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24 alternatives to WakaTime Extension for Visual Studio Code
Quantify your coding in Visual Studio Code
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. WakaTime Extension for Visual Studio Code launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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WakaTime▲110Metrics & automatic time tracking for programmers
2014 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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Most used languages, IDEs, and stats of developers in 2023
2024 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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The most used languages, editors, and code stats of 2020
2021 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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Open source IDE plugins for programmers.
2015 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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Most used languages, editors and stats of developers in 2021
2022 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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Automate your daily coding goal
2020 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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See how long each commit takes, right inside Slack
2015 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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Code Time▲135VS Code extension for automatic programming metrics
2019 · antenna.dev · its alternatives →
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Chronova▲5WakaTime-compatible coding analytics with real-time insights
May 2026 · chronova.dev · its alternatives →
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Most used languages, editors and stats of developers in 2022
2023 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons
May 2026 · kilo.ai · its alternatives →
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An extension for VS Code that visualizes data during debugging. - vscode-debug-visualizer/extension at master · hediet/vscode-debug-visualizer
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A VS Code extension to track your 100 Days of Code progress.
2020 · antenna.dev · its alternatives →
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Linitime▲62Mobile Wakatime client to track your coding activity
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist self-hosted time tracking tool for developers
2021 · wakapi.dev · its alternatives →
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Instant time complexity, explanation, and documentation
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Generate PDF invoices from your code stats
2023 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →
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VSCode Notion▲292Notion, right inside your favorite code editor
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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I built an open source alternative to wakatime because I don't think a wakatime premium should cost more than a Github copilot subscription. The problem wakatime solves is rather straightforward. Their hardest bit of business is creating all those plugins, besides that the backend just ingests plugin data and organizes it into a dashboard that gives insights into developer work habits. I also felt features like goals, invoices and management of clients shouldn't require premium subscription. And for the most part, I feel I'm right. Especially after implementing these features. The website is…
2025 · wakana.io · its alternatives →
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For the past 4 years, I've been tracking the install counts of AI coding extensions in the Visual Studio Code marketplace (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.) Today, I built an interactive dashboard that lets you see daily install counts for any of them over time. The chart shows GitHub Copilot by default, and you can overlay or swap in any of the other 20+ tools to compare. You can also see important dates in each tool's history (pricing changes, major releases, etc.) and how daily installs changed around those dates. Important caveats: 1) This only tracks VS Code extension…
2025 · bloomberry.com · its alternatives →
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CodeDammit▲140Learn programming by looking at real code examples
2016 · codedammit.co · its alternatives →
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Emacs Minor Mode for WakaTime. Contribute to woochica/wakatime-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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