Get the apps.

Records which apps you use while a session is running, and closes blocked ones when Focus Mode is on. No installer, no admin rights.

Not published yet. It’s built and working — ask Kapilesh or Sahas for a copy in the meantime.

1. 1. Put it somewhere you won't delete by accident, not Downloads.
2. 2. Windows will say it's an unrecognised app. Click More info, then Run anyway. That happens once.
3. 3. The pairing window opens by itself. Paste the code from your Devices page.
4. 4. Right-click the Insight circle near the clock and turn on Start with Windows.

Records which apps you use while a session is running, and closes blocked ones when Focus Mode is on. No installer, no admin rights.

Not published yet. It’s built and working — ask Kapilesh or Sahas for a copy in the meantime.

1. 1. Drag it to your Applications folder.
2. 2. Right-click it and choose Open, then Open again. Double-clicking gets refused, that's what an unsigned app looks like, and you only do this once.
3. 3. The pairing window opens by itself. Paste the code from your Devices page.
4. 4. Click the Insight circle in the menu bar and turn on Open at Login.

Records which apps you use while a session is running, and puts a screen in front of blocked ones when Focus Mode is on. The only phone that can do either.

Not published yet. It’s built and working — ask Kapilesh or Sahas for a copy in the meantime.

1. 1. Tap the file. Android will say installing from unknown sources is blocked, tap Settings in that prompt and allow it. Once only.
2. 2. Open Insight and paste the code from your Devices page.
3. 3. It asks for usage access, in Settings. That's the permission that lets it see which app is in front, app names only, and only while a session runs.
4. 4. Then it asks to draw over other apps. That one is what lets Focus Mode actually block something, and you can skip it if you only want the counting.

Counts the sites you use during a session, and blocks the distracting ones when Focus Mode is on. It never sees a password and holds no encryption key.

Waiting on Chrome Web Store review. Until it clears, the Devices page has the manual route.

1. 1. Click Add to Chrome, then Add extension when it asks.
2. 2. Click the Insight icon in the toolbar and paste the code from your Devices page.
3. 3. That's it. It counts sites only while a session is running, and does nothing at any other time.

What they record

• Only while a study session is running. Outside one the timer doesn’t accumulate at all.
• App names, Word, Spotify, Steam. Never window titles, so never which document or which video.
• Ten minutes without touching the keyboard and the clock stops, back to your last keypress. Sleep and screen lock do the same.
• On Windows and Mac, browsers are left to the extension so nothing is counted twice. On Android they’re counted here, because Chrome for Android can’t run the extension, and you can block a browser by name, though only the whole thing. Telling YouTube from Wikipedia inside it would mean reading your screen, which nothing here does.
• On Android, nothing counts while the screen is off, a phone in a pocket names a foreground app, and that isn’t studying.

None of these are signed by a paid developer account, which is why each system warns about them. Signing costs a few hundred dollars a year and Insight is free.