G2

HS

Haider S.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/4/2026

"Accurate Automatic Time Tracking with Insightful Weekly Reports"

4/5

Describe the project or task Rize helped with:

The automatic tracking is the part I actually rely on. I don't start or stop anything, and at the end of the day I have an accurate picture of where my hours went instead of a guess. That matters more than it sounds when you run a small team and every hour has an opportunity cost attached to it.

The category breakdown is what changed my behaviour. Seeing that a "productive" day was actually 40% context switching is uncomfortable but useful. Focus sessions with distraction blocking, break nudges, and the meeting time pulled from my calendar all do their job without much configuration. The weekly reports are the thing I open most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Rize?

The automatic tracking is the part I actually rely on. I don't start or stop anything, and at the end of the day I have an accurate picture of where my hours went instead of a guess. That matters more than it sounds when you run a small team and every hour has an opportunity cost attached to it.

The category breakdown is what changed my behaviour. Seeing that a "productive" day was actually 40% context switching is uncomfortable but useful. Focus sessions with distraction blocking, break nudges, and the meeting time pulled from my calendar all do their job without much configuration. The weekly reports are the thing I open most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rize?

The categorisation needs training. For the first week or two I was correcting it fairly often, especially for niche dev tools and browser tabs that could plausibly be either work or not. It gets better, but budget for that.

There's no mobile app, so anything done off the machine goes unrecorded unless you add it manually. It's also built around the individual rather than the team, so if you want shared reporting across people you'll be exporting and stitching things together yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rize:

Two notes before you post it. First, if the mobile app or team reporting complaints don't match your experience, cut them, since G2 flags reviews that read as generic. Second, swapping in one concrete number of your own (hours recovered per week, or a specific category that surprised you) will do more for the review's credibility than anything else in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rize solving and how is that benefiting you?

It replaced guesswork about where our time goes. I can now see how much of a week went to actual build work versus meetings, admin, and interruptions, which makes scoping and pricing work far more honest. Cutting even a few hours a week of low-value time pays for the subscription several times over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.