Insight - Track and Optimize Your Time Online

Know how you spend your time online. Insight by Freedom tracks the time you spend on websites, so you can improve your habits.
What is Insight - Track and Optimize Your Time Online?
Insight - Track and Optimize Your Time Online is a Chrome extension developed by Freedom Labs. It diligently tracks the amount of time you spend on each website, offering you clear reports. By knowing where your time is spent daily or on a weekly basis, you can then make informed decisions to optimize your online habits. It offers customization and respects data privacy, keeping your information secure on your device only. Regular updates cater to user feedback and conform to Google's Manifest V3. Learn more about this mindful tool today.

Extension stats

Users: 9,000+
Rating: 4.49 (41)
Version: 1.0.0 (Last updated: 2023-10-03)
Creation date: 2020-07-02
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • idle
  • alarms
Size: 1.10M

Other platforms

Insight - Track Your Time Online (v0.2.8)
4.58 (24) 946
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Extension summary

We built Insight to be a lightweight, privacy-conscious time tracker that helps you understand how you spend your time online.

Insight tracks the time you spend on websites in Chrome, and provides a simple report so you can see where you're spending your time. You can drill down into individual sites and see your daily time on each site.

  • See time spent by day, week, or set a custom time window for any calendar period
  • Drill down on each site to see time spent each day of time period
  • Exclude any site from being tracked

We've built Insight to be privacy-conscious. None of your data is sent anywhere (the cloud, our servers, etc.) It remains secure on your own device.

If you want to become more productive, you have to first understand how you're currently spending your time, and Insight helps you do just that. With this insight, you can be more mindful about how you spend your time. Thank you for giving Insight a try.

Insight is a product of Freedom Labs, where we develop new tools to help you balance your relationship with technology. Like our other extensions, Insight is highly privacy-conscious. Learn more about Freedom here: https://freedom.to

Please note: Insight 1.0.0 is our initial release with Manifest 3 compatibility. You may experience slight differences in behavior due to the significant changes required to comply with Manifest V3. Please send us your feedback at [email protected] and we'll continue to improve Insight. Thank you!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Helps users track and optimize their time online effectively.
  • Simplicity and ease of use are highly praised.
  • Provides insights into online habits and where time is wasted.
  • Useful for setting up mindful internet usage and blocking distracting websites.
  • Feedback suggests a strong engagement with the product, with users willing to provide insights for improvement.
Cons
  • Does not track time across different browsers (e.g., Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge).
  • Features limited to working with the Freedom app, requiring manual session starts.
  • Timer bugs that are distracting and need fixing.
  • Limited export options for data analysis.
  • Does not track desktop applications or activities on secondary monitors.
Most mentioned
  • Time tracking issues and bugs.
  • Desire for more integrations with desktop apps and other browsers.
  • Need for enhanced functionality, such as data export and advanced analytics.
  • Expressed appreciation for the tool's impact on awareness of time management.
Recent reviews
Few feature enhancements: 1. On face of it I don't think it's 'merging' activitiy: (A) My mobile activity and desktop activity as I am sure I am using some apps more on mobile. (B) Also it's clearly not merging Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome activity. This is despite being generally logged in with Google account. When I launch insights from each browser I get different metrics. Like many I tend to alternate between browsers. Some kind of 'synch' functionality would be enormously useful. 2. It would be good to show how much time the Freedom app is enabled - the idea here is you should be targetting to have the app enabled as much as possible so weekly comparisons will tell you if you ended up just switching it off and forgetting to re-enable. 3. The big issue I have with Freedom is that it requires lots of workarounds / fiddling in a corporate environment because desktop app can't be installed for security reasons. Hence there should be a lot more emphasis on the web based extensions working really seamlessly as the majority of corporate users will be using that. I am still using Freedom actively as I really think the tool is much better than not having at all - hope the product keeps getting enhanced.
by Raheel H, 2024-09-01

Really Great Extension I use it on daily basis. It would be cool if developers can add new features like time limit for websites etc.
by Shripad Khandare, 2024-06-10

Great extension I use on a daily basis to optimise how I spend my time. Is there a way to export my data so I can analyse it better?
by Ryan Camus, 2024-01-30
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Insight - Track and Optimize Your Time Online requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Insight - Track and Optimize Your Time Online has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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