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ActivityWatch
By ActivityWatch (open-source community project)
Category: time-productivity
Pricing: open-source-free
Free plan: Available
Free-plan limits: Fully free, open-source (MPL-2.0) and self-hosted with no feature limits, ads, or account requirement; all tracking data stays on-device. An optional paid 'ActivityWatch Pro' subscription (from roughly $5/month, per the site) supports development and may add extra features.
Best for: Privacy-conscious users who want fully local, open-source automatic time tracking with no cloud upload of activity data.
Checked when listed: against the vendor's own page
Automated re-check: 10/6/2026, 9:00:41 AM
Official resources
Links to ActivityWatch (open-source community project)'s own pages. Each one was checked before it was listed here.
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