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DigitalLife

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Your Mac's activity & screen time

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Your Mac's activity & screen time

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Digital Life is a privacy-first activity monitor for macOS that runs 100% on your Mac — no cloud, no account, no login. Most time-trackers push your data to their servers behind a subscription; this does the opposite: everything stays in a local, optionally encrypted database and never phones home. It's all-in-one — app usage time, file activity, per-app energy draw, disk-space analysis and cleanup, in one native menu-bar app. 8 languages, free for personal use.

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Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Privacy

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I built DigitalLife because I wanted to understand how I actually spend time on my Mac — which apps, how much screen time, where my battery goes — without handing that very personal data to a cloud service or signing up for yet another account. So DigitalLife does everything 100% on your Mac: • App usage & screen time, with daily / weekly / monthly reports • Battery & power trends, per-app energy use • Network traffic per app • File activity — created / modified / deleted • CPU & memory top lists, window titles, idle time • Disk space scan + junk cleanup, with JSON / CSV export The privacy part is the whole point: no cloud, no account, nothing uploaded. The only time it ever touches the network is when you manually click "Check for Updates" — and even then it only fetches a version number. You can also encrypt the local database (the key stays in your macOS Keychain). It's a native SwiftUI menu-bar app (数字人生), notarized by Apple, runs on Apple Silicon / macOS 13+, and ships in 8 languages. Free for personal & non-commercial use. Install with Homebrew: brew install --cask link-x/tap/digitallife (or grab the notarized DMG from GitHub Releases) I'd love your feedback — especially what else you'd want to see about your own Mac usage. Happy to answer anything! 🙏

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3d ago

Local-only tracking sounds great, but I was surprised how much disk hogging the menu bar app flushed out for me on day one. Clean, snappy UI, no signup nonsense, and it actually feels good knowing nothing leaves my Mac.

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9h ago

the local-only approach with the optional encrypted database is honestly the kind of privacy stance i wish more apps took, and folding disk cleanup into the same menu bar app without bloating it is a really nice touch

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10h ago

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3d ago

⭐ Track your Mac's activity — 100% local, no cloud, no account.

DigitalLife is a native macOS menu-bar app that quietly records what happens on your Mac day to day and keeps every byte of it on your own machine.

It tracks which apps you use and for how long, battery and power consumption (with a per-app energy ranking), network traffic per app, file activity (created, deleted and modified files, grouped by directory, type and originating app), CPU and memory top lists, window titles and idle time, background-resident apps, and your full app install/uninstall history. It also scans disk space to locate large folders and files, and helps you clean up junk.

Everything is presented through a polished native interface as clear daily, weekly and monthly reports, with screen-time comparisons against previous periods. You can clear data by day or category, and export it to JSON or CSV.

No cloud. No account. Nothing uploaded all your data stays on your Mac.

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