Breakdowns
An app total on its own doesn’t say much — eight hours of “Adobe After Effects” could be one project or five. Breakdowns split an app’s time into the specific things you worked on inside it.
What counts as a breakdown depends on the app:
| App | Breakdown |
|---|---|
| After Effects | project_file.aep |
| Cursor | Workspace Title / index.tsx |
| Google Chrome | Individual websites + sub-breakdowns like individual YouTube videos with the browser extension installed |
| Spotify | Artist + Song |
| Terminal | Tab or window title |
Sub-breakdowns go one level further: a site like YouTube splits into the individual videos you watched, and a music app splits each artist into songs.
Apps Vetroscope doesn’t fully recognize are still tracked — you get the app’s total, just without breakdowns. A few apps may also show up without their icon or with an odd name, because apps are packaged in many different ways on macOS and Windows. Support for more apps keeps improving with each update.
In the meantime, you can fix an app’s name and icon yourself. See Customizing apps.
Where you’ll see breakdowns
Section titled “Where you’ll see breakdowns”Everywhere app time appears: click an app on Home to expand it, and you’ll also find them in the Calendar sidebar, in Charts, on the Timeline (each breakdown gets its own row under its app), and in reports and CSV exports. You can tag, set goals for, and ignore individual breakdowns too. See Tags to organize your time by project or habit.