Free RescueTime Alternatives

ActivityWatch

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

• 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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Automatic like RescueTime, but open source and extendable, with full and exclusive user control of data. Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux 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 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android

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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 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free 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 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Linux

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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

Open source plugins for automatic programming metrics.

Free Open Source 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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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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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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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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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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TrackYourTime

Cross-platform automated time tracker.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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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

12 Like

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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Time Recording

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

Freemium Android

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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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Moment

Track how much you and your family use your iPhone and iPad each day, automatically • Set daily limits on it and find a balance for the screens in your life Now on the Apple Watch • Quickly see how long you and your family have used your phone today. - You'll see a colorful icon for each one of your family members on your glance. Green means well under their daily limit, yellow means getting close, and red screams they went overboard.

Freemium $ $ $ iPhone iPad Apple Watch

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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

apps tracker

Track your computer usage apps tracker automatically records all the applications you have used and for how long. Easy time visualization Detailed reports based on your computer usage. Limits Worried you are using some application too much, set a daily or weekly limit for it and be notified when the limit has passed. Categories Group multiple apps into a category and get a combined usage time.

Free Windows

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Timesheet - Time Tracker

Timesheet allows you the recording of your work with a simple push of a button. You can easily add breaks and create notes for a running task. Clear overviews and statistics will show the current work, project details and more information.

Free Android Android Tablet

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TrackingTime

TrackingTime is a collaborative time tracking app that helps companies manage their projects, track working times and measure productivity. Get started for free. Your Time Counts! The core of the app is a simple yet powerful task manager that allows you to stay organized while effortlessly keeping track of your working hours in real time.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome

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Baralga

Baralga keeps track of the time you spent working on different projects. You can record the time spent on a project or you can manually enter and edit activities. This way you can easily memorize when and how long you have been working on each single project. Baralga is a simple and lightweight time tracking solution for the freelancers and consultants. Baralga is for everybody who can hardly remember how much time s(he) spent working on each single project.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Java Mobile

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WorkTrail

WorkTrail allows you to keep track of your work in real time. Easily manage your projects and tasks, log your work and don't worry about interruptions or sudden tasks. Now also available for iPhone and Android. For developers WorkTrail provides a developer API which makes it easy to integrate with other applications.

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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Productive Peach

Productive Peach is a freeware cross-platform desktop application which automatically takes screenshots of your desktop to help track your computer usage. It’s great for tracking productivity and billing! With Productive Peach you always have proof that the amount of hours billed are the actual amount of hours worked — and if you’re stretching the truth a bit you know that as well. So you can essentially bill every single hour no matter what.

Free Mac Windows Linux

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