Customizing apps

Vetroscope picks up each app’s real name and icon. When you’d rather see something else — for example, FL Studio instead of an odd file name like FL64.exe — you can change the name and icon yourself.

Customize an app

Right-click any app and choose Customize, or manage everything from Settings → Customized Apps. You can change:

Name — how the app is labeled everywhere in Vetroscope.
Icon — upload your own. PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, ICO, SVG, and macOS .icns files all work. Vetroscope uses the sharpest size inside the file.
Color — the accent used for the app’s progress bars and charts.
Category — the app’s activity category.
Ignore all breakdowns — keep tracking the app’s time without recording its projects, sites, or files. Past breakdowns collapse into the app until you turn it off again.

Changes apply everywhere at once — Home, Charts, Timeline, Calendar, reports, and the web dashboard — including time you tracked before the change. They only change how the app looks, not what was recorded: Vetroscope still keeps the app’s original name, and shows it alongside your custom one, so a renamed app can’t pass itself off as a different app.

Undoing a customization

Settings → Customized Apps lists every app you’ve changed. Remove an app from the list to return it to its real name, icon, and color.