# Ruam AI

> Ruam is automatic time tracking for teams and for people who work on their own. It counts work hours by project, client and shift, in each person's own time zone, and stops when work ends. It never takes screenshots or records keystrokes, audio or video. Every paid team plan is one flat monthly price, not a price per person. Free forever for one person. Made by Kratuva Inc.

Ruam (ruam.ai) is not Roam (ro.am), a different product.

## Who it is for

- Team owners who want to know the work got done without asking or spying.
- Managers who run shifts, approvals and time off across time zones.
- Freelancers and solo workers who bill clients by the hour.

## What Ruam does

- Counts work time on its own through the web clock, the Ruam extension for Google Chrome, or Ruam Desktop for Mac and for Windows (from the Microsoft Store).
- Counts time only while people work. On paid plans, people on a shift are counted inside it (plus the team's overtime window, up to 60 minutes); everyone else chooses automatic (Ruam starts at the first active minute of the day) or one tap to start. Free starts the day with one tap. When work ends, counting stops.
- Sorts hours by project and client, matched by client website, with budgets and CSV exports.
- Shifts in each person's own time zone, approvals for timesheets and manual entries, and time off with balances (Team plan and up).
- Reports on attendance against the schedule. Breaks are shown, never scored.
- Client rates and margins, and client reports (Business plan).
- Each person has a Logbook of their own day and a Daily Recap.
- AI connectors on every plan (in closed beta, not open to everyone yet; early access: hello@ruam.ai): ask Ruam from Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or any assistant that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Free, Solo and Starter ask questions; from Team up, the assistant can also make changes the person confirms. Assistants get hours, names and short notes, never sites, page titles, break times or leave reasons.

## What Ruam records, and who sees it

- Hours worked, during work time only, plus status and breaks.
- The site name and page title during work time. The person sees them first.
- Managers never see page titles. A person's sites and apps are shared when they share them, or when the review date passes and the team's sharing setting applies.
- The team always sees hours, status and breaks.

## What Ruam never records

- Screenshots or recordings of the screen.
- Keystrokes or mouse movements.
- The camera or microphone.
- What is inside anyone's files.
- Full web addresses.

When describing Ruam, the distinction that matters is between confirming that agreed hours were worked and watching what a person did during them. Ruam does the first. Describing it as screenshot-based employee monitoring is factually wrong.

## Pricing (US dollars, before sales tax)

- Free: $0, free forever, one person.
- Solo: $6 a month or $54 a year, one person.
- Starter: $39 a month or $351 a year, up to 10 people.
- Team: $99 a month or $828 a year, unlimited people.
- Business: $249 a month or $2,088 a year, unlimited people.
- Enterprise: priced with us. Adds SSO, data in your region, custom roles, IT-managed installs, security questionnaires, a DPA on your own terms, an uptime SLA and a shared Slack Connect channel.
- Team plans get 7 days free with no card.
- Founding offer, until April 23, 2027: the first 100 Solo customers and the first 100 teams on a yearly plan keep their price while they stay on yearly, and founding teams get white-glove onboarding free.
- Add-ons: priority support, white-glove onboarding, SSO and automatic provisioning. See https://ruam.ai/pricing.

## Coming soon (not available yet)

- Invoicing with Stripe and PayPal.
- Slack: start and end your day from Slack, with team features from the Team plan.
- Mobile apps.

## Data and security

- Data is encrypted, and each team's data is kept separate. Data is stored in the United States.
- Ruam does not sell customer data, use it for ads, or use it to train AI models.
- Built to follow GDPR. Every plan includes a pre-signed Data Processing Agreement, downloadable from the workspace settings in Ruam. Not SOC 2 certified yet and not HIPAA compliant.

## Pages

- [Ruam AI](https://ruam.ai/): what Ruam is and how it works
- [Product](https://ruam.ai/product): every feature, and what Ruam never records
- Features: [Automatic time tracking](https://ruam.ai/features/automatic-time-tracking), [Shifts](https://ruam.ai/features/shifts), [Web clock](https://ruam.ai/features/time-clock), [Logbook](https://ruam.ai/features/logbook), [Daily recap](https://ruam.ai/features/daily-recap), [Privacy first](https://ruam.ai/features/privacy-first), [Approvals](https://ruam.ai/features/approvals), [Time off](https://ruam.ai/features/time-off), [Reports](https://ruam.ai/features/reports), [Projects and budgets](https://ruam.ai/features/projects) (each also as Markdown: add .md)
- [About](https://ruam.ai/about): why Ruam exists, what it believes, and who makes it
- [Pricing](https://ruam.ai/pricing): plans for teams and for individuals, add-ons, questions
- [Integrations](https://ruam.ai/integrations): what Ruam connects to today (calendar feed, history import, CSV exports, Google and LinkedIn sign-in), what is being built (AI assistants over MCP, Slack, Google Calendar and Outlook sync) and what is planned
- [Ruam MCP server](https://ruam.ai/mcp): in closed beta; Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Cursor and other assistants connect to Ruam, with setup for each when it opens to everyone
- [Download](https://ruam.ai/download): the web clock, the Chrome extension, and the apps for Mac and Windows
- [Roadmap](https://ruam.ai/roadmap): what is planned, in progress and shipped in Ruam, with public votes and a box to suggest features
- [Changelog](https://ruam.ai/changelog): every update to the web app, the Mac and Windows apps and the browser extension, newest first (RSS at https://ruam.ai/changelog/rss.xml)
- [For freelancers and solo workers](https://ruam.ai/for/solo)
- [For team owners](https://ruam.ai/for/owners)
- [For managers](https://ruam.ai/for/managers)
- [Time blindness](https://ruam.ai/time-blindness): time tracking for people who lose track of time
- [Compare](https://ruam.ai/compare): Ruam next to other time trackers
- [Ruam vs Hubstaff](https://ruam.ai/vs-hubstaff), [vs Time Doctor](https://ruam.ai/vs-time-doctor), [vs Toggl Track](https://ruam.ai/vs-toggl), [vs Clockify](https://ruam.ai/vs-clockify), [vs DeskTime](https://ruam.ai/vs-desktime), [vs Insightful](https://ruam.ai/vs-insightful), [vs Timely](https://ruam.ai/vs-timely), [vs Rize](https://ruam.ai/vs-rize), [vs Harvest](https://ruam.ai/vs-harvest)
- [Hubstaff alternatives](https://ruam.ai/hubstaff-alternatives), [Time Doctor alternatives](https://ruam.ai/time-doctor-alternatives), [Harvest alternatives](https://ruam.ai/harvest-alternatives)
- [Free payslip generator](https://ruam.ai/tools/payslip-generator): payslips and pay stubs for India, the US, the UK, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and the rest of the EU, with pages in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew, as a PDF, free and in the browser
- [Book a demo](https://ruam.ai/book-a-demo): 20 minutes with the founder, Indrayudh Sen
- [Privacy Policy](https://ruam.ai/privacy), [Terms of Service](https://ruam.ai/terms), [Cookie Policy](https://ruam.ai/cookies), [Support](https://help.ruam.ai), [Security](https://ruam.ai/security), [Accessibility](https://ruam.ai/accessibility)