If you'd like additional help with the app, please don't hesitate to contact us. So it's possible to see what you wanted to see in the app.ĬPU usage is something we don't track and have never mentioned tracking, so being disappointed by its non-existence is tough to respond to. When you chose to hide it from the dock, it turns into an icon in your menu bar click that icon and you can quit it as usual.Īs for your other comments, Time Sink tracks window activity, and summarizes that activity in both foreground and background time. I'm sorry you had such troubles with our app. This app is cheap and I would have trashed it and forgotten about it, if it were not for the amount of time I have wasted trying to figure out what the heck it was doing. I was unable to check the logs and was forced to remove the app using App Cleaner, then reinstall it to see if I could get it doing anything near what I needed. After that I could not find the app anywhere, even though Activity Monitor showed it running. Ideally I would have liked to have hidden the app from my son, so I chose the Preference to conceal it in the Dock. TS does not say if the gaming app is launched or if it is chewing up CPU.

A defining characteristic of a time sink is that due to the immersiveness of the game, the time spent playing these games feels small when in reality, the gamer has been playing for hours. The TS app does not do much more than Acitivity Monitor and records apps like Safari running in the background the same as the gaming apps, so it is totally useless to me. A term used for videogames that require a great amount of time to be invested in them. I wanted an app to tell me how long my recalcitrant 25 yo, unemployed son was gaming whilst I was out at work, and to see how much time he spent on the iMac wearing out my hard drive. The data from this app is of no help to me at all.

Time sink.