, login, subscription, settings, date picker, dark mode, and card designs.
• Faster, more reliable dashboard and phone activity refreshes, plus improved diagnostics and stability.

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