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24 alternatives to Personal Time Tracking with Git

I've been trying to figure out how long feature development takes, for years. I'm not a fan of (a priori) estimations of work, which just seem like the wrong measure. I think I've got a better way. Genuinely interested if some git gurus can improve this. Particularly around the pre-push hook, which is dependent on retained squash commit text. Or if there's an entirely better way to achieve the same thing.

Personal Time Tracking with Git is a tool that measures how long feature development actually takes by analyzing Git commit history, rather than relying on upfront time estimates. It works through a pre-push hook that… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Generate timesheets from GitHub code history. Free

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've been building Dayflow, a macOS app that automatically tracks what you're actually working on (not just which apps you have open). Here's what it does: - It creates a semantic timeline of your day; - It does it by understanding the content on your screen (with local or cloud VLMs); - This allows you to see exactly where your time went without any manual logging. Traditional time trackers tell you "3 hours in Chrome" which is not very helpful. Dayflow actually understands if you're reading documentation, debugging code, or scrolling HN. Instead of "Chrome: 3 hours", you get…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    simple terminal UI for git commands. Contribute to jesseduffield/lazygit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've always wanted a better way to explore the authorship data embedded in a Git commit log. I'm having fun building a CLI tool to do this. It's a bit like the "Contributors" tab on Github that shows you how many commits each contributor has made but much faster and with many more options. If you get a chance to try it out, please let me know. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions. Thank you!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Preceden is a free online timeline maker. Generate a timeline with AI or build one from scratch for project plans, school assignments, fiction, and more.

    2022 · preceden.com · its alternatives →

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    2011 · hulkort.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git - git-bug/git-bug

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository. - git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    After some feedback I spent some time re-reading through the git docs, and refactored to add time tracking data into the commit message directly. It's simpler than using tags. thanks.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An Interactive History of the Git Distributed Version Control System

    2021 · git-history.jpalmer.dev · its alternatives →

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    for software developers, teams, and open-source communities

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Decentralized Issue Tracking for git. Contribute to git-dit/git-dit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I described Git scraping last year: a technique for writing scrapers where you periodically snapshot a source of data to a Git repository in order to record changes to that …

    2021 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →

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    RankDevs▲197

    Track, analyse and increase your programming activity

    2025 · rankdevs.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple, seamless, lightweight time tracking for Git - git-time-metric/gtm

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated time tracking for Git repositories. [DEPRECATED] - timeglass/glass

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Timet▲81

    Time tracking made simple

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    Hi HN! I made this app out of necessity: sometimes I'll troll over my laptop all day without moving until lunch break or work is done. No good. So I made git hook to block my git commits if I didn't do some calisthenics. Later, after I noticed it was useful, I decided to open it up for others. It works like this: - Download the iOS or Android app - Install the .git hook - Do daily pushups with the app or else your hooks will fail Pushup form is validated via ARKit/MLKit and the accelerometer and I only use github for authentication. If you find it useful, let me know! Justin

    2025 · gitpushups.com · its alternatives →

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    Cut cycle time ~60% by automating the code-review process

    2023 · linearb.io · its alternatives →

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    Seamless time tracking for all your Git projects

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Internet Git's time machine

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    GitPro▲7

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