ScreenTime

Captures your screen every minute. Creates movies.

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ScreenTime_0_8.app.zip

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What does it do?

• take a screenshot every minute
• make hourly movies for past hours of the day
• make daily movies for previous days
• each image has a timestamp overlaid
• support several display: display id at the end of filename

What is it good for?

• remembering what you've been doing
• filling your timesheets
• recovering data in case of crash
• snooping

Trips and Tricks

Alt-click on ScreenTime menu will force screenshot.

Alt-click + command on ScreenTime menu will force movie creation.

You can create or edit the following file:

~/Library/Preferences/ch.seriot.ScreenTime.plist

Change the values for the following keys as you wish:

• SecondsBetweenScreenshots
• FramesPerSecond

Release Notes

Version 0.8 - 2026-03-24

• [NEW] Support macOS 14.6 (Sonoma)
• [NEW] Menu item: Take Screenshot Now
• [FIX] Images could appear in the wrong order

Version 0.7 - 2018-03-26

• [FIX] History menu was not properly sorted

Version 0.6 - 2018-03-03

• [NEW] improved movie file names in menu
• [FIX] hourly movies could appear twice in daily movies
• [DEV] rewritten in Swift 4

Version 0.5 - 2016-01-23

• [FIX] fixed a critical bug where the timer would not fire
• [FIX] fixed memory leaks

Version 0.4 - 2016-01-21

• [NEW] added a menu item to open movies directly
• [NEW] added "7 days" period to the history depth slider
• [FIX] the horizontal bar was missing in retina menu item icon
• [DEV] rewritten in pure Swift

Version 0.3 - 2015-12-27

• [NEW] option to remove recordings older than a certain number of days
• [NEW] added retina icons
• [CHANGE] use cmd-alt-click instead of alt-click to force screenshot
• [DEV] removed STHTTPRequest dependency

Version 0.2 - 2015-07-12

• [FIX] "Skip Screensaver" did not work because of a typo in the code (wfalkwallace)
• [NEW] added "Pause ScreenTime" menu item (wfalkwallace, nst)
• [NEW] alt-click on the icon will force screenshot
• [NEW] show version number when opening the menu with alt key pressed
• [CHANGE] renamed "Start at Launch" menu item into "Start at Login"

Version 0.1 - 2015-06-28

• First release

Source code

https://github.com/nst/ScreenTime

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