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They measure your productivity. We measure whether you stopped.

Every tool below is good at what it does. None of them does this.

RescueTimeBeeminderCold Turkey / FreedomScreen Time
CaughtShippingRescueTimeBeeminderCold Turkey / FreedomScreen Time (built in)
What it measuresWhether you were still shipping after curfewHours spent productivelyProgress on any goal you defineNothing. It blocksHours on screen
When you slipFive minutes of grace, then a public fallA nudge and a lower scoreYou pay $5, then $10, then $30You’re locked outAn “Ignore Limit” button
Who finds outEveryone on the WallYouYou and BeeminderNobodyYou
What leaves your machineHourly per-app totals. Never titles or URLsWindow titles, URLs, activity logsThe number you pledged onNothingNothing
PriceFree. Rested is $7/mo$9/mo or $84/yrFree, or $8/moOne-time purchase / $8.99/moFree

Competitor prices checked on their own pricing pages, October 2026. Individual plans, US dollars, before tax.

The audit

RescueTime

RescueTime is the audit. It watches everything you touch, grades the day, and shows you a productivity pulse. It is thorough and has been for fifteen years. It also captures window titles to do it.

CaughtShipping sees one thing: a watched app in the foreground after cutoff. It can’t tell you how productive Tuesday was. It can tell you Tuesday ended at 11:41 PM in Cursor, and so can everyone else.

The closest cousin

Beeminder

Beeminder is the closest cousin. Miss a goal, pay a pledge, and the pledge grows. It works because losing money hurts.

CaughtShipping swapped money for witnesses. A fall costs $0 and your streak, posted on the Blotter with your handle on it. One pays Beeminder. The other owes the Wall an explanation.

The locked door

Cold Turkey and Freedom

Blockers lock the door. Schedule a block and the editor won’t open until morning. For some people that is exactly right, and we mean that.

CaughtShipping has never force-quit anything. It doesn’t block. It watches, counts to five, and then tells. Adults who want to keep coding can. They just can’t pretend they didn’t.

Already installed

Screen Time and Focus

Already on your machine, already free, already ignored. App limits end with a button that says “Ignore Limit for Today,” and everyone presses it.

Downtime is private, which is the problem. A limit nobody can see is a suggestion.

Fair is fair

When you should pick them instead.

You wantA full picture of where every hour wentPick RescueTime.
You wantTo be physically unable to open the editorPick Cold Turkey or Freedom.
You wantTo bet money on a goal that isn’t about bedtimePick Beeminder.

Questions

The ones people ask before switching.

Yes. None of them watch the same thing. RescueTime plus CaughtShipping is common. Blockers work too, as long as the block starts after your curfew grace runs out.
You can. Set a Downtime, then count how many nights you press Ignore. That number is what we publish.
No. Hourly per-app totals only. No window titles, file names, URLs, keystrokes or screenshots.

Nobody sells rest. We publish it.

Free, and it never blocks anything.

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