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Who is Rize for?
Rize is for anyone who greatly values their time and wants to improve their overall productivity. Some use cases include:
- Founders who need powerful tools to track productivity, prioritize tasks, and manage performance seamlessly.
- Freelancers looking to streamline time tracking and project budget management while staying productive across diverse work environments.
- Managers who want actionable insights into productivity, goal tracking, and meeting effectiveness to drive better results.
- Researchers seeking tailored tools for managing projects, deep work, and publication progress while balancing administrative tasks.
- Anyone striving to build productive habits, achieve personal goals, and maintain a balanced, customized approach to their workflow.
How does Rize track my activity?
Rize is a macOS and Windows app that automatically captures time spent on your desktop's focused window. For websites, it will connect and request the current url to help categorize any time spent in browsers.
For meetings, Rize allows you to integrate your Google Calendar to capture time in meetings even if your focused window is not the video call. This is helpful if you are presenting or multi-tasking.
What platforms does Rize support?
Rize is currently available for macOS (Mojave 10.14.6 or later) and Windows (Windows 10 or later). Support for Linux will be coming soon.
On macOS, Rize supports all major browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge, Arc, SigmaOS, Mighty and many more.
Rize tracks time spent on unsupported browsers, but is unable to categorize any activity by URL within the browser.
How does Rize protect my data?
Your data is hosted on Amazon Web Services, protected both physically and electronically. Your data is only accessible through your personal password-protected account, and any data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Our database generates backups of our data at least twice a day for redundancy.
Our team has engineering experience from top technology companies like Twitter and Periscope. Security is not an afterthought for us; we design, develop, and ship code with security as a top consideration.
What happens when I stop paying for my subscription?
If you decide to stop paying for Rize, you can retain access to your account and export past data. However, any new activity going forward will not be tracked.
Who is building Rize?
Rize was created by Will Goto and Macgill Davis. Together, they previously cofounded and ran a VC-backed startup for 3 years with over $3.1 million in funding.
Will has a background in front-end software engineering and design with work experience at Twitter, Periscope, and numerous early stage startups.
Macgill focuses primarily on back-end software engineering with work experience at Twitter and Peer. Previously, he cofounded and sold a company called GuideHire in Boston.
Rize is constantly growing, now with tens of thousands of daily active users.
What do you hope to accomplish?
We aim to build the first ever fitness app for your productivity. A tool that enables you to your productivity and focus, so you can achieve more in less time.
We feel a very strong personal connection to this project. The goal of continuously improving ourselves through quantifiable metrics and self-reflection is something that aligns deeply with our core values. We really hope to work on Rize for the long-term.
Do you have a referral program?
Yes. After signing up, you can share your referral code to give your friends one free month of Rize. You will also receive one free month of Rize for each friend that becomes a subscriber.
For those with considerable audiences, we have an ambassador program where you can earn 40% of any recurring subscription payments from your referrals.
