Tempo is a Mac menu bar app that tracks your work sessions and logs them directly to Google Calendar. No manual calendar entry. No spreadsheets. You start a timer, work, stop — and Tempo handles the rest.

Getting Started

When you open Tempo for the first time, you'll see a brief onboarding screen.

Step 1 — Enter your email Type the Google account email you want to connect to. This is only used to identify your account.

Step 2 — Authorize Google Calendar Tempo will open your browser and ask for permission to create calendar events. It only requests write access to calendar events — nothing else is read.

Once connected, the widget opens and you're ready to track.

The Widget - How to use

Tempo lives in your menu bar. Click the tray icon to open the widget. The widget can be dragged to any position on screen by clicking and dragging on the title bar area.

1. Name your session. Click the title input and type a name, e.g. "Deep work", "Design sprint", "Client call".
2. Pick a color. Click any of the 11 color dots. The selected dot shows a green ring. This color appears on the Google Calendar event.
3. Click Start. The timer begins. The session title locks and the timer moves to the Mac menu bar. Buttons switch to Done, Adjust, and Delete.
4. Work. The menu bar shows your session name and live elapsed time while the session runs.
5. Click Done when finished. The timer stops and the review panel opens.
6. Click Adjust if you want to edit your time. Opens a modal to manually set start and end time before logging to your calendar.

Logging a Past Event

You don't need to run the timer to log something to your calendar.

Click Log an event (next to the Start button on the idle screen). The review panel opens immediately with a default window of the past hour. Adjust the start and end times to match what you actually did, fill in a name and color, then log it.