APM Explorer

See your work rhythm. Keep your work private.

APM Explorer is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that turns broad input activity into useful hourly patterns — without recording what you type, where you click, or which apps you use.

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Platform
macOS 13+
Quick view
Last 12 hours
Hourly retention
60 days
Hourly activityToday, at a glance
Updates every 5 minutes
Complete monitoring coverage42 hourly APM
The guide

From permission to useful patterns

APM Explorer stays out of the way once it is set up. These short guides cover the full workflow and the privacy decisions behind it.

  1. 01Set up Input MonitoringGrant the one macOS permission APM Explorer needs, confirm that it is listening, and optionally launch it at login.4 min read ↗
  2. 02Read your activityUse the menu bar strip for a quick check, then open the hourly heatmap to explore your recent rhythm.3 min read ↗
  3. 03Know what stays privateSee exactly what is counted, what is never collected, and how long local summaries are retained.2 min read ↗
01

Glanceable

A compact 12-hour strip lives behind the menu bar icon. Open the larger heatmap only when you want detail.

02

Honest about gaps

Monitored zeroes, partial coverage, and unavailable hours look different, so missing data is never presented as inactivity.

03

Local by design

Activity summaries stay on your Mac. The app has no network entitlement, account, telemetry, or cloud sync.