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WakaTime
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WakaTime

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What is WakaTime?

Quantify your coding - open source plugins for automatic time tracking & insights into your programming.

WakaTime is a tool in the Analytics category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Fully automatic, with reports via emailFind the time you spend per feature/commitSee time spent in each languageBranch-level statsFile-level statsSlack integration for team collaboration

WakaTime Pros & Cons

Pros of WakaTime

  • ✓Automatic time tracking per project
  • ✓It's a great way to manage my time
  • ✓Time log next to each commit on GitHub
  • ✓Big choice of supported IDEs
  • ✓Productivity
  • ✓Vim integration
  • ✓Eclipse integration

Cons of WakaTime

  • ✗Slow down the IDE

WakaTime Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to WakaTime?

Scope

Scope

It helps software managers and engineers to better understand the workflow of the code processes to identify bottlenecks, reduce technical debt, compare trends and become more productive.

Haystack

Haystack

Haystack analyzes your GitHub data on a team level, giving you “NorthStar” metrics like cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and more to help you improve your teams delivery.

Codealike

Codealike

Codealike is a service that tracks your activity while you code normally. Once you've installed and signed in in your preferred IDE (Visual Studio, Eclipse or Chrome), the plugin will track, process and send the data to our servers so you can visualize it anytime you want to learn how you work and how to improve through trustworthy data.

Swarmia

Swarmia

It is an engineering productivity software. It gives CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and engineers visibility over their work, insights to remove any blockers, and, therefore, necessary tools to ship code faster and accelerate the engineering organization without compromising culture or quality.

Waydev

Waydev

It is a new data-driven way to truly understand your engineers.It analyzes your codebase from Github, Gitlab, Azure DevOps & Bitbucket to help you bring out the best in your engineers work.

Velocity by Code Climate

Velocity by Code Climate

It turns data from commits and pull requests into the insights you need to make lasting improvements to your team’s productivity. Use it to find and work through every bottleneck to keep processes lean as you grow. Maintain a high-performing engineering team with concrete and objective Velocity metrics.

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WakaTime Integrations

Codiad, Light Table, Scala IDE, UltraEdit, Zend and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with WakaTime. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with WakaTime.

Codiad
Codiad
Light Table
Light Table
Scala IDE
Scala IDE
UltraEdit
UltraEdit
Zend
Zend
GitHub
GitHub
Slack
Slack
Eclipse
Eclipse
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Vim
Vim
GitLab
GitLab
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA
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Developers
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WakaTime Discussions

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frido
frido

Mar 23, 2019

Needs adviceonWakaTimeWakaTimeVisual Studio CodeVisual Studio CodeIntelliJ IDEAIntelliJ IDEA

I use WakaTime because it provides interesting information about my coding time. I have plugin for Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA (my favourite IDEs). Wakatime uses fancy graphs to vizualize time spending on project. With Wakatime I can improve my productivity by focusing on right project.

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Ben Boarder
Ben Boarder

Developer at Reactor Digital

Sep 12, 2015

Needs adviceonWakaTimeWakaTime

Time tracking for that, spent while working across multiple components and using multiple languages. WakaTime

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DavidHarrison
DavidHarrison

Apr 6, 2015

Needs adviceonWakaTimeWakaTime

WakaTime allows us to track how much time is spent developing features. WakaTime

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