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Chronoid Mac time tracker, $3.3K in 30 days: Mac-focused

Chronoid is a Mac app for tracking time, creating invoices, reviewing productivity, and running focus sessions. Its $3.3K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Lemon Squeezy, Creem), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Chronoid is a Mac app for automatic time tracking, invoicing, productivity analytics, focus tools, and privacy-first AI insights. The site describes it as "Tracking, invoicing, analytics, and focus tools in a single Mac app." It is built for freelancers who bill by the hour, including freelancers, consultants, creatives, agencies, and remote workers.

The app automatically tracks apps, websites, and documents and assigns activities to client projects. It generates client invoices and exports PDF reports from tracked hours. It also provides locally answered AI questions about time data, including through a local MCP server.

How it charges

Subscription plans cost $15 monthly or $96 yearly, with a $149 lifetime option. Student and bulk discounts are available. The site shows pricing for Monthly $15 per month, Annual $96 per year, and Lifetime $149 pay once.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

MonthRevenue (USD)
2025-10$1,201
2025-11$3,203
2025-12$1,584
2026-01$80
2026-02$2,869
2026-03$2,298
2026-04$5,141
2026-05$3,964
2026-06$2,545
2026-07$1,924
2026-08$2,658
2026-09$3,153

Where customers come from

The site offers a Mac app download and the Homebrew installation command "brew install --cask chronoid." The founder listed Newsletter, SEO, and Word of mouth as growth channels. The site also lists task integrations with ClickUp, monday.com, and Linear, plus hotkeys, Siri, and Shortcuts integration.

What stands out

Chronoid combines automatic time tracking, client invoicing, productivity analytics, focus tools, and privacy-first AI insights in one Mac app. It can block distracting websites and includes scheduled focus sessions and a Pomodoro timer. It also provides a local MCP server for questions from Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor.

The site claims more than 500 Mac users and says no account is needed. A testimonial says Chronoid has been used for 4+ months and that the developer has been very responsive to feedback.

From the official site

Built for freelancers who bill by the hour
Chronoid captures every app, website, and document you work on, automatically assigned to client projects.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Chronoid's $3.3K in the last 30 days is higher than 87% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Dev Tools” category (717 projects) it is higher than 89% (category median $100). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

In my view, this needs real work. The buyer is a freelancer, consultant, creative, agency, or remote worker who bills by the hour and wants a Mac workflow for tracking work and preparing invoices. Distribution would need to come from the founder-listed channels of Newsletter, SEO, and Word of mouth, alongside the visible app download and developer workflow surfaces.

The hard parts are accurate activity tracking, project assignment, invoice generation, local AI features, integrations, and Mac reliability. A new product would also face competition and a support load from users who depend on their time data and client billing.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

Chronoid combines automatic time tracking, invoicing, analytics, focus tools, and local AI questions in a single Mac app for people who bill by the hour. Its listed pricing includes $15 monthly, $96 yearly, and a $149 lifetime option.

Sources

  1. Chronoid official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. Chronoid pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
  3. TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Lemon Squeezy, Creem), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure

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