DayReplay Guides
Practical resources for freelancers and developers who want more accurate invoicing, better retrospectives, and lower-friction time tracking — on Windows and macOS.
Featured guideCustomize Category Rules
Refine DayReplay's automatic categorization on Pro by adding domain rules for browser activity and process rules for desktop apps — with a worked Microsoft Outlook example for both Windows and macOS.
Read guide →How to Recover Billable Hours You Forgot to Track
A practical 30-minute workflow for reconstructing lost billable hours from your existing artifacts — and the simple system that stops the problem from recurring.
Read article →Time Tracking for Freelance Writers: A Practical Workflow
How to track time across research, drafting, and revisions when most of your work happens in scattered fragments — and what to do about per-word versus per-hour billing.
Read article →Time Tracking for Designers: A Workflow That Survives Real Project Loops
How to track time when your workflow spans 12 browser tabs of references, four Figma files, and a Slack channel — and how to bill per project from the resulting log.
Read article →Manual vs Automatic Time Tracking: Which One Will You Actually Use?
A direct comparison of timer-based and passive activity tracking — including who each one fits, where each one breaks, and what most freelancers should actually pick.
Read article →Are Time Trackers Spyware? A Buyer's Privacy Checklist
A practical guide to evaluating what time-tracking tools actually collect, where it goes, and which ones cross the line into surveillance — with a checklist you can use before installing.
Read article →How to Bill Clients Without a Timer Running
A practical alternative to timer-based billing: how to track, defend, and invoice client hours using passive activity capture instead of starting and stopping a stopwatch.
Read article →macOSBest Automatic Time Tracking Apps for Mac: a Buyer's Framework
A practical evaluation framework for choosing a macOS automatic tracker that survives real workdays — and respects Apple's privacy boundaries.
Read article →macOSHow to Track Time Spent on Websites on Mac (Without Manual Logs)
A practical method for website-level tracking on macOS that supports billing and weekly planning — using Accessibility, not Screen Recording.
Read article →macOSTime Tracking on macOS Without Screen Recording or Screenshots
Why most macOS time trackers ask for Screen Recording permission, what they get from it, and how to track work without it.
Read article →WindowsBest Automatic Time Tracking Apps for Windows: a Buyer’s Framework
A practical evaluation framework for choosing an automatic tracker that survives real workdays.
Read article →WindowsHow to Track Time Spent on Websites on Windows (Without Manual Logs)
A practical method for website-level tracking that supports billing and weekly planning.
Read article →How to Track Work Hours Without a Timer
A sustainable no-timer system for fragmented workdays and accurate weekly review.
Read article →Long-form guides: How DayReplay works · Customize categories · Security & privacy · FAQ · Windows landing · macOS landing