Question 1

How is Chronio different from RescueTime, Toggl, or Clockify?

Accepted Answer

Those tools were built for other jobs. Toggl and Clockify track hours so you can bill a client: the hour is the product, and what it went toward barely matters. RescueTime watches your screen and grades you afterward against its own idea of “productive.” Chronio starts from the other end. Before the week begins, you decide what matters: your life's pillars, and the goals inside them you want to grow or cap. Chronio tracks against that. Tracking is manual, and there is no screen monitoring. The question it answers is not “how many hours?” or “where did my time go?” but “did my time go where I meant it to?”

Question 2

Does Chronio track my screen or take screenshots?

Accepted Answer

No. Chronio never watches your screen, logs which apps you use, or takes screenshots, and nothing runs in the background. You start and stop timers yourself, or log a count by hand. That is deliberate: the moment you stop to record something honestly is part of the reflection, and it is a habit that automatic tracking removes for you. It costs a little friction and buys you a tool that is not assembling a record of everything you do.

Question 3

Can Chronio actually help me keep a New Year's resolution?

Accepted Answer

It is built for that exact failure. Resolutions usually collapse because “read more” or “get fit” has no number and no checkpoint. In Chronio a goal is specific and measurable (“read three hours this week”), and every week you set the target, track against it, and review the gap. A resolution becomes 52 small, checkable weeks instead of one vague year. It will not do the work for you, but it removes the reason most resolutions have vanished by February.

Question 4

Can a goal in Chronio make me spend less time on something?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every goal points one of two ways: an AIM is a target you are trying to reach; a LIMIT is a cap you are trying to stay under. A LIMIT (five hours of news a week, an hour of gaming a day) is a full goal in its own right, tracked and scored the same way a target is. Most tools only handle “do more.” Chronio treats “do less” as an equal kind of intention, which is closer to how digital-minimalism goals actually work.

Question 5

How do I know if my time matches my priorities?

Accepted Answer

That is the report Chronio is built to produce. Because every activity rolls up into a goal and every goal into a pillar, the weekly summary adds up to a picture: which pillars got their share, which were skipped, which goals were hit and which slipped. You set the plan at the start of the week, Chronio sets it beside what actually happened, and the gap is the answer. Without that structure, a time report is a list of logged hours. With it, the report tells you whether your time went where you meant it to.

Question 6

Is Chronio really free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Chronio is free while it is in beta, with no card required. A paid plan will come later, and the people using it now get preferential treatment when it does.

Question 7

Can I export my data?

Accepted Answer

Always. Your data is yours. Export the whole thing to CSV or Excel whenever you want. No lock-in.

Question 8

Is there a mobile app?

Accepted Answer

Chronio is a responsive web app that works well on a phone, and it is an installable PWA with its own mobile navigation. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app. There is no separate App Store or Play Store download.

Question 9

What is the Chronio browser extension?

Accepted Answer

A browser extension that lets you start a timer, or save an article, video, or course straight into your goal structure, without leaving the page you are on. Get it for Chrome or Firefox; it syncs with your library, and with Notion if you connect it.

Question 10

Can I use the AI features?

Accepted Answer

The in-app AI (the planning assistant and voice logging) and the Claude/ChatGPT connector are in limited testing during the beta. They are switched on per account: sign up, then ask from Settings → AI and we will enable them for you.

Question 11

What happens to my data, and is it private?

Accepted Answer

It stays yours, and private to your account. We do not sell your data, there is no advertising or ad-tech, and nothing watches your screen. The only outside services that touch it are the ones that run Chronio (hosting and database, both in the EU) and the optional features you switch on yourself, such as AI planning, Notion, Trello, or your own Claude or ChatGPT. Nothing is shared beyond that. Your data stays exportable, and you can delete it whenever you want. The full list of subprocessors is in the privacy policy.

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