Cut Time is a free menu bar app for video editors. Open Resolve, Premiere, After Effects or Final Cut and it quietly logs your real hours, per project. No timers. No setup. No reason not to.
Free forever · No credit card · Mac & Windows
Built for editors, not for the people watching them
Auto-tracks every project
Detects what you're working on. You don't have to start a timer.
Shows what's actually profitable
See which clients enable you, and see the ones draining you.
Lives in your task bar
Always there when you need it. Never in your way when you don't.
Why editors install it
Free forever, a few megabytes in your menu bar, and a work history that builds itself while you edit.
Free forever for individual editors. Not a trial, not a teaser with an expiry date. The tracker and your personal stats are free for life.
A tiny menu bar app. No windows to manage, no timers to babysit, no plugins inside your editing software. You will forget it's running.
No screen recording, no keystrokes, no surveillance. It only knows which project is open and how long you actually worked on it.
Every project becomes data you own: real hours, real rates, real proof for your next quote. You'll want last year's numbers someday. Start the archive now.
The only thing you can't get back is the untracked hours.