Døgn vs RescueTime
Last updated: July 2026
RescueTime automatically tracks how you spend time across apps and sites and turns it into productivity and attention reports, with focus sessions to help you concentrate. It is about understanding and improving your own habits. Døgn also tracks automatically, but toward billable project time you can turn into an invoice.
Where RescueTime is the better fit
- Automatic, hands-off tracking of apps and websites.
- Rich productivity and attention reports across your whole digital day.
- Focus sessions and distraction blocking to protect deep work.
- Cross-platform coverage beyond just the Mac.
- Great for understanding where your attention actually goes.
Where Døgn is the better fit
- Built around billable project time, clients and per-project rates with live earnings.
- Automatic AI-session tracking with on-device summaries as entry descriptions.
- A local KveikGraph time-entry sync to the living invoice draft owned by tjent.
- Local data store by default — no Døgn cloud account or telemetry.
- One-time purchase, plus folo meetings imported as billable time.
At a glance
| Feature | Døgn | RescueTime |
|---|---|---|
| Main goal | Billable time → invoice | Productivity & attention reports |
| Pricing | One-time purchase | Free tier + subscription |
| Platform | macOS native | Cross-platform |
| Where data lives | On your Mac | Cloud-backed |
| Clients & rates | Core feature | Not the focus |
| Focus sessions | Not a focus | Core feature |
| Time → invoice | Local graph → tjent draft | Not a focus |
The short version
Pick RescueTime if you want automatic wellbeing and productivity reports and help protecting your focus.
Pick Døgn if you want billable project time stored locally on your Mac by default and linked to the living draft in tjent.
Questions, answered
Does Døgn report on my productivity like RescueTime?
No — that is RescueTime’s strength. Døgn reports time and earnings per client and project so you can bill it, rather than scoring your productivity.
Is Døgn’s data local like I would want for tracking?
Døgn stores primary tracking data on your Mac by default, with no Døgn cloud account or telemetry; configured webhooks and MCP clients are explicit boundaries. RescueTime is cloud-backed by design so it can build its reports.
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