FAQ

How far your pointer travels, your left, right and other clicks, and how far you scroll. If you turn it on, it also counts how many keys you press each hour. Everything is counted on this Mac only. See How counting works.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel, and any mouse or trackpad.

No. Deskathon counts only while it’s open. Turn on Open at login in Settings › General so it starts with your Mac. See Get started.

Deskathon lives in the menu bar. If you want a Dock icon too, turn on Show in Dock in Settings › General.

English (US and UK), Romanian, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. It uses your Mac’s language. To use a different one for Deskathon only, open Settings › General and choose it under App language. The main window, the panel and the widgets switch at once; menus and Feedback follow the next time Deskathon opens.

Landmarks put your distance in perspective, for example “about 1.3 times the Brooklyn Bridge”. Trips, such as London to Paris, measure your lifetime distance as a journey. Both are free. See Lifetime, landmarks and trips.

Only for these: sending feedback, the optional usage and crash-report switches, and the App Store, which Deskathon asks for the price when you open the Pro sheet or Settings › Pro, and when you buy or restore Pro. None of these carries your distances, counts or heat maps. See Privacy and your data.

On your Mac, in Deskathon’s own folder in your user account. It isn’t synced to iCloud or sent to us. Settings › Privacy & Data has a Show in Finder button, and the privacy policy has the details.

No. The heat map records only where the pointer was, never what was on screen. See Heat Map.

Only if you turn on keyboard counting. macOS uses the same wording for every app with this permission, including “keystrokes from any application”. Deskathon only counts how many keys you press per hour and never reads which key. Say no, and everything else works. See Keyboard counting.

Yes. Deskathon doesn’t ask again on its own. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Input Monitoring and turn Deskathon on. The Open System Settings button in Settings › Keyboard takes you there.

Open Settings › Privacy & Data. Export CSV… saves one row per hour, and it’s free. Erase All Data… removes every count and restarts Lifetime, and it can’t be undone, so export first if you want a copy.

Yes. Click Pause in the panel and choose Pause for 1 Hour, Pause Until Tomorrow or Pause Until I Resume. Nothing is counted while paused, and Deskathon doesn’t fill in the gap.

It uses the physical size each display reports to macOS. If a display reports the wrong size, turn off Use detected size and enter its diagonal in Settings › Displays. Distance already counted stays as measured.

Yes. Every display counts at its own scale and gets its own heat map. See How counting works.

No. Nothing is counted while the Mac sleeps, while the screen is locked or while another user’s session is in front.

The menu bar cuts digits off instead of rounding them, so the number only counts forward. With Short numbers on, it shows fewer digits to stay narrow next to the notch.

No. It’s a one-time in-app purchase with Family Sharing. The App Store shows the price for your country. See Deskathon Pro.

Counting, the menu bar item and panel, Today, Lifetime, the last 7 days of History, today’s heat map, the Small widget, the Today share card, export, erase and pause are free. Pro shows all the days you have recorded, with Month and Year views and Records, heat maps for past days, more share cards, and the Medium and Large widgets. Deskathon keeps your full history either way.

Open Settings › Pro and click Restore Purchases, signed in with the Apple Account you bought Pro with. If someone in your family group bought it, use your own Apple Account and click Restore Purchases if Pro doesn’t unlock on its own.

On a crowded menu bar, macOS can hide items behind the camera housing or off the edge. Quit a few menu bar apps, or set Menu bar text to None (icon only) in Settings › General so the item takes less room. See I can’t see the menu bar icon.

macOS limits how often widgets refresh while Deskathon is in the background. Widgets show “Updated N min ago” once they’re more than 15 minutes old. Open Deskathon and your widgets catch up within a minute. See Widgets.