DaySpire watches the work you already do and turns it into reviewed timesheets, meeting minutes, and a searchable memory of your workday — with AI that runs on your Mac, so work content stays off DaySpire servers.
No credit card · No account · What DaySpire captures
Apple Silicon · macOS 14 Sonoma or newer · 38 MB app + ~12 GB of on-device AI models
The Review surface as it works on your Mac: captured time grouped into suggested blocks with confidence and evidence, one click from your ledger.
Illustrative recreation of the Review surface. Names and projects are examples.
DaySpire stays out of the way while you work, then hands you the finished result for review.
DaySpire quietly notes which apps, windows, and meetings fill your day. No timers to start, no forms to fill. Pause any time from the menu bar.
On-device AI drafts your day into project time blocks with confidence and evidence. You approve, fix, or discard — nothing counts until you say so.
Export client-ready timesheets and invoices from approved entries, or just ask: "What did I ship last week?" — answered locally, with citations.
Your meetings, notes, and client work are sensitive — so DaySpire keeps them on your Mac instead of asking you to trust a cloud policy. It starts metadata-first: screen content, microphone use, and evidence retention require explicit user action inside the app. Full details live in the privacy & trust documentation.
| Data type | Default | Optional | Leaves Mac? |
|---|---|---|---|
| App/window metadata | Yes, after resume | Excluded apps/domains | No |
| Raw keystrokes | No | No | No |
| Clipboard contents | No | No | No |
| Meeting audio | No | Record/import explicitly | No |
| Screen summaries | No | Opt-in, visible, privacy controlled | No |
| License metadata | Trial is local | License-only account check | Only activation data |
The app opens with just Today, Review, Meetings, and Reports. Ask DaySpire (⌘K) answers questions, explains features, and does the work for you — every advanced surface stays one tap away under More.
Your day at a glance: what was captured, what needs review, and the next best action.
Approve, edit, or discard suggested time blocks — with confidence scores and evidence attached.
Record or import explicitly, transcribe locally, name speakers, and get minutes, decisions, and tasks.
Client-ready timesheets and invoices, exported only from entries you approved.
Ask what you worked on, how a feature works, or tell it to approve, export, and file for you. It proposes; you confirm.
Search, Projects, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Focus, Evidence, Insights, Privacy, and Settings — nothing removed, just out of the way.
Compared with the main categories of tools people use for time, notes, and meetings. Based on publicly available product information as of mid-2026 — capabilities vary by product and change over time.
| Core Capability | DaySpire | All-in-One Workspaces | AI Time Trackers (cloud) | Mac Time Trackers | Productivity Monitors (cloud) | Manual Timer Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Time Capture Logs work passively, no timers to start |
Yes, on-device | No (manual pages) | Yes (cloud) | Yes | Yes (cloud) | Partial (timeline assist; timers primary) |
| Meeting Notes Without A Bot Transcripts, minutes, decisions, and tasks from real meetings |
Yes, transcribed locally | Cloud AI notes | No | No | No | No |
| Ask Your Workday Semantic search and cited answers across apps, meetings, and time |
Yes, with citations | Only what you typed in | No | No | No | No |
| Client-Ready Timesheets & Invoices PDF/XLSX exports you can hand to a client |
Yes, from approved entries | Templates only | Exports | Yes | No | Yes |
| AI Runs On Your Mac No work content sent to vendor servers for AI processing |
Yes, by architecture | No (cloud AI) | No (cloud AI) | Partial (local data, cloud AI) | No (cloud) | No (cloud) |
| Works Fully Offline Capture, AI, search, and reports without internet |
Yes, end to end | Limited | No | Mostly | No | Limited |
Wikis are great at notes and timers are great at clocks — DaySpire is built to capture, understand, and report your whole workday entirely on your Mac.
How DaySpire balances useful macOS work memory with a clear local processing boundary.
DaySpire's runtime meeting intelligence uses bundled local transcription and local speaker identification. Audio recordings, transcripts, summaries, and task extractions are processed on your device, so work content stays off DaySpire servers.
Your daily timeline, window activity counts, meeting transcripts, and project indices are written directly to an encrypted local database. Access keys are managed safely inside the macOS Keychain. The database attaches directly inside your app’s user container path and is invisible to other user accounts.
DaySpire is built so that work content stays on your machine. There are no runtime cloud AI calls for transcripts, screenshots, notes, project context, or approved time entries.
DaySpire asks for each permission when the feature that needs it is first used, and works in a reduced mode if you decline. Accessibility reads app and window titles for automatic capture. Microphone records meetings only when you start or approve a recording. Screen Recording is used only if you enable optional screen-text summaries. Calendar (optional) links meetings to projects. Watched-folder access covers only folders you add. DaySpire never monitors keystrokes or the clipboard, and projects you mark as highly sensitive have screenshots disabled by default.
Yes. DaySpire license keys contain signed tokens that the native application validates locally. Online account checks are license-only, and offline codes are available for secure zones.
The app itself is small. The private AI that makes it useful is not — and it lives on your disk, not on a server.
Apple Silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 14 Sonoma or newer. Intel Macs are not supported.
The app is a 38 MB download. On first run it downloads about 12 GB of on-device AI models — one time, in the background, with pause, resume, and cancel in Settings. Plan for about 13 GB of free disk space for the models plus your local database.
Activity capture, projects, review, and manual time entry work right away. Meeting transcription, minutes, and Ask DaySpire unlock as their model packs finish downloading.
Accessibility for app and window titles; Microphone only when you record; Screen Recording only if you enable optional screen summaries; Calendar optional. Each is requested when first used, never bundled.
DaySpire Pro
$14.99/month
after a free 14-day trial that runs entirely on your Mac.
Automatic timesheets, private meeting minutes, and a searchable work memory — reviewed by you, stored on your Mac.
2026 APPLE SILICON BETA · v0.4.13 · 38 MB app + ~12 GB on-device AI
SHA-256: 7d59d3a2ca96aa4e5180dfcec2a2b066921d3582d71a432a26b21bdabec07893 · macOS 14 Sonoma or newer
Free 14-day trial · No account or credit card · $14.99/mo after