Open Source Screen Time AlternativesTime Tracking & Anti Procrastination Tools like Screen Time

The best open source alternative to Screen Time is ActivityWatch. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Screen Time and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Screen Time are TimeScribe, LeechBlock, Screen Time for Android and Furtherance.

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  1. ActivityWatch icon
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    Open-source, cross-platform app tracks time on devices, providing productivity insights, anti-procrastination tools, and Pomodoro timers in a privacy-focused, no third-party data system, customizable by user extensions, making it a versatile alternative to RescueTime and ManicTime.

    121 ActivityWatch alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Rust
    • Python
    • Chromium
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  2. TimeScribe icon
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    TimeScribe lets you effortlessly start, stop, and pause your work time with just a click, ensuring a straightforward time tracking experience. The app provides an intuitive dashboard to monitor your daily activities, including breaks, and allows you to customize your weekly work...

    98 TimeScribe alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. LeechBlock icon
     67 likes

    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.

    141 LeechBlock alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  4. Furtherance icon
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    Furtherance is a time tracking app. It allows you to track time spent on different activities without worrying about your data being captured and sold.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
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  5. SimplyTrack icon
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    A simple, elegant macOS productivity tracking app that helps you monitor your application and website usage patterns.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  6.  1 like

    TrackFlow watches what you actually work on — apps, active windows, VPN sessions, VoiSpeed calls, Excel files, Claude Code sessions, periodic screenshots — and turns it into a daily timeline, at-a-glance Home modules, and per-client projects with their own stopwatch.

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    • Windows
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  7. ProcrastiScan icon
     2 likes

    Evaluates tab content meaning for task relevance, calculates live focus scores, and activates interventions like tab blocking, chatbot assistance, nudging, and procrastination lists. Features a dashboard to review browsing focus trends and distraction history.

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    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  8. Produchive icon
     2 likes

    An offline productivity app monitoring your activity, using open source LLMs to judge the productivity of the day for the target YOU have set. Your data is stored in your system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. CacheGuard Gateway is a free, open-source network security appliance for startups, growing businesses, and SMEs/SMBs that need enterprise-grade protection without the complexity or cost.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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  10. usageDirect icon
     4 likes

    – Display reliable app usage statistics from up to ten days before the app was installed

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  11. DansGuardian icon
     7 likes

    DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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