Dayflow
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Mac AppFreemacOS
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Web App
Wakapi
See where your coding time goes with private, self-hosted stats.
Built with love by Shushant Lakhyani. Building bestproductivityresources.com
What is Wakapi?
Wakapi is a free, open-source and self-hosted backend for tracking how you spend time coding. It works with the existing WakaTime editor plugins and shows dashboards of your time by project, language, editor and machine, with weekly email reports and badges you can share.
Third-party open-source projects. We are not affiliated with their authors; repositories are provided as-is by their maintainers. Review each project's license, code and security before installing. See our Disclaimer.
Pros
- Automatic tracking from your editor
- Keeps coding data private
- Free and open source
Cons
- Only tracks time spent coding
- Self-hosting needs some setup
Who should use Wakapi
Developers who want to understand and improve how they spend their coding hours.
Who may not need it
Anyone who does not write code.
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