barrettotte / screentime

A MacOS status bar item to show today's screen time for roughly tracking work hours.

screentime

A MacOS status bar item to show today's screen time for roughly tracking work hours.

This is pretty much just an alternative display to System Preferencs/Screen Time. Uses macOS "Knowledge" SQLite database to find total app usage and displays in status bar with format of ##h ##m. Also, built without using xcode editor and only uses Swift Package Manager (SPM).

Tested on MacBook Pro M1 with macOS 12.6

Commands

# build
swift build

# run
swift run

Run on Startup

# screentime.applescript
do shell script "swift run --package-path $PATH_TO_REPO"

# compile AppleScript command to macOS app
osacompile -o ScreenTime.app screentime.applescript

Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items, then press + and add ScreenTime.app.

References

• https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/building-a-command-line-tool-using-the-swift-package-manager/
• https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/8/5/knowledge-is-power-using-the-knowledgecdb-database-on-macos-and-ios-to-determine-precise-user-and-application-usage
• https://github.com/stephencelis/SQLite.swift