SetHours - Studio Companion Suite For Ableton Live

You open Ableton every day. 

Do you know where the time actually goes?

SetHours does. It runs quietly in your system tray and automatically tracks every minute you spend in Ableton Live — per set, per day, per session. No plugin to load, no timers to start, nothing to remember. Open a Live set and it counts.

The Real Numbers. 

SetHours tracks open time (Live is running) and hands-on time (Live is the focused window and you're actually touching it) separately — so you get the real "I produced for 3 hours" instead of "Live was open all day."

What you get:

- Automatic time tracking, all time + per set — even unsaved ones

- The honest open-vs-hands-on split, with AFK detection so idle hours never inflate your numbers

- A project management Library, read straight from your .als files — tempo, track count, and the plug-ins and devices inside every set, with instant search and pin-to-top

- Playable previews of your bounces, right there in the Library

- Track the history of your track as it develops and moves through stages

- A live dashboard: today, streaks, weekly goals with pace, session history, personal bests, and a year heatmap of your grind

- Your Rhythm — an hour-by-weekday map of when you actually make music

- A focus-timer mini mode: a tiny always-on-top countdown that floats over Live

- Share Cards — your stats as a clean image, ready to post

- Goals and streaks with desktop notifications when you hit milestones

- Optional Discord status while you're in the studio (set names hidden unless you opt in)

- Five themes, JSON and CSV export, and automatic daily backups

- Self-updating — install once, new features just arrive

Private by design. Your studio data lives in one plain JSON file on your machine, NOT on our databases. 

Independent, by design too. SetHours is a one-person independent project — no company, no investors, built for the love of efficiency and to share with the world. 

**$9. Yours forever.** One-time purchase, 1 license = all v1.x updates free forever, 2 devices, no subscription, no account required.

With our licensing there are no tiers and nothing extra to unlock. But if it earns a place in your workflow and you throw in more than the minimum, that's what keeps the updates coming. 🤍

*Requirements: Windows 10/11 · Ableton Live (tested on 11 & 12). 

macOS version in development

*Ableton and Live are trademarks of Ableton AG. SetHours is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Ableton AG.*