Voltti

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 25, 2026

Voltti is an app for Mac and Windows that tracks how you spend your time on your own computer, automatically, in the background. This page explains exactly what that means for your data: what stays on your computer, what we send to our servers, and what we never touch.

What Voltti tracks on your computer

While Voltti is running, it records which app is in the foreground and its window title, and, for browsers, the address of the active tab. It uses that to measure how much time you spend in each app and on each website, and to decide on its own whether a website counts as work (social media and streaming, for example, don't). This activity data is stored in a local database on your computer. It's never uploaded, except for the optional weekly report and, if you're on Pro and use Voltti on more than one computer, the minute-by-minute summary described under "Using Voltti on more than one computer" below. Window titles and full tab addresses never leave your computer.

To tell real work from fake activity, Voltti checks whether each mouse and keyboard event comes from a real mouse, trackpad or keyboard, or was sent by software (an automation tool, a mouse jiggler, a script or remote control). It only notes the time of the last real event: never which keys you press, what you type or where you click, and none of it leaves your computer. Software-sent input doesn't count as you being at work.

To show a website's icon next to its time, Voltti downloads that icon directly from the website itself, once, and keeps it on your computer. That site sees the request the same way it would if you visited it. We don't use a third-party icon service, so no list of the sites you visit reaches us or anyone else.

If you add a role in Settings, it stays on your computer and only appears on the Daily Report images you choose to download. A profile photo also appears on those images, and if you're on the leaderboard it's shared there too (see below).

What we collect if you create an account

Creating a Voltti account (by email and password, or by signing in with Google) sends the following to our backend, run on Supabase:

• Email address: used to identify your account and for transactional email (sign-in confirmation, receipts).
• Display name: whatever you set in Settings, shown only to you and, if you opt into the leaderboard, to other leaderboard participants.
• Subscription status: whether you're on Pro, which payment provider you subscribed through, and your renewal date, so the app knows which features to unlock.

If you sign in with Google, Google shares your email address and basic profile name with us to create the account. We never receive your Google password, and we don't request access to your Gmail, Drive, or any other Google data beyond identifying who you are.

The leaderboard and friends (fully optional)

The leaderboard is off by default. If you turn it on, our leaderboard server receives:

• Your total tracked time for the current day, week, month, and year, plus each day's total for the last 35 days (so a past day, like yesterday, can still be ranked)
• The display name from your Profile, and the email address of your Voltti account (used only to connect friend invites sent to that address to you; it's never shown to anyone)
• Your streak (how many days in a row you tracked 4 hours or more), shown next to your name unless you turn off "Show streak"
• Your 5 most used apps and the time on each, for today, this week, this month and this year. These power the per-app boards (who leads on Figma, for example) and, if you turn on "Top apps", the top apps your friends can see. Turn off both "Per-app boards" and "Top apps" in Settings and they're no longer sent, and the ones already sent are deleted.
• Your profile photo, as a small image (160 pixels), shown next to your name to other players

On voltti.app: this week's top 10 on the leaderboard appear on our homepage with their display name, profile photo and hours. Joining the leaderboard includes this; leave the leaderboard and you're removed from it.

The social features send what you create with them:

• Friends: who you add, accept, remove or block, and any email address you type to invite someone. We keep that email only to match it when that person signs up; we don't email them.
• Notes: the text of a note you post, shown next to your name for 24 hours.
• Nudges: who you nudged and when.
• Battles: who you challenge, the stakes you type, and your tracked time during each battle (or your time in one app, for an app battle).

The leaderboard never receives window titles or the addresses of browser tabs, and other players never see which websites or apps you used beyond the top-5 list above. The only exception is the private cross-device summary below, which is only ever used for you.

The weekly report (Pro, optional)

If you're on Pro, Voltti builds your weekly report PDF every Sunday morning on the computer you used most that week, adding in the time from your other computers, and sends it to our server so it can be emailed to you. The PDF contains your week's summary, including the names of the apps and websites you used and the time spent on each. So the email still goes out if your computer is asleep on Sunday, a copy of the latest report is also kept in your account's private storage. You can turn the weekly report off any time in Settings.

Using Voltti on more than one computer (Pro)

If you're on Pro and use Voltti on more than one computer with the same account, each computer sends our leaderboard server, with every sync, a minute-by-minute summary of today and yesterday. For each minute it records the app you were in (by name) or, for time that doesn't count as work, the website's domain (for example youtube.com) or the personal app's name. It never includes window titles or full addresses. Your other computers use it to add your time together, so your weekly report, focus score and distractions cover all of them; it's only ever shown to you, never to other players. We keep it for 35 days, then delete it. On Free, or with Voltti on just one computer, none of this is used.

AI standups (Pro, optional)

If you ask Voltti to write your standup, it shows you exactly what will be sent first: yesterday's app names with the time spent in each, your total and deep work time, your longest focus run and your role, if you set one. Window titles and website addresses are never sent. Our server passes these numbers to Anthropic's Claude model to write the update and sends the text back to you; neither the numbers nor the text are stored. We keep only a count of how many standups you made each day, to limit it to 10.

Deep work certificates (Pro, optional)

When you make a deep work certificate, Voltti sends that month's totals (tracked and deep work time, weekdays at 4 hours or more, your daily average, best day, longest focus run and your top four apps with their hours) to our server, which keeps a copy so anyone with the certificate's link or QR code can check it at voltti.app/v/ followed by its code.

The November Challenge (Pro, optional)

The November Challenge is a paid contest on voltti.app/challenge. Only people who enter take part. To enter, you type your Voltti username on the page, and it shows the details already public on the leaderboard so you can be sure it's you: your username, profile photo, the month you joined, whether you're on Pro, this month's hours and rank, and whether you use Voltti on a Mac, a PC or both. Anyone who types your username sees the same details.

When you enter, we record your username, the payment provider, the amount and its fee, the country of your connection and when you accepted the challenge terms. The challenge board on voltti.app and in the app shows each entrant's username, profile photo, counted weekday hours and, for the top 3, the prize they'd win right now.

Hours are counted the same way as on the leaderboard: time in work apps while you're active. Most apps stop counting 2 minutes after your last real mouse or keyboard input. Video calls, coding apps and render and design apps (Zoom, FaceTime, Slack calls, Google Meet, Claude, VS Code, Terminal, Blender, Cinema 4D, After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator and Media Encoder) keep counting for up to 20 minutes after it, since you often sit still in them while working.

To check for fake activity before the payout, we look at which minutes of each day counted on each of your computers (not what you were doing in them): very long days, long stretches with no break and hours in the middle of the night are flagged for a person to review. The three winners are asked by email for the bank or PayPal details we pay them to, used only for that payment. We keep challenge entries, daily totals and reviews for 12 months after the challenge ends, for our records and any payment questions, then delete them.

App updates and downloads

On Mac, Voltti checks voltti.app for new versions a few times a day. Like any web request, this shows our server your IP address and the app's version. On Windows, if you installed Voltti from the Microsoft Store, the Store handles updates. When you download Voltti from our website, we count the download along with your country and which button you used. We don't store your IP address with it.

Visiting voltti.app

To see how people find the website, voltti.app uses Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool we run ourselves. It counts page views, the site that referred you, and your browser, device type and country. It uses no cookies, doesn't track you across other websites, and doesn't store your IP address.

Payments

Voltti Pro subscriptions and November Challenge entries are processed by Paystack or Polar, depending on your region. Neither Voltti nor our servers ever see or store your card number, bank details, or other payment credentials, that information goes directly to whichever processor handles your checkout. We only receive a confirmation that a payment succeeded or failed, and use that to turn your Pro access on or off.

Who we share data with

We don't sell your data to anyone, and we don't use it for advertising.

Your choices

• Tracking works fully offline and never needs an account. Viewing your tracked time in the app requires signing in, and everything beyond that (leaderboard, weekly report, Pro subscription) is opt-in.
• You can leave the leaderboard at any time by toggling it off in Settings; your past leaderboard entries are removed.
• You can delete your account and its data by contacting us at the email below.

Children's privacy

Voltti isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under that age.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: support@voltti.app.