{/} Case study 02 · Desktop app · Time-tracking agent

My Virtual Tracker Desktop

The desktop agent behind My Virtual Tracker: pick a task, press start, and it tracks time, apps and screenshots while you work — with a mini timer, a tray menu and privacy controls you can see, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Industry: Remote work · Workforce productivity
Platforms: Windows · macOS · Linux (Tauri)
Stack: Tauri 2 · Rust · React · TypeScript
Scope: Desktop agent for My Virtual Tracker · Design & development

01 — The problem

A tracking platform is only as honest as its desktop agent: it has to count real work, not idle time, run quietly all day on every kind of machine, and show people exactly what it records about them.

02 — Our solution

A native Tauri agent that tracks a task or a project, separates active from idle time, and captures apps and screenshots only while the timer runs. It shrinks to a mini timer or the tray, fits five window layouts from Easy read to Extended, and puts private breaks, blur and never-capture rules in the member’s own hands.

03 — The outcome

Released and updating itself on Windows 10 and 11, the older Windows 7 to 8.1, both kinds of Mac and Linux — the same hours, apps and screenshots the My Virtual Tracker dashboard reports on.

builds — Windows 10/11, Windows 7–8.1, Apple Silicon, Intel Mac, Linux

window layouts, from Easy read to Extended

ways to keep it close — window, mini timer, tray

screenshots taken while the timer is off

Inside the product

Tracking

Pick a project or a task and press start. Today against your limit, activity, the week, the project budget, your top apps and the latest screenshots sit around the timer.

A layout for every screen

Standard, Wide, Extended, Focus or Easy read — large type for low vision — in a dark or light theme. The window resizes itself to fit.

Standard layout with the team, projects, the timer, today and the week chart

Extended layout with the stats, the week’s top apps and recent screenshots side by side

Focus layout with a play and pause control, the stats and the task list in a column of its own

Easy read layout: large type with only the project, the task, the timer and pause, break and stop

The agent in its light theme while tracking a project

Always within reach

A mini timer that stays on top of other windows, a tray menu with keyboard shortcuts, and notifications for approvals, messages and updates.

The mini timer that stays on top of other windows, and the tray menu with pause, stop and open shortcuts

Tracker notifications: screenshots waiting for review, an approved timesheet, a message from a manager and an installed update

Privacy you can see

Take a private break, choose which screen is recorded and how strongly it is blurred, see what was collected today, and add apps or sites that are never captured.