Track app usage on Mac. Read your app totals.

NotchPop samples the foreground application and accumulates observed time by app. That gives you a lightweight record of what was in front while the tracker was running. It does not reconstruct every session from before installation or read Apple's complete Screen Time history.

A browser's foreground time is not a detailed classification of every site or task inside it. Likewise, time in an editor can include several projects. Use the totals to ask better questions about your day, not to declare exactly how much valuable work you completed or how much a client should be billed.

1. Let NotchPop run during an ordinary work session.
2. Open Screen Time and inspect today's total and listed apps.
3. Select a day in the last-seven-days view to inspect that day's recorded activity.
4. Use Back to today when returning to the current session.

Expect incomplete totals when the app was not running or a period was not observed. Compare similar workdays rather than treating a short partial day and a full day as equal samples. Demo screenshots are illustrative; the actual tracker should show your own observed usage and its corresponding dates.

Choose a small question from the data: did a messaging window occupy more of the afternoon than expected, or did a focused writing block stay in the intended app? Keep notes about the work context before deciding that a high total in one app is automatically wasteful. Some tasks legitimately require the browser all day.

Use a stopwatch when you need a deliberately started and stopped task measurement. Use Pomodoro when the goal is a bounded work routine. These tools answer different timing questions and need not produce matching totals. Keep formal time reports in the system required by your work.