DoneThat vs Rize

The short answer

Rize and DoneThat are the two closest products in this comparison. Both track automatically, both put AI on top, both are aimed at an individual knowledge worker rather than a payroll department. The split is what they measure.

Rize measures the shape of your attention: focus time, context switches, break patterns. DoneThat reconstructs the content of your work and coaches against your goals. Rize tells you that you switched contexts 47 times today. DoneThat tells you that you spent the afternoon on something that was not the thing you said mattered this week.

What each tool actually is

Rize captures focused-window metadata — application names, URLs, window titles — and turns it into focus analytics: how long you sustained attention, how often you broke it, when you took breaks. AI auto-categorises the activity, and an AI chat lets you interrogate your own tracked time.

DoneThat captures screen-first and reconstructs what the work was, then uses that history for coaching, goals, and as long-term memory an AI assistant can query.

The distinction matters more than it sounds. Window titles tell you which document was open. They do not tell you what you were doing in it, which is why a metadata-based tool can produce excellent focus statistics and still not answer "what did I actually get done this week?"

How each one records your time

Rize: window metadata, scored for focus

Rize's capture is automatic and lightweight — it reads what the focused window is and how long it holds focus. From that it derives its focus score, context-switching count, and break tracking. It is a clean, well-executed model, and for the specific question "am I fragmenting my attention?" it is sharper than anything else here, DoneThat included.

The ceiling is the same one every metadata-based tracker hits. Untitled - Google Docs and Q3 board deck - Google Docs are the same signal to a focus score and completely different work.

DoneThat: screen-first reconstruction

DoneThat reads the screen, so the reconstruction knows what the work was about rather than which window held it. That is what makes coaching against goals possible — Don can say you have drifted off the thing you said mattered, because it can tell what you drifted onto.

Being precise about the ask, since it is bigger than Rize's: screenshots are never stored. They are processed in real time and deleted immediately; only the structured activity derived from them persists. Excluded apps are redacted on your machine before anything is sent. With your own Gemini or OpenAI-compatible model, raw activity never reaches our servers. The desktop app is open source.

AI features compared

Both products put AI in front of your tracked time, and they are worth separating carefully because the marketing sounds identical.

The substantive difference is the last two rows. Rize's AI is something you go and ask. DoneThat's reaches out: Don nudges you onto goals, blocks calendar time, flags low-value work while you can still fix it, checks your mood, reminds you of meetings, suggests breaks. Whether that is a feature or an irritation is a real question of taste, which is why how much Don does is something you set.

Credit metering is the other practical difference. Rize's AI is capped per tier, so heavy use moves you up a plan.

Pricing compared

Rize pricing, as of 11 August 2026:

7-day full-feature trial, no card required. No free plan.

Two things worth knowing:

• MCP, API, webhooks and Zapier start at Pro, $23.99/month annually — about 2.4x the entry price. If integration is why you are looking at Rize, Basic is not the plan you are pricing.
• Mobile and SOC 2 are Enterprise-only. Not available on any self-serve tier.
• Neither tool bills. Rize's Pro tier adds client and scheduled reports as PDF and CSV, which is reporting and export rather than invoicing; there are no billable rates or invoices. DoneThat exports CSV and is not built to bill from either. If you need to charge clients from this data, both of us are the wrong tool and something like Timely or Clockify is the right one.

DoneThat is subscription-based with a 14-day free trial; current prices are on the DoneThat download page rather than restated here.

Platform support

If you work on Linux, this is the whole comparison: Rize does not ship for it as of August 2026, DoneThat does.

Where Rize is the better choice

• Attention fragmentation is the problem you are solving. Its context-switching and focus metrics are sharper than ours.
• You want the lightest capture that still works. Window metadata is a smaller ask than reading the screen, and for some people that settles it.
• You want focus music and break prompting in one place. Built in, not bolted on.
• You prefer AI you summon. If a coach reaching out sounds like a distraction, Rize's ask-it-when-you-want model fits better.
• A 7-day no-card trial suits you. Slightly faster to evaluate than a 14-day trial with signup.

Where DoneThat is the better choice

• You are on Linux. Rize has no Linux app yet.
• You want to know what the work was, not just how focused it was. Screen-first reconstruction versus window titles.
• You want the tool to reach out. Goal nudges, drift correction, mood checks, meeting reminders, break suggestions.
• You do not want AI metered. No credit caps to manage.
• You want MCP without an upgrade. Rize gates integrations behind Pro.
• Your team wants shared signal without surveillance. Summary-level dashboards, relative trends instead of per-person hours, per-summary visibility, optional mood tracking. Rize is single-player.
• You want peer accountability. Follow others, share summaries, Slack and Discord, accountability groups — all opt-in.

Can you run both?

Not sensibly. Two background trackers producing two different daily numbers is noise, and the overlap is large enough that you would be paying twice for the same category. Trial them in sequence — a fortnight each — and keep the one whose question is the one you actually have.

How we compared these

Everything stated about Rize comes from its public pricing and product pages, read on 11 August 2026 and linked below. Feature claims about DoneThat are first-hand: we build it, and you should read this with that bias in mind.

Rize's focus analytics are better than ours and its capture is lighter than ours; both are said plainly above. Vendors change pricing and ship features without notice — Linux support in particular is listed as coming soon and may have landed by the time you read this. Check the source links.

Questions people ask about Rize

Does Rize work on Linux?

Not as of 11 August 2026. Rize supports macOS 10.14.6+ and Windows 10+, with Linux listed as coming soon. DoneThat ships a Linux desktop app today, so for Linux users this is the whole comparison.

How much does Rize cost?

As of 11 August 2026, billed annually: Basic $9.99 per month, Pro $23.99, Max $39.99, Teams $29.99 per seat. Monthly billing is higher. There is a 7-day full-feature trial with no card required and no free plan. Each tier carries an AI credit allowance — 500, 1,000 and 3,000 per month respectively.

Does Rize have an MCP server?

Yes, from the Pro tier at $23.99 per month billed annually, alongside API, webhooks and Zapier. That is roughly 2.4x the entry price, so if integration is why you are considering Rize, Basic is not the plan you should be pricing. DoneThat includes MCP without an upgrade tier.

Can Rize bill clients?

No. Rize's Pro tier adds client and scheduled reports as PDF and CSV, which is reporting and export rather than invoicing — there are no billable rates or invoices. DoneThat exports CSV and is not built to bill from either. For invoicing, Timely or Clockify are the right tools.

What does Rize track exactly?

Focused-window metadata: application names, URLs and window titles, captured automatically with no timer. That gives sharp focus and context-switching metrics, but it cannot distinguish two documents with different content in the same app. DoneThat captures screen-first, so the reconstruction knows what the work was about.