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Where Nova is strong

Nova keeps the ledger: a target for each weekday, overtime, vacation, today, the week, the projects. Tyme can still count the minutes. Those hours sit in the same app as the calendar, the mail, the tasks, the meetings, health, and the archive.

Where the other goes further

Tyme is the better fit when the job is the timer itself. Nova does not replace that clock.

Side by side

• Where it sits

  Nova On the desk, next to the calendar.

  Tyme A timer for the hours you worked.

• Before a write

  Nova The ledger is on the Mac. A card before calendar or mail changes.

  Tyme You start and stop the timer.

• The model

  Nova A key you bring, or a local model. The hours stay on the Mac.

  Tyme The minutes Tyme counted.

• The screen

  Nova On request, the front window.

  Tyme The timer.

• Which computers

  Nova Apple Silicon.

  Tyme Tyme.

• In one app

  Nova Hours, next to calendar, mail, tasks, meetings, health, and the archive.

  Tyme The timer. The rest of the desk stays in other apps.

October 2026. The other product can change.