ActivityWatch

Erik Bjäreholt

About this app

ActivityWatch is an open-source cross-platform application that tracks how you spend time on your devices, and keeps you in control of your data.

Note about accessibility permission: the app allows users to optionally grant the accessibility permission to enable collection of detailed browsing history, by tracking URLs from supported browsers.

Please note that ActivityWatch for Android is in an early stage of development, and might have bugs.

You can report issues and view the source code on GitHub: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-android

Ratings and reviews

Its working on desktop even though I'm using elementary os and there's no system tray(I just run it on the background) back to the android app, I granted its one permission, then the issue arised, 1-2 seconds then app closes itself. hardware: Realme C3, Android 10 I would love to see a opensource screen time monitoring app. I hope u guys keep this up <3

Its promising, but it really undercounts the time I spend in many apps, especially TikTok. I spent 1.5 hours on TikTok today, but ActivityWatch only tracked 30min. I know this is wrong compared to StayFree/Pixel 6's Digital Wellbeing app because there are chunks of time where I was in TikTok but the timeline shows them as blank. The desktop version works better, I hope the Android version improves soon.

Amazing app even in its beta state. A new feature I'd recommend is having the option to have the percentage and the amount of time used in the notification bar so that I don't need to unlock my phone and open the app to check :)