Perhaps not the most beautiful program but I always end up coming back to it since it does the job and the interface is actually quite clever. Competing solutions almost always have way too many bells and whistles, especially all kinds of crap involving bigger teams, etc.

This program has a very nice price, and you get what you pay for. Its quality is absolutely dismal.

I checked the trial version before purchasing it, and I got a very misleading positive impression. The interface seems nice and intuitive, and there are many features intended to keep track of your time usage in different ways. However, the trial version only provides basic functionality. In order to track your time efficiently you need to automate repetitive tasks, and the automation features (like automatic tagging) are only available in the full version. When you purchase the full featured version and start using the automation features ManicTime drops its beautiful princess mask and reveals itself as the ugly nine headed monster it really is.

The documentation is absolutely chaotic. Most of it is obsolete, doesn’t make sense or both things at the same time. It looks like it was written by the same Slovenian guys who created the program. Their grasp of English is very basic, their writing has the quality and the huge amount of mistakes you’d expect from a lazy high school student of English as a second language (which is probably what the writer was at the peak of his writing abilities). That’s not the only problem, though, I suspect the writer can’t write properly in his own language either. Even if you manage to deal with all the grammar and spelling weirdness, you get a text that doesn’t even tell you how to use the program, but rather mentions in very confusing terms some of its features, which seem to be randomly selected.

The program is full of bugs. They create versions intended to fix those bugs and add new features regularly, but, after almost a year of use, my experience is that every new version introduces more bugs than it fixes. And it takes them months to fix just the most obvious and annoying bugs. Some examples: • Some reports report nothing at all, like the usage details in the timesheet. • About six months ago they introduced a screenshots feature. The idea is good, but the feature is full of bugs, from errors in the display to straight away crashes. Last month they released a fix for this. The result is that now the screenshots screen just doesn’t display any screenshots at all. • There is a feature to remind you to log your time when you’re away from your computer for a while. Again, great feature… if it worked. Half of the time, the reminder to log your away time just pops up randomly, regardless of whether you’ve been away from the computer or not.

The list goes on, but you get the picture. The bottom line: A program that is intended to improve your productivity, but will actually decrease it.

It's a great app. I've used quite a few of these, and this is one of the most robust apps for tracking your computer usage. Definitely the most robust and the auto tag works, but I would also recommend Time Studio which looks quite similar, but has AI for autotagging which works decent and cloud sync. It's also free but sometimes has some bugs.

Big fan. I use it in my workplace. I haven't found a better activity tracker.

Perfectly fluent and enjoyable for offline W10. Free version is enough and fast for typical report of tracking used window names over multiple months. Supports web page tracking nicely.

Counterintuitive, poor interface, hard to use. Navigation is not good.

No browser plugins for windows needed. Quite intuitive.