Work-Review

Work Review answers the question nobody can answer on Friday afternoon: what did I actually do this week? It runs on your machine, records which apps were in the foreground, which pages you had open, window titles, and how long each held your attention, then rolls that into a timeline and a daily report you can export as Markdown. Optional screenshots and OCR fill in the context you forgot. Rust and Tauri 2 under the hood, SQLite on disk, MIT licensed.

Local-first is not marketing here. Data lands in a SQLite file in your home directory and nothing leaves the machine unless you turn on the AI features, and even then it calls your own API key with no relay in between. The app works with AI switched off entirely, which is rarer than it should be. There is also a localhost REST API with a bearer token and an MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can query what you were working on last Tuesday without you digging through the UI.

Solo is the entire audience, and the README says so: personal use only, all data stays on your device. No team dashboard, no manager view, no server to run. That is a feature, not a gap. Against RescueTime at $12/mo or Rize starting around $9.99/mo billed annually, you pay nothing and keep the data, and the tradeoff is that nobody aggregates your team's hours for you.

The catch is that a tool recording window titles and screenshots is only as safe as the laptop it lives on. Months of OCR'd screen captures in an unencrypted home directory is a real liability, so turn on full disk encryption before you turn on screenshots. Support is also Chinese-first in practice: the app is translated into four languages, but the community lives in WeChat and Telegram.