Timing

What is Timing?

Timing is a native macOS productivity app for automatic time tracking. It helps freelancers, consultants, agencies, and other Mac users understand how their workday is spent by recording time across apps, documents, and websites without requiring constant manual timers. Users can review activity in a visual timeline, assign tracked work to projects, and turn that history into time entries and reports. The app also supports rules that categorize activities automatically, helping reduce manual cleanup when preparing billing records or internal timesheets. Additional workflows include syncing data across Macs, viewing data on the web, and using team features for shared projects and reporting. Timing is published by Timing Software GmbH and is designed for people who want a clearer picture of where their working time goes on Mac.

Key features

• Automatically track time spent in apps, documents, and websites
• Review work history in a visual timeline by day, hour, and activity
• Assign tracked activity to projects and create time entries faster
• Use rules to categorize recurring work automatically
• Exclude idle time and review gaps after time away from the Mac
• Export tracked time for reports, timesheets, and invoicing
• Sync time-tracking data across multiple Macs
• Use web and team features for shared projects and remote access to tracked time

Safety overview

Status: Mostly safe

Timing is legitimate time-tracking software for macOS. Its behavior is consistent with its purpose: it monitors which apps, documents, and websites you use so it can build an activity history, and some features may integrate with calendar, browser, or sync services if you enable them. Because the app records detailed work patterns, review its privacy settings and exclusions if you handle sensitive client, personal, or internal material. Local-only use is more privacy-preserving, while sync and web features share more data with the service.

Recommendation: Keep Timing if you use it for timesheets, billing, or productivity review on your Mac. If you no longer rely on automatic time tracking, you can remove it, but expect to lose access to its recorded history unless you export or back up your data first. Before uninstalling, check whether you use sync, team reporting, or exported billing workflows that depend on the app.

Common paths

• /Applications/Timing.app

Cache paths

• ~/Library/Caches/info.eurocomp.Timing2

Support paths

• ~/Library/Application Support/Timing

Preference paths

• ~/Library/Preferences/info.eurocomp.Timing2.plist

Related can I delete pages

• ~/Library/Application Support/Timing
• ~/Library/Caches/info.eurocomp.Timing2
• ~/Library/Preferences/info.eurocomp.Timing2.plist

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