Your first run

Sign in or create an account

Vetroscope requires an account. On first launch, register with an email and password or choose Continue with Google. New accounts start a 14-day trial with full access to all Vetroscope features. See Plans and trial for what happens after trial expires.

The tray window

Vetroscope lives in your menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows). Click the tray icon to open the app, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+B anywhere. Click the pin in the header to keep the window open while you work in other apps.

On macOS you can also show today’s tracked time right next to the tray icon: Settings → Activity Tracking → Show time in menu bar. This is enabled by default.

Finding your way around

The bottom of the tray window has five tabs:

• Home — The main dashboard where today’s total, your apps, breakdowns, tags, and what’s playing are shown.
• Charts — Bar charts of your time by app, tag, or category for a day, week, month, or year.
• Chat — Ask questions about your tracked time in plain language and get answers from your own data.
• Activity — A list of everything you did in the last 24 hours, newest first.
• Settings — Everything you can change about how Vetroscope works.

The buttons along the top of the window stay in place on every tab. They open Quick Search, Calendar, Timeline, and Reports in their own windows, and Tags, Events, Notes, and Alerts as panels inside the tray window.

With Vetroscope Pro, you can also see everything from a browser or your phone on the web dashboard.

The welcome tour

The first launch walks you through the basics. Tracking starts on its own the moment the app is running — there are no timers to start and nothing to remember. Open Vetroscope after an hour of normal work and you’ll see your day filling in.

Next steps

• Learn how tracking works — what’s recorded, when tracking pauses, and background time.
• Set up tags to group your time by project or client.
• Install the browser extension for per-site tracking.