ActivityWatch Cross-Platform Automated Time Tracker and Productivity Analyzer

ActivityWatch is a privacy-first, open-source automated time tracker that records application usage, browser activity, and AFK status across Windows, macOS, and Linux. With 16k+ GitHub stars, it provides detailed productivity analytics without sending data to external servers.

Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• aw-server (Python) - The current default implementation
• Client libraries: Language-specific libraries like aw-client (Python), aw-client-js, and aw-client-rust that wrap REST endpoints for programmatic access

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Installation & Usage

• Downloads are available on the releases page.

• For instructions on how to get started, please see the guide in the documentation.

• Source: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/HEAD/README.md

Source

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