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Desktop time tracking and project management

Track the hour. Approve it. Pay and bill from it.

Ruwad Connect records work on the desktop: time, screenshots at your plan's cadence, breaks and idle time. It turns the hours a manager approves into payroll and client invoices.

Free for ten people and three projects, no card needed. Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.
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The Ruwad Connect web workspace overview: hours today, this week and this month, a 30-day activity trend, this week's bars per day, projects by time, the verification panel and recent entries.
The web workspaceHours today, this week and this month, the 30-day trend, projects by time and the verification panel, on one page.
Screenshots
Every monitorat the plan's cadence, with blur available
Webcam checks
Random, in hoursStarter and above
Approved hours become
Payroll and invoiceswith payslip and receipt PDFs
Exports
CSV · XLSX · JSONplus ClickUp and Zoho Projects files

Why it matters

An unproven hour costs you twice.

Once when you pay for it, and again when a client questions the invoice it is on. Ruwad Connect exists so that every hour you pay for or bill has a record behind it.

Without itWith Ruwad Connect

Timesheets filled in from memory on Friday afternoon.

Time recorded as it happens, on the project and the task it belongs to.

Idle minutes paid as work because nobody could tell.

Idle time noticed, asked about, and excluded on the server.

A client questions an invoice line and there is nothing behind it.

Every billed hour is an approved entry with its captures behind it.

Payroll from one spreadsheet, invoices from another, and they never agree.

Both generated from the same approved hours, so the figures match.

A monitoring policy set on each laptop, differently, without anyone's consent.

One policy on the server, read by every tracker, with each person's consent recorded.

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The product

From the first minute to the last invoice.

Six screens, in the order a working day passes through them.

  1. The desktop tracker

    Punch in on a project and a task.

    A small app for Windows that runs while someone is working. Pick the project and the task, start the timer, and the tray icon shows that tracking is on. Breaks are a button, not a guess.

    • Project and task pickers, so every hour belongs to the work it was spent on
    • Take Break and Punch Out, with today's progress against the day's hours
    • Records only what the workspace's plan and settings allow

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    The Ruwad Connect desktop tracker while punched in: a running timer, two screens being captured, Take Break and Punch Out buttons, the project and task pickers, today's progress against eight hours, and today's worked, break, activity and screenshot figures.

  2. Captures

    See the day as it was recorded.

    Screenshots from every monitor at the plan's cadence, laid on an hourly activity chart. Each capture carries the time, the activity level and the app that was on screen, and each one gets a short AI description and a category.

    • Blur available, so the review shows the shape of the work and not the content
    • Active, idle and inactive time for the day, per person
    • A daily AI summary rolls the captures up (Starter and above)

    What the tracker records

    The Captures page: screenshots, active, idle and inactive time and average activity for one person and one day, an hourly activity chart, and the screenshot cards with the time, activity percentage and the app on screen.

  3. Approvals

    Approve a day's hours in one pass.

    Timesheets show every session with its project, breaks and work time. Select the entries that look right and approve them together; reject the one that does not, and it comes back out of everything it touched.

    • Approving updates the task's actual hours and the project's budget at once
    • Idle time the app asked about is already left out on the server
    • Export the sheet's sessions as CSV, JSON or a text report; rejected ones are left out
    The Timesheets page with two entries selected and an Approve selected bar: each row shows the time span, session, project, status, break and work time.

  4. Projects

    The task carries its own hours.

    Boards, lists, sprints, a calendar and a Gantt for planning; and on every task, a Time tab where the timer starts and the logged hours accumulate. The plan and the record are the same object.

    • Start a timer or log time from the task itself
    • Total hours, entries and contributors on each task
    • A project's budget rises as approved hours arrive against it

    Projects and approvals

    A project board with a task open in its side panel on the Time tab: a Start timer button, Log time, and the task's total hours, entries and contributors.

  5. Payroll

    Pay people from the hours you approved.

    One button builds the month from approved hours times each member's rate, with overtime. Approve the run, mark it paid, and every person gets a payslip PDF.

    • Regular and overtime hours, rate, gross and net for each member
    • Manual edits stay possible before a run is approved
    • Gross, net, paid and unpaid totals for the period at the top
    The Payroll page for one month: gross, net, paid and unpaid totals and hours, a Generate from hours button, and a table of four people with regular and overtime hours, rate, gross, deductions, net and a paid, approved or pending status.

  6. Invoices

    Bill clients from the same record.

    Generate an invoice for a client and project from approved billable hours at the project's rate. Download the PDF or email it from the app; marking it paid issues a receipt.

    • Paid, outstanding and overdue at a glance
    • Receipt PDF when an invoice is marked paid
    • Push customers and invoices to QuickBooks Online

    Pay people and bill clients

    The Invoices page: paid, outstanding and overdue totals, a Generate from time button, and an invoice row with its number, client, project, issue and due dates, total and draft status.

After approval

What an approved hour becomes

Payroll, invoices, receipts and exports all read the same approved hours, so the figures agree with each other.

Payroll
A run for any period, computed from approved hours times each member's rate, with overtime. Approve it, mark it paid, and download a payslip PDF for each person.
Invoices
Generated for a client and project from approved billable hours at the project's billing rate, as a PDF you can email from the app.
Receipts
Mark an invoice paid and a receipt PDF is issued for it.
Exports
Time by member or by project as CSV, XLSX or JSON, or as CSV files laid out for importing into ClickUp and Zoho Projects.
QuickBooks Online
Connect a QuickBooks Online company and push customers and invoices to it.

Start today

Install the tracker on one machine and watch the first hour arrive.

Create a workspace, download the tracker, punch in. The captures, the timesheet and the approval are all there within the hour.

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Free plan
10 people · 3 projects
Windows
10 or later, 64-bit
Installer
.exe, or .msi for IT rollouts
Card
Not needed on Free

How it works

Five steps from an empty workspace to the first payslip and the first invoice.

  1. Create a workspace

    Register on the web. The Free plan holds ten people and three projects, and every plan includes the tracker, projects, approvals, payroll and invoicing.

  2. Invite the team, add the clients

    Employees get an email, accept, and install the tracker. Clients are the companies you bill: their projects carry the rate, and they receive invoices and receipts by email, never a screenshot.

  3. Track

    People punch in on a project and a task. The tracker records time, screenshots, breaks and idle time at the plan's cadence, after each person has given consent.

  4. Approve

    A manager reviews the timesheets and approves the entries. Task hours and project budgets update on the spot.

  5. Pay and bill

    Generate payroll from approved hours and invoices from approved billable time. Payslips, invoices and receipts are PDFs; exports go wherever the rest of your books live.

How your data is handled

Screenshots and photos
Private storageopened only through signed links that expire within 15 minutes
Workspaces
Kept apartthe server refuses a request for another workspace's records
Consent
Checked by the servertracking does not start until the person has accepted the current version
Windows installer
Signedby AVMDEVS LLC, through Microsoft Trusted Signing

Who it is for

Built for teams that pay and bill by the hour

  • A stack of printed invoices and a timesheet on a pale desk with a fountain pen laid across them.

    Agencies that bill by the hour

    Every invoice line is an approved hour on a named project at that project's rate, with the captures behind it if a client ever asks.

    Invoices and receipts

  • A home-office desk by a window at dawn with a closed laptop, headphones and a cup.

    Remote and hybrid teams

    See who is punched in and what they are on, review the day's captures, and pay people from hours a manager has already checked.

    Who is punched in

  • Three blank brushed-steel nameplates side by side on a navy office wall.

    Companies with several entities

    Run more than one workspace from one sign-in, switch between them on the web, and hold a different role in each.

    People, clients and workspaces

Questions

Before you install it

Does it work without the desktop app?

The web workspace works on its own for projects, approvals, payroll and invoices, and time can be logged on a task by hand. Screenshots, webcam checks and idle detection need the desktop tracker, because they happen on the computer where the work is done.

Can people see what is recorded about them?

Before anything is captured, the first launch shows each person what the workspace records and asks for their consent. The version they agreed to is checked by the server, and nothing is captured until they have given it. A person can open their own Captures page at any time.

Who decides the screenshot cadence?

The plan does. The desktop reads the cadence from the server each time and cannot raise it; an admin can only lower it or turn blur on. Free takes one an hour, Starter twelve, and Professional and Enterprise up to 30, the tracker's densest cadence.

What happens when someone walks away from the keyboard?

The app notices and asks what happened. The idle time is left out of the entry on the server, not just on the screen, and tracking pauses on its own if the app loses contact with the server.

Is there a Mac version?

Not yet. The tracker is a Windows app today (Windows 10 or later, 64-bit). The web workspace works in any modern browser, on a Mac too.

Can we try it before paying?

Yes. The Free plan has no charge and holds ten people and three projects. Paid plans can start with a trial at checkout, and plans are changed from the billing page in the workspace.

Start with a free workspace. Prove the first hour today.

Create the workspace on the web, install the tracker on one machine, punch in. The Free plan holds ten people and three projects and needs no card.

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