Foreground is an activity tracking programme for your Windows personal computer.
Track time spent in applications and websites automatically to better understand your productivity.
Foreground is focused on privacy. Your tracking data is stored in a local database on your computer and never sent, synced, transmitted, or shared with anyone else. Nobody but you can see it, and no third-parties can analyse it or profit from it.
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Now here are some other features of Foreground.
Scores and categories
Rank apps and sites from “core productivity” (most productive) through to “focused entertainment” (most distracting), and categorise the type of activity.
Daily and long-term reports
See today's time grouped by productivity rating across each hour. Get insight into your activity over the longer term with tables and graphs covering productivity, category, and top apps and sites.
Comprehensive browser add-ons
Track your active tab in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium-based browsers.
Exist integration
Send your daily total productive time, distracting time, neutral time, and time spent gaming to Exist.
Modern design, low overhead
Foreground builds on Tauri, an Electron alternative with much smaller CPU and memory overhead. Foreground uses about 1-2% CPU and 40MB RAM while in the background.
It's your data
Everything is stored in a local SQLite database file. Back it up, copy it, access records directly with database tools.
Foreground is developed by Hello Code, the makers of Exist, an app for tracking and understanding everything about your life. We have a decade of experience in tracking personal data, and created Foreground out of a desire for a privacy-respecting option for Windows personal computers.
Download
Foreground is free to try, and isn't feature-limited. Trial it as much as you like for 30 days, and if you like it, you can buy a licence key and keep right on using it.
Download installer
Foreground x86_64 1.0.1 for Windows 10/11 View release history
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