ActivityWatch Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• Hi! I'm RavensDagger, Author of a heap of wholesome stories! I'm doing a 24 hour AMA!

  There is software that can log it for you. https://activitywatch.net/ is free and open source. - Source: Reddit / 1 day ago

• Is there a way to track the amount of time you spend in a project?

  I use ActivityWatch, which tracks your time in apps or projects by looking at the window titles. https://activitywatch.net/. - Source: Reddit / 3 days ago

• Linux software list. Discussion and advice welcome!

  Activitywatch - tracks app usage and productivity with graphical data log. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• Deleted my account after 1.5 years

  Can't help you with iOS, as its all Apple's decision/fault due to privacy concerns with the needed APIs, but I'm building a free and open source alternative (that's kinda popular) if that's your thing: https://activitywatch.net. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago

• I added visualizations of spent time to my lightweight time tracker app

  I'm building ActivityWatch, which is also privacy/local-first, but focuses on automatic tracking over manual (and SQLite instead of plaintext files). We too have implemented a hierarchical category system :). - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Program and Website Blocker

  You also may want to look at Activity Watch - https://activitywatch.net/. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

• Are there any good alternatives to WhatPulse?

  ActivityWatch. Found it using https://alternativeto.net/software/whatpulse/ because I hadn't heard of WhatPulse before. Great site for finding alternatives, since it has a bunch of filter options for OS and license types. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

• [List] Let's talk about the software you can't live without. Here is my list

  ActivityWatch - a program to track your activity, just like on phones (Free • Open Source). - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• time/screen usage tracking

  ActivityWatch. It's FOSS, cross platform and has a dashboard. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• What do you use to track your time?

  ActivityWatch is the best time tracker I have ever tried. https://activitywatch.net/. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• What do you use to track your time?

  I track the time I spend on my computer with https://activitywatch.net/. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Granular app tracking on iOS/iPadOS?

  I'm building ActivityWatch, and we're supporting basically every OS, except iOS. I've even been in contact with well-funded researchers, who are very frustratingly facing the same issue. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Any good alternatives to digital wellbeing app?

  UsageDirect, you can find on F-droid. Activity watch, you can find on play store. In both you cannot choose how much time is spent in each app. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Automatic time tracking tools

  There is Activitywatch which is fully automatic, and open source. - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• Searchable computer activity recording / 'second memory' / 'smartpen for your screen'

  The nearest thing I have found is ActivityWatch, but that's more for time tracking as it doesn't capture screenshots or audio (system or mic). - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago

• Self hosted toggl

  May not be what you're looking for, but I use ActivityWatch myself. - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago

• Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?

  If it’s just the metadata that you want, you can use activity watcher [1]. They have a browser plug-in. [1] https://activitywatch.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Does PureOS have something similar to Screen Time and Focus on iOS?

  Check out ActivityWatch. You have to install it manually from a zip file. I haven't tried it, but others say it works well in Linux. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Non-invasive screen time app (android, mac, windows) that exports data?

  I am trying to find apps for my android phone, macbook, and windows desktop that record screen time and let me export the data so I can analyze it myself. MacBook and Android have screen time apps built in but you can not export the data. (Side-note: why wouldn't they want me to analyze my own data?) Third party apps I have found are all pretty invasive. So far the best I can find, for MacBook, is ActivityWatch... - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Here is a wiki for QS. Especially useful for beginners wanting to choose apps.

  I'm super happy to see ActivityWatch listed under time tracking! (I'm the founder/maintainer). - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• NYT Reporter - Does anyone have experience with employee productivity monitoring technology?

  I manage a staff of people and I have proposed my people recently to use a tool like ActivityWatch, they are not against it, read on. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago