The 24-hour day log
Where did the other hours go?
You already know roughly where your time goes. Dayportrait holds the whole day — all twenty-four hours — and shows you the part you never write down. Recording is free.
Coming soon to the App Store iOS · free to record · no accountMost time logs are abandoned in the first weeks
The reasons are the same everywhere they are written up, and none of them is willpower.
Too much to keep up
A log that wants every minute gets none
Hold and drag across hours you already know, and one gesture covers the whole stretch. You are never filling in a form per entry.
It made you feel behind
An empty hour is not a debt
Nothing counts how much of your day you filled in. No streak, no badge, no red. A log that rewards filling gets filled with days nobody lived.
Nothing to look at
The numbers never became a picture
Days add up into a portrait, not a table. A day, a week, a year — the same shape, and the first one is ready on day one.
The unit
The day always closes
Every day adds up to twenty-four hours: the part you wrote down plus the part you didn’t. Two entries can never overlap, and the line under the column says both numbers out loud. That is why the picture above stops at twenty-three.
Two doors
Log it now, or paint it in later
Start a timer
One tap while it is happening. The block grows against the clock and stops when you do.
Or paint the day in
Hold anywhere on the canvas and drag. Same entry, same ledger — neither one is the proper way.
The payoff
A year you can look at
One column a day, in the colours of your own categories. The blank ones stay blank — a year with no quiet days is not a year anybody has had.
What is free, and what is not
Free, forever: both ways to log, with no cap on entries, activities or categories. The whole day at three scales. The line that makes it add up to 24. Fixing, splitting and backfilling any day, at any date. Every period — day, week, month, year — by category.
Pro: reading back across facets past a single day, three more cards in the year picture, and how to split time you spent alongside someone. Recording is never what you pay for.
Fair questions
Do I have to log all twenty-four hours?
No. The day adds up to twenty-four whether you write it or not — that is arithmetic, not a target. Hours you leave alone are drawn as unwritten and counted as unwritten, and nothing in the app asks you to go back for them.
How is this different from a work time tracker?
A work tracker measures the projects you chose to track, and the rest of your life is off its books. This one starts from the day and closes it. Sleep, commuting and the evening are in the ledger by default, which is why the total can be checked.
What happens to the hours I forget?
They stay unwritten. There is no counter of them, no notification about them, and no colour that means you are behind. When you look back at the year, they are drawn honestly — that is the point of a log that closes.