The confetti at 8 hours: how Clockflux celebrates your target

Themes: App feature6 November 2026·3 min read·By David Lawrence

You tap check out at the end of the day and, now and then, a card pops up in the middle of the screen with a burst of confetti behind it. Then it fades away after a few seconds. If you've wondered what triggers it, or why it doesn't happen every day, here's how it works.

What sets it off

A celebration appears when you check out, and the session you've just closed takes you across one of two lines.

The daily target. Your hours for the day go from below your daily target to at or above it. The target is 8 hours unless you've set your own, which Clockflux Pro lets you do under Settings → Daily target. You get a 🎯 card that says "Daily goal smashed!" and tells you how many hours you've hit, with one burst of confetti. The number follows your target, so someone on a 6-hour day sees 6.

The weekly target. Your hours for the week go from below the week's target to at or above it. You get a 🏆 card that says "Weekly target reached!", with two bursts of confetti, one from each side of the screen.

The weekly target is prorated. It's 8 hours for every working day, minus your days off: a full day off takes 8 hours off the target and a half day takes 4. A week with a public holiday in it has a 32-hour target, and the card fires when you reach 32.

If the same check-out crosses both lines, you get the weekly celebration and the daily one stays quiet.

What doesn't set it off

• Being checked in. The timer can run past 8 hours and nothing happens. The celebration comes when you check out. In Pro, switching to another task counts too, because it closes the running session.
• Being a few minutes short. Clockflux compares the exact minutes. Checking out at 7:56 doesn't count as 8 hours, and there's no confetti until you've really reached it.
• Carrying on afterwards. The celebration is for crossing the line. If you checked out at 8:10 and then worked another hour after dinner, the second check-out is above the target already, so it stays quiet.
• A lunch break in the middle. Sessions add up through the day. If you check out for lunch at 12:00 with 4 hours done and back in again, the afternoon check-out that brings the total to 8 is the one that celebrates.

The card stays for about three seconds, and your taps go through it to the app underneath, so it never gets in the way. There's no setting to turn it off.

Why it stops at the target

The celebration marks the moment you reach a target you set. After that there are no more cards and no more confetti, however many hours you add. Overtime shows up where it's counted: in your running balance and on the Health tab, which tells you when too much of it has become a pattern.

For a time tracker, that seems the right way round. Reaching the end of your planned day deserves a small moment. Working past it is something to keep an eye on, as we've written about evenings and counting your hours as self-care.

Other places you'll see progress

The celebration is the end of a longer trail. During the day the Track tab shows how far you are towards your daily target, and during the week it compares your hours with the target for the working days that have passed, so a week you're on track for shows in green. The tracking docs cover all of it, including how days off change the weekly target.

You'll also see one more burst of confetti on the last step of the setup wizard.