RescueTime Alternatives and Similar Software

ActivityWatch

Log what you do on your computer. Simple (yet powerful), extensible, no third parties.

• Automatic like RescueTime, but open source and extendable, with full and exclusive user control of data. Guest • Dec 2017 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• There's automatic logging, just like in Recuetime. But unlike Rescuetime, your data is yours as the app is 100% open source, so IMO it is better suited for most corporate privacy policies and hence better for GDPR complience. Rescuetime is fine if you are a home user and don't care about privacy, but due to EU privacy law, it is not suited for the corporate environment in the EU. Guest • Aug 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Chrome ... Python Chromium Firefox

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ManicTime

Track your computer usage and use collected data to accurately tag time. Auto tracking of computer usage (8 languages), during a day average user can switch back and forth between applications more than a 1000 times, which means ManicTime gathers a lot of data. Local storage, powerful statistics: see which applications you use the most or on which web sites you spend the most time.

• It works really well, and allows viewing the timeline in an interactive, visual way, and in even greater detail than RescueTime. waldir • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• You have to host your own server in order to sync data across devices. Anon_J • Dec 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android

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Project Hamster

Project Hamster is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.

• Project Hamster is for Linux. RescueTime is for PC and MAC CurrentWaretech • Jul 2018 • 0 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Linux

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SaveMyTime

SaveMyTime logs online and offline activities. It takes advantage of nasty habit humans have – we unlock our phones about 120 times a day, every few minutes. SaveMyTime replaces standard lock screen and ask “What have you been doing since you last checked your phone?”, then it takes the input, analyzes and gives insights how you spend time.

• Seemless time recording. Finally something that works. Excellent reporting. I get the insights I always wanted. muka • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• BrowseReporter is the best alternative to RescueTime Guest • Jun 2018 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Android

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Kimai

Kimai is a free open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action … It’s simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s web browser based interface it runs cross-platform. Likewise you can install it as a web service or as a single-user program on your local workstation.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

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WakaTime

Analytics for programmers using open-source text editor plugins. The service itself is not open source, only the plugins.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Komodo IDE Xcode ... Visual Studio Code IntelliJ IDEA Vim Notepad++ Pycharm Sublime Text TextMate RubyMine GNU Emacs PyCharm Community Edition Atom Brackets Komodo Edit

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ProcrastiTracker

ProcrastriTracker is a time tracking tool that automatically tracks what applications and documents you use, and allows you to view statistics on your usage in great detail. It is written to be small and non-intrusive. It is useful for: - Increasing your productivity: seeing long term stats on what really is costing you the most time can help shift priorities to work more optimally.

• This is the only listed alternative that has actually a full feature set Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows

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BrowseReporter

BrowseReporter is a powerful employee monitoring tool that allows you to monitor the Internet activity of your employees or students. BrowseReporter captures the URLs of every visited web site. It includes a powerful reporting utility for generating tabular and graphical reports. URLS deemed to be a threat to the organization can readily be identified from the reports. In addition, unproductive employee spending too much company time browsing the Internet can readily be isolated.

• It can track Internet activities and run reports to understand productivity marykawasaki • Jul 2015 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Windows

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StayFocusd

StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.

Free Web Chrome

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Qbserve

Qbserve provides everything you need for seamless time tracking of your work hours or freelance projects: – automatic productivity tracking for websites and apps – automatic project tracking based on opened documents and web pages – invoice generation – real-time performance feedback and notifications – various reports and timesheets – scheduled data export – Slack team and Skype chat tracking – many flexible settings to fit your needs There is no subscription and all the tracked...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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LeechBlock

LeechBlock is a simple free productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them. You can specify up to six sets of sites to block, with different times and days for each set. You can block sites within fixed time periods (e.g., between 9am and 5pm), after a time limit (e.g., 10 minutes in every hour), or with a combination of time periods and time limit (e.g.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Firefox

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Harvest

Let’s get to work. Spend less time tracking and more time doing. Love your job. Like your timesheets. Whether it’s from the web, your smartphone or another application, it’s never been so easy to track time. With a simple, intuitive interface, getting you and your team on board is fast and easy. See today. Plan for tomorrow. Harvest’s powerful reporting gives you real-time access to keep your projects on time and on budget.

Freemium Mac Web Android iPhone

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TrackYourTime

Cross-platform automated time tracker.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Tick

Track Time. Hit Budgets. It's That Simple. Straightforward time tracking software to help your team run more profitable projects. Time is your Inventory In the service industry, hours are your inventory. Lose track of your time and it spoils. Hit your budgets and you move more inventory. Tick tracks your time against your budgets, giving you the best opportunity to remain profitable.

Commercial Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Apple Watch

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TopTracker

TopTracker enables team leads and individuals to effortlessly track progress with transparent and intuitive reports.

Free Mac Windows Linux Web

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Timing

Timing observes how you use your Mac and categorizes your activities. You see how you spent your time and how productive you were, and the timeline shows exactly when you worked. It even automatically recognizes blocks of time that belong together! Need to enter time manually? Timing supports that, too — with the added benefit of tracking when your productivity is highest. And if you need to bill clients or create timesheets, Timing lets you generate great reports.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac

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TwentyFive

HTML5 time tracking web app focused on speed and simplicity that encourages you to follow the Pomodoro Technique.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

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DeskTime

DeskTime is a real-time automatic time tracking software that tracks and analyzes your productivity by sorting the different applications that you or our employees use into the categories “productive”, “unproductive” or “neutral”. It runs quietly and unobtrusively in the background, requiring no user input. At DeskTime, were committed to accountability, transparency, and fairness.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone

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ARBTT

ARBTT, the Automatic Rule-Base Time Tracker, is a window logger that runs in background and logs for all opened windows: * Time * Focused Window * Window Title * Program

Free Open Source Linux

Bric

Bric helps creative agencies increase employee utilization through more accurate project planning and time tracking. We do this with machine learning. Bric automatically analyzes your timesheets to automatically recommend more accurate project plans — all with a click of a button. This helps you overcome the project planning fallacy, spend less time managing time, and get back to the work you love.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS ... Self-Hosted

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WatchMe

WatchMe is a simple timer program that can be used to time a number of different tasks or events together or indepenedently of each other. You can easily name each timer and track information about what you are timing - a great solution for those who need to track their time for billing, timesheets and more. Have multiple timers running at the same time.

Free Windows

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Grindstone

Grindstone is a desktop application, produced by Epiforge Software, that allows users to create and organize tasks and to track time. It includes a range of other features that supplement this primary functionality. The software is currently offered as a free download for Microsoft Windows users. Epiforge Software has announced plans to release Grindstone on Mac OS, and a compliment to the software which would allow pooling data from multiple users.

Free Windows

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Lifelog

Lifelog is the clever activity tracker app for Android that keeps track of what matters to you – like how many steps you take – without needing a SmartBand. You can also set personal health and fitness goals and then follow your progress.

Free Android Android Wear

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Time Recording

Timesheet manager - easy to use, highly adaptive Manage your timesheet.

Freemium Android

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WebWork Time Tracker

WebWork Time Tracker provides the easiest way to understand the productivity of work, calculate working time and time spent on each task. All this information automatically generated and transferred into accurate reports in the form of screenshots, statistical data, graphs or online reports in user's web account. Users can generate invoices and send them to their clients or partners as a proof of work. WebWork tracker is suitable for teams of any type and size.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad

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