As we wrap up the year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where RescueTime has been and where we’re heading next.
At its core, RescueTime has always been about helping people understand how they spend their time, then using that understanding to help improve their work and ultimately their lives by empowering them with structure, controls and automated assistance. Over the years, we’ve learned that our users don’t all want the same thing. Some are here for deep analytics and reporting. Some are here for fighting distractions and building new habits. Many want both, but not always all at once, and it turns out to be more or less an even split.
This year, a lot of our work has been about honoring those differences while making the product’s capabilities work and act more harmoniously together, intuitively and efficiently . We introduced new plan tiers so people can choose the experience that fits these feature sets best, without paying for product they don’t want or need. That flexibility is important new product branching, and it’s a foundation we’ll continue to build on that will allow product-specific attention in clear customer domains.
We have made steady progress on unifying our app so focus, analytics, goals, and timesheets work together more coherently. The goal for Focus (called “Solo” or “Team”) is simple, even if the execution isn’t: a tool that helps you focus right now, understand what already happened, and make better decisions about the time ahead.
A special callout this year goes to iOS. We’ve put significant work into improving the mobile experience, and that momentum will continue. In 2026, you’ll see more iOS improvements and new capabilities that make RescueTime even more useful when your workday isn’t spent entirely at a desk. Our Timesheets product now is the core of “Solo+” and “Team+”. While this product matured in the previous year, this year has been spent enhancing and tuning its feature set, with significant customer feedback, and really focusing on it’s team aspects and views of projects of time. In the backend, Timesheets depends entirely on the intelligence we have of the work day to produce is project autocompletions, and the smartness of this engine will be an area of concentrated development in Q1 2026.
While we advanced these two product lines, we are also working toward a fully refreshed interface that’s faster, clearer, and more in line with how the product has evolved, and clarifies the boundries and bridges between the products. Everything you rely on today will still be there, but presented in a more modern, informative way that makes it easier to see your time at a glance.
We’re still a small team, and that means progress can be incremental and sometimes imperfect. But it also means we’re close to the product and close to the people who use it. Your feedback continues to shape where we invest our time and energy, and we’re grateful for it.
Thank you for sticking with us, for sharing RescueTime with others, and for trusting us with insight into something as personal as your time. We’re excited about what’s ahead and looking forward to building the next chapter together.