ActivityWatch
Automatically track how you spend time on your devices.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 100 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.14.1 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Toggl.
At a glance
ActivityWatch quick facts
- Health score
- 87/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 19,431
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.14.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
Top alternatives to ActivityWatch
Full rankings: Toggl alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Records what you do so that you can know how you've spent your time ."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
ActivityWatch scores 87/100, #6 of 13 in Time Tracking: 100 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.14.1, 20 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 19,431 stars add 17.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
100 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.14.1 released 20 days ago
- Stars 17.2 / 20
19k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 100
- Last 90 days
- 184
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 13 tools in Time Tracking by health , between OpenHabitTracker (#5) and Kimai (#7) .
Details
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | v0.14.1 · 20 days ago |
| Stars | 19,431 |
| Open issues | 127 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | ActivityWatch/activitywatch ↗ |
ActivityWatch vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with ActivityWatch (Time Tracking), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Gauzy | 96 | 8.7k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| solidtime | 96 | 9.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| ActivityWatch (this tool) | 87 | 19k | MPL-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| Kimai | 85 | 5.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Traggo | 57 | 1.6k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| TimeTagger | 45 | 1.8k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
ActivityWatch: common questions
What does ActivityWatch replace?
Repoly lists ActivityWatch as an open-source alternative to Toggl. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where ActivityWatch stands against the others.
Is ActivityWatch still maintained?
ActivityWatch had 100 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.14.1, is from 20 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.