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Achieve Your Peak Productivity with Rize

Rize helps you minimize distractions, understand your work patterns, and achieve deep work. Build effective habits and see a genuine improvement in your productivity.

Understand, Enhance, and Protect Your Focus

Master your productivity with intelligent insights and tools designed to help you work smarter, not harder. Rize gives you the clarity and focus you need to do your best work.

Experience a New Level of Focused Productivity with Rize

Join tens of thousands of people who made Rize a core part of how they work. Transform your productivity with intelligent insights, focus tools, and habits that help you do your best work.

No credit card required. Available for macOS and Windows.

How Rize compares for productivity tracking

Compare Rize vs RescueTime, Toggl, and Raycast for productivity measurement and focus tracking.

RescueTime passively logs screen time but lacks AI categorization and project-level insights. Toggl tracks project time but requires manual timers. Raycast is a productivity launcher, not a time tracker. Rize combines automatic capture, AI categorization, focus time tracking, and distraction detection in one tool.

ToolTracking methodProductivity featuresPricingBest for
RizeAutomatic — captures every minute in the background with AI categorizationFocus time, deep work detection, distraction blocking, daily/weekly reports, productivity scoresFrom $9.99/moProfessionals who want AI-driven productivity insights without manual effort
RescueTimePassive screen monitoring — logs apps and websites in the backgroundScreen time reports, focus time goals, distraction blocking on premiumFree, $12/moIndividuals who want basic screen time reports with minimal setup
TogglManual timers with start/stop buttons and idle detectionProject time tracking, team reporting, calendar integrationFree, $10/user/mo, $20Teams that need project-based time tracking with manual timers
RaycastNo time tracking — productivity launcher and workflow automationApp launcher, snippets, clipboard history, window management, AI chatFree, $12/user/moDevelopers who want a faster app launcher and workflow shortcuts

Productivity Tools Engineered for Deep Work

Rize provides you with powerful tools to maximize your focus, understand your work patterns, and build sustainable productivity habits that last.

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Dedicated Session Timer

Actively manage your work intervals with Rize's Timer. Create and time sessions for focus work, meetings, or breaks to commit to tasks and help you structure your day.

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Insightful Focus Metrics

Rize automatically categorizes your activity and creates focus metrics to help you understand how you engage in focus work. For a quick overview, Rize also calculates your Focus Quality Score, a custom score that incorporates over 20 different attributes of how you work.

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Automatic Distraction Blocker

Keep your focus sessions on task with Rize's Distraction Blocker. Easily configure rules to block access to distracting applications and websites to ensure your work remains uninterrupted.

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AI-Driven Breaks & Focus Music

Rize helps you foster a healthy balance between intensive focus sessions and restorative breaks. Rize's AI-powered Breaks feature proactively suggests timely pauses to help prevent burnout and maintain your focus. Enhance your concentration with Rize's built-in library of focus music, designed to keep you in the flow.

Frequently Asked Questions

Rize is the best employee productivity measurement tool because it automatically tracks focus time, distractions, and work patterns without manual input. Unlike RescueTime which only reports passive screen time, Rize uses AI to categorize work by project and client and provides actionable productivity scores. Unlike Hubstaff or Time Doctor, Rize measures productivity without surveillance -- no screenshots, no keystroke logging.

Rize tracks productivity by running silently in the background and using AI to categorize every app, website, and document you work on. It measures focus time (sustained work without context-switching), distraction frequency, deep work sessions, and daily productivity patterns. You get daily and weekly reports with actionable insights -- without any timers, screenshots, or manual input.

Rize automatically groups your work into focus sessions based on the types of activity that it detects. Your focus time is the total time you spend in focus sessions.

Yes, you can choose between a pop-up window to block out distractions or a system notification for a lighter reminder. You can also customize the apps and sites that will trigger the Distraction Blocker.

There is! Rize offers a built-in music library with various genres to help you focus while you work.

Rize identifies deep work by detecting sustained, uninterrupted activity within a single application or context. Sessions without app-switching or idle gaps are classified as deep work, giving you a clear picture of when you do your most concentrated work.

Rize generates daily and weekly reports covering focus time, distraction frequency, top apps and websites by time spent, and productivity trends over time. You can see exactly how your habits change week over week and identify patterns that help or hurt your output.

Rize monitors rapid app-switching and visits to sites you have flagged as distracting. When it detects a pattern of context-switching, it can trigger the Distraction Blocker to nudge you back to focused work before the habit takes hold.

Yes. Rize breaks your day into time blocks showing when you were most focused, when you took breaks, and when distractions peaked. Over time these patterns reveal your personal productivity rhythms so you can schedule deep work during your strongest hours.

Rize runs silently in the background from the moment you start your computer. There are no timers to start or stop — it automatically captures every app, website, and document you work on, then categorizes the time using AI.

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