AI Time Tracker — Time, Tokens & Cost for ChatGPT, Claude

AI Time Tracker helps you understand how you use AI in your browser and make your next session more intentional. A quick question can become another prompt and another half-hour. See where that time goes, keep useful prompts close, and choose when to focus without another cloud usage account. Measure active time, detected submissions and estimated tokens. Review your own habits, set a daily goal, use focus sessions and organise a local prompt library. Supported chat websites are identified automatically; manage tracked tools in the extension's settings instead of maintaining a separate spreadsheet. Install free. Eligible installations include a seven-day Premium trial with no payment card and no automatic charge. Free remains available afterwards; purchasing is a separate choice. ACTIVE TIME, NOT JUST OPEN TABS Timing runs while a supported tab is active in a focused browser window. Switch away, minimise, pause tracking or become idle, and timing pauses. Leaving a tab open in the background does not count as continuous active use. Adjust the default 60-second idle threshold, exclude tools you do not want measured, or pause tracking entirely. Review totals from the toolbar dashboard or keep the side panel beside your current page. This measures browser activity under those conditions, not the quality of your attention, work completed or time spent in native desktop applications. UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS Prompts are detected submissions. Detection is best effort and can be affected by site redesigns. Model identifiers appear when detectable, not on every interaction. Tokens are length-derived estimates. Normal tracking processes prompt and reply text transiently to calculate measurements without saving that text. Optional history and explicit pins are separate storage features. Cost is estimated API-equivalent compute using configured blended rates and available output estimates or an assumed response ratio. It is not your subscription payment, invoice, exact provider billing or a guaranteed saving. COMPARE YOUR ROUTINE Premium and the active trial provide weekly time-by-tool charts and a 30-day prompt overview, subject to available retained records. Explore the day/hour heatmap, peak hours, recent changes and prompts per active hour. Use those views to notice patterns: which tool takes most of your time, when sessions cluster, or whether a changed routine looks different. More prompts per hour does not prove greater productivity. Set a daily time goal and review your local streak. Free provides a limited streak-card preview; Premium keeps that view available. You can classify tools as Deep work, Neutral or Distraction, with two category overrides on Free. The AI Dependency Score is a 0-100 usage heuristic, not an addiction diagnosis, mental-health assessment or measurement of how much thinking you outsource. Trend forecasts are projections, not reliable predictions. FOCUS AND INTENTIONAL WORK SESSIONS Choose domains to block, then start Focus for 25 minutes, 50 minutes or until stopped. Navigation to selected sites redirects to the extension's focus page while the rule is active. Nothing is blocked merely because you installed it. Free supports two blocked domains. Premium adds a larger list, recurring local-time schedules, opt-in daily-budget blocking and strict timed lock. Strict lock prevents the ordinary early-stop action; it is a commitment aid, not a firewall or tamper-proof restriction. For a structured work block, write an intention, add a task and choose a 25-minute work / five-minute break cycle or 50/10. The timer offers Start and Stop, not pause/resume. Free includes one session task; Premium expands capacity. The timer and Focus can be used separately or together, and the popup need not stay open. RATE WHAT HELPED Mark a session Done, Helped, Not useful or Still working. This separates activity from your own assessment of usefulness without asking a model to judge the work. The weekly coach uses local rules to explain recorded totals and self-ratings, such as time changes or days over your goal. It does not read your saved prompt library, call a remote coach or verify business results. The optional seven-day Balance Challenge aims for five balanced days. A balanced day combines recorded usage within your goal, a rated intentional session and a reviewed insight. Stopped sessions and Still working ratings can count. Progress remains local; ending the challenge does not delete ordinary usage history. LOCAL PROMPT TOOLS Prompt Studio turns a rough idea into a structured request using local templates. Bring context, instructions and an output shape together, then review the result before using it. No model call or provider API key is needed. Free includes four builds per day; Premium removes that build limit. Pin useful prompts explicitly in your local library. Free supports two pins; Premium allows up to 500. These are saved text entries, not unlimited cloud storage. Prompt History is optional and OFF by default. If you enable it, submitted prompt text, tracked conversation links and page titles are saved locally. Free keeps two rolling entries; Premium allows up to 500, subject to your shorter retention choices. Text is capped per entry, and replies are not saved. Turning capture off stops new entries but does not erase existing history. Use Clear history or the usage-deletion controls to remove saved data. Consider confidentiality before saving prompts or exporting files. SHARE ONLY WHAT YOU CHOOSE Generate local statistics cards and choose their fields before sharing: time, prompts, estimated tokens or cost, tools and streak. Omit figures you would rather keep private. Free includes one ordinary card per day and three Wrapped generations after one active day. Premium adds weekly/monthly Wrapped and removes generation limits. Sharing opens a destination or copies text/link at your request; it does not silently post. Product-sharing links are not a…