★ ★ ★ MADE FOR THE MAC ★ ★ ★
Punchcard sits in your menu bar and quietly notices where your day went, app by app, and site by site in your browser if you like. At closing time it prints you a receipt for it: itemized, stamped, and ready to post. No projects. No timers to remember. No account.
macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel · 4.2 MB · notarized by Apple
Free to try. Two receipts on the house, then $9 once.
The whole operation
There is no setup wizard, no project picker, and no timer to forget to start. That is the entire product philosophy.
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Drag it to Applications. It takes up one small slot in your menu bar and asks for no permissions to get going: not Accessibility, not Screen Recording, not Full Disk Access. Want websites itemized too? That is one optional switch, and macOS asks you first.
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It notes which app is in front (and which website, when that app is your browser and you have switched sites on), notices when you step away so lunch doesn't count as two hours of Figma, and otherwise stays completely out of your way.
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At the hour you picked, the slot whirrs and the paper feeds out line by line. The stamp lands last. Tear it off, and the day is closed.
The fine print, unfine-printed
Most apps ask you to trust a privacy policy. Punchcard ships with two build gates that fail the release if networking turns up anywhere outside the one file that activates your license, or if the compiled app references any analytics or telemetry. Your tracked day has no way off the Mac.
What's on the roll
A receipt nobody wants to look at twice is just a report. So the paper, the sound, the tear and the stamp all got more attention than the tracking did.
Paper feeds out of the slot line by line over two and a half seconds, with a soft dot-matrix whirr behind it. The stamp lands last, at a slightly different angle every single day.
Drag the receipt down and it rips the way paper actually rips: spring resistance, then a clean tear and a tumble. Try it on the one at the top of this page.
Every receipt exports as a 1080×1350 PNG, the exact shape X, Instagram and TikTok want, with no cropping. A plain-text version lands on your clipboard for alt text.
Point your phone camera at the bottom of any receipt. It is real Code 128 and it encodes that day's date. The one printing above scans too. Go on.
Sunday prints a long roll for the week. The end of a month prints a longer one. Miss a day because your Mac slept? It prints late, headed SORRY WE MISSED YOU.
Add any app or website to the never-print list and it vanishes from the roll entirely. Punchcard also excludes itself, because watching yourself watch yourself is a bit much.
Paper rolls
The register
Punchcard tracks free forever and prints your first two receipts on the house, so you get the whole magic moment before anyone asks you for money. After that, nine dollars keeps the roll running for good.
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Your license key arrives by email the moment the payment clears.
Ask the cashier
No. It is nine dollars, one time, and that covers every update from here on. The entire brand promise is anti-subscription; charging rent for a little paper receipt would be a very strange thing to do.
Only for your license. The free version makes no network calls at all. Entering a license key activates it with the payment provider (the key and this Mac's name go out, a yes or no comes back), and a licensed copy checks again at launch to catch a refund; being offline never locks you out. Nothing about your day is ever sent: the release build fails if networking appears anywhere outside that one licensing file, or if the app references any analytics or telemetry. Tracking and printing work with no connection at all.
Buying happens here on the website; the app never handles payment.
The name of the app that is currently in front, sampled every few seconds, plus whether you have been idle. That's it, out of the box. It does not read window titles, document names, or anything you type, and it needs no macOS permissions to work. If you switch on itemized browsing, it also notes the website name of your browser's front tab (github.com, never the full address), after macOS asks for your permission. Incognito windows are never read.
Yes, if you want it to. Switch on itemized browsing in Settings and your browser time prints as the sites you actually used: GitHub, YouTube, Google Docs, each as its own line. It works in Chrome, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi. macOS asks once per browser, we keep only the site name, incognito windows are never read, and it all stays on your Mac.
Download the installer and open it. It is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any warnings, right-clicking, or Terminal commands.
Punchcard lands in /Applications and appears in your menu bar. It uses about 4 MB on disk.
Yes. It ships as a universal binary with both Apple silicon and Intel slices, and needs macOS 13 Ventura or later.
In one SQLite file at ~/Library/Application Support/Punchcard/punchcard.sqlite. Delete the file and every day it held is gone. Nothing is kept anywhere else, because there is nowhere else.
Within 30 days, yes, for any reason or none. Email us and it's done; there's no form and no exit survey. See the refund policy for the details.
