Your wages, your hours, your take-home - this is some of the most sensitive information you own. The default for a lot of finance apps is to send it to a server and ask you to trust them with it. Clocked starts from the opposite assumption.
On the device, full stop
Everything Clocked knows about your pay is stored locally on your iPhone. There is no account, no sign-up, no cloud sync, and no third-party analytics. The only network activity is with the App Store, for purchases and the links you tap.
Private does not mean trapped
On-device data is sometimes a polite way of saying locked in. It is not here. CSV export hands you your shifts with a date range and an optional notes column, and CSV import brings history in from another tracker, auto-detecting workplaces and wages so you can map them to positions.
Because nothing depends on a server, it all works offline too. Your pay stays your business, in every sense of the word.
Why "Downloads" shouldn't be a search result
Type "downloads" into a launcher and you want your Downloads folder, not a stray one three levels deep. HyperKey resolves the obvious answer first.
One search field, two modes: designing Space-to-switch
HyperKey needed both app search and file search without turning into two separate tools. The answer was a single keystroke, not a second hotkey.
Designing a launcher that needs zero permissions
Most Mac launchers ask for Accessibility access on first launch. HyperKey never does - and that constraint shaped the whole architecture.