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Local-first · Windows

Track time without
breaking flow.

Tical sits in your tray and keeps track of where the hours actually went. There is no account to make and nothing leaves your machine — your history is a file on your own disk.

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One-time purchase · Free updates within your major version

Tracking00:00:00
A day in Tical

Your day, already written down

Hit start and get on with it. Entries sort themselves into days, and the ones that belong in Jira or ClickUp end up there too.

TICAL PRO
Personal
Refactor the sync queue
Acme rollout clientmeeting Add tag...
00:41:12
Search entries...
TODAY 01:30:17
Write up client meeting notes Acme rollout meeting 00:45:10
Weekly planning No project 00:26:45
Inbox and expenses Admin admin 00:18:22
YESTERDAY 00:55:30
Quarterly invoices Admin 00:34:00
Reading list catch-up No project 00:21:30

That switcher works — open it and pick a context. Each one brings its own panel, its own project fields and its own entries, and the slots it doesn't use collapse.

What it does

Built for people who forget to start timers

Most of your day gets recorded whether or not you remembered to press start. Tidying up the rest takes about a minute.

Automatic capture

It watches which window you're in and notices when you've walked away. What you get back is a rough draft of your day.

Calendar aware

Meetings arrive as entries already filled in. Keep the ones that actually happened, drop the ones that quietly didn't.

Reports that export

CSV, JSON, or a summary straight to your clipboard. However you bill, the hours come out in one keystroke.

Local-first storage

Everything lives in one SQLite file on your disk. Want it on a second machine? It syncs encrypted through your Drive, never ours.

Global shortcuts

Start, stop and label a session from anywhere in Windows. Most days you barely look at the window at all.

Offline licensing

Your key is signed and checked on your own machine. Nothing phones home, and nothing stops working because a server had a bad day.

Extend

Every integration is a plugin, including ours

The contexts you just switched between aren't special cases baked into the app. Jira, ClickUp and Pomodoro are ordinary class libraries built against Tical.SDK — the same package your plugin would reference. Anything they can do, yours can.

Read the SDK docs → Get the plugins & exporters
Pricing

Buy it once

Start free and stay there for as long as it suits you. Pro is one payment for the whole app — there is no tier above it, and no renewal email waiting for you in eleven months.

Free

The whole tracker, kept small.

$0 forever
  • Time tracking and the calendar view
  • No time limit — no card, no account
  • One workspace
  • Up to 3 projects
  • Local storage
  • Plugins and exporters
Coming soon

Windows · free forever

Pro

One machine, yours forever.

$119 one-time

Everything in Free, plus:

  • Every plugin and exporter, including Jira and ClickUp
  • Unlimited workspaces
  • Unlimited projects
  • Encrypted Drive sync
  • Perpetual license for one machine
  • Free updates in your major version
Buy Tical Pro

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Get Tical for Windows

The app is the same download whether you stay on Free or buy a license — a key unlocks what is already installed, so there is nothing else to fetch afterwards.

Tical is in final testing and the build is not public yet. Nothing to sign up for — check back shortly, and tell us what you want in it on the feedback page.
Coming soon

Windows · available soon

The plugins and exporters we ship are packaged separately from the app, so they can be updated without a new build. Unzip either one next to Tical.exe. Loading them needs a Pro license.

Plugins .zip — soon Exporters .zip — soon
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Your receipt has a redemption link. Open it, paste the hardware code from Tical → Settings → Licensing, and your signed key comes back straight away.

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