Activity categories
Activity categories label apps (and browser sites) by type of work — Coding & Development, Creative, Productivity, Communication, Entertainment, Music, Gaming, Browsing, System, and Other. They are not tags, and setting them never changes your tracked time. Charts, Timeline, Calendar summaries, and integrations can then show time by category as well as by app.
Turning them on
Section titled “Turning them on”Settings → Activity Tracking → Activity categories. With the switch on:
- Popular apps get a category from Vetroscope’s built-in list. That works offline.
- Apps that aren’t on that list can be categorized with AI when that capability is available on your account. You can also tap Categorize unknown apps to run a pass now.
- Expand Categories in the same section to see which of your tracked apps sit in each category.
Turn the switch off to stop automatically categorizing new unknown apps. Categories you already have stay in place, Charts and Timeline still use them, and you can still change categories by hand.
Manual overrides
Section titled “Manual overrides”Use Manually assigned categories to set an app’s category yourself, or pick one in the app’s Customize window. Your choice always wins over anything Vetroscope assigned automatically, and it syncs when Cloud Sync or Home Sync is on.
Where categories show up
Section titled “Where categories show up”- Charts — switch from Apps to Category.
- Timeline — the Activity row at the top colors the day by category.
- Calendar day summaries may mention categories.
- Chat, the Local API, and the MCP can report category totals.
Privacy
Section titled “Privacy”Categorizing unknown apps sends their names (and, for browsers, site names) through Vetroscope to an AI service. The answers may be added to an anonymous shared list of app categories that isn’t linked to your account, so the next person with the same app gets its category without asking the AI again. Full detail: FAQ → Privacy.