ZTally v0.1.0

Where did the day go? ZTally is a free, private screen-time tracker for Windows and Linux. It sits in the tray, notices which app and website you're actually looking at, sorts it into categories, and shows your day as a clock you can read at a glance.

No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no update checks. Nothing leaves your computer.

This is the first public release. 🎉

Highlights

• The Dial: today as a 24-hour ring, painted minute by minute in category colours, with away time hatched and focus streaks marked. Hover any minute to see what was in front of you.
• Passive tracking: no timers to start. Idle time is detected automatically, but a video, call or game making sound in front of you doesn't count as away.
• Automatic categories: hundreds of built-in rules for apps and sites. Right-click or drag anything to refile it, and history repaints instantly.
• Background audio & calls: Spotify behind your editor, a YouTube tab in another window, a Discord call during a game. It's all recorded separately, with what you did meanwhile, and never added to screen time. ZTally only notices that the microphone is in use; it never records audio.
• Focus sessions: 25, 50 or 90 minutes, with a gentle nudge when you drift and a report at the end.
• Goals: daily or weekly budgets ("at most 45m of Social") and targets ("at least 4h of Deep Work").
• Every scale: a weekly ribbon, a month calendar and a year heatmap.
• Receipts: a day, week, month or hand-picked days, itemised like a till slip. Save as PNG, print, or export CSV and JSON.
• Browser extension (optional): ZTally Bridge gives exact sites and which tabs play sound. There's a guided setup for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox.
• Make it yours: 5 styles (Chronograph, Nocturne, Verdant, Rosé, Graphite), each dark and light; sharp or round corners, 3 fonts, interface size, reduced motion.
• 6 languages: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Português (Brasil), 日本語.
• Small & light: a ~4 MB installer. Closing the window frees the UI; only the tray and tracker keep running.
• Your data, your call: turn window titles off, ignore apps, forget the last hour, a day, chosen days or everything.

Downloads

System	File
Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)	ZTally_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS	ZTally_0.1.0_amd64.deb
Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL-likes	ZTally-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Any Linux	ZTally_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage
Browser extension (optional)	ZTally-Bridge_0.1.0.zip
Checksums	SHA256SUMS

Or grab it from the website: zsync.eu/ztally

Install

Windows: run the installer. It installs for your user only (no admin rights) and sets up WebView2 if it's missing.

Linux:

sudo apt install ./ZTally_0.1.0_amd64.deb        # Debian / Ubuntu
sudo dnf install ./ZTally-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm     # Fedora
chmod +x ZTally_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage && ./ZTally_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage

Browser extension: open ZTally → Settings → Browser → Set up extension. It walks you through it for your browser.

Good to know

• Windows SmartScreen may say "unknown publisher" because the installer isn't code-signed yet. Choose More info → Run anyway, or check the file against SHA256SUMS first.
• Linux requirements: x86_64 with glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 and later).
• Linux desktops: fully supported on X11 (any desktop) and KDE Plasma (X11 and Wayland). GNOME on Wayland (via a small bundled Shell extension), Sway and Hyprland are experimental. Feedback is very welcome.
• Background audio & call detection on Linux needs pactl (package pulseaudio-utils; also needed with PipeWire). Without it, ZTally falls back to media players only.
• Firefox removes temporary add-ons on restart, so you'd load the extension again after each restart.
• Your data lives in ~/.local/share/ztally/ (Linux) or %LOCALAPPDATA%\ztally\ (Windows).

Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue. Please mention your OS and desktop (e.g. "Fedora 42, GNOME Wayland").

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Made by TheHolyOneZ · ZTally website · more projects at zsync.eu · game mods at zlogic.eu
Free software under the GNU GPL v3.0.