The hours and the work, from one automatic source.
Manual timers rely on you to remember. Activity trackers only watch the keyboard. Atend captures your real hours and what you got done, accurately, and without a timer to start.
| Atend | Manual timers Toggl · Harvest | Activity trackers WakaTime · RescueTime | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runs automatically, nothing to start or stop | ●Yes | ○No | ●Yes |
| Captures what you got done, not just the hours | ●Yes | ○No | ○No |
| Counts your attending time automatically, nothing to log | ●Yes | ○No | ○No |
| Treats silence-while-working as work, not idle | ●Yes | ·n/a | ○No |
| Leaves out time you were genuinely away | ●Yes | ○No | ◐Some |
| Invoices that list the work, not just the hours | ●Yes | ○No | ○No |
| Metadata only, no keystrokes or screenshots | ●Yes | ·n/a | ◐Some |
Two answers, one source
Every other tracker gives you a number and stops there. Atend reads the same signals and gives you two answers at once: how long you worked, and what you got done, a short, approved recap in plain bullet points. A timesheet says you spent four hours; the recap says you rebuilt the checkout flow. That pairing is the thing a stopwatch was never going to give you.
A proven approach, not a bet
Capturing billable time automatically, with nothing to log, isn't a new experiment: it's an established approach the major automatic trackers have offered for years, now backed by serious investment and used by firms whose whole business is billing time accurately. That same automatic capture now reaches independent and small-team work, and goes one step further, to the hour all of those tools still miss. Atend automatically counts the time you spend attending an AI agent, no keystrokes, nothing to log.
The attending-time example
You send a prompt and your agent works for 38 minutes while you read, think, and steer. No keystrokes hit the editor. A heartbeat-based tracker reads that as zero. Atend sees the agent running and you present, so it counts the time as Attending work, which is what keeps the hours accurate.
Why not just a longer idle timeout?
Some trackers let you stretch the idle cut-off to a few more minutes. That's still an arbitrary timer: set it short and it drops a long agent run; set it long and it counts real breaks. Atend doesn't guess with a timeout. It binds the clock to the running process: as long as the agent is alive and you're present, the time counts; when you step away, it stops. That's why the hours hold up, instead of depending on where you set a slider.
Atend vs. Rize
Rize also notices AI tools, but it's built to measure your focus and AI adoption, and it still cuts at a few minutes of inactivity, so a long, attended agent run falls through. Atend is built for a different job: counting the attended runtime as billable time, bound to the process rather than a timeout, and pairing it with a recap of what got done. And it's privacy-first by design: metadata only for the core tracking, so the hours are trustworthy for a team, not a productivity score watched by a manager.
Atend vs. AI-native invoicing tools
Newer tools built for the AI era (Keito is the clearest example) let your AI agents log their own runtime and cost through an API, then put that on the invoice. That's real, and it's a different job from ours: they still need you to log the hours you spent. Atend automatically counts the time you spend attending an AI agent, no keystrokes, nothing to log. It pairs that with a recap of what got done, and it never turns an agent's self-reported cost into a line item. We capture the human attending time every other tracker misses. Capture is automatic; nothing becomes an invoice until you build and issue it, and you can change any entry first.
Switching from Harvest?
Atend counts something no other Harvest alternative does: the time you spend attending an AI agent, so the hours you spend directing and reviewing AI are billable work, not lost time. You don't have to choose between automatic capture and real invoicing anymore. Atend does both: it reconstructs your day on its own and exports client-ready, rounded billable time, now with the work itself listed alongside the hours, and no stopwatch discipline required. And where Harvest's plans now charge for the invoices, projects, clients and tasks you use, Atend is one price per person with no usage fees, and we won't add them. There's a page just for the switch: Atend as a Harvest alternative.
Measures work, not people
Accurate time tracking doesn't need surveillance. Atend stores metadata only: what app, whether an agent ran, idle or active. It never stores the content of your work, so the hours it reports are trustworthy, on your own or across a team.
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