ActivityWatch

ActivityWatch is app for tracking how you spend time on your devices that is open source, cross-platform and extensible. Focused on privacy, it is able to collect as much (or as little) valuable life data as the user prefers in a secure manner that doesn’t compromise user privacy, and gives the user complete control of the data.

ActivityWatch can be used for many things: tracking time spent on different projects, managing bad screen habits, tracking productivity and more.

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Tracking of active applications and window titles by default
Defined categories
Browser extensions
Editor plugins
Privacy first, with data stored locally
Screen time tracker
Activity watch

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Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)

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erikbjare Posted 2020-05-14

I might be biased, but I think it's pretty good.

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Linux, Mac, Windows

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2020-01-17

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