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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▲110

    Metrics & automatic time tracking for programmers

    2014 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →

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    Answer questions about your coding activity

    2022 · 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▲135

    VS Code extension for automatic programming metrics

    2019 · antenna.dev · its alternatives →

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    WakaTime-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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    #1 WakaTime Mobile Client

    2025 · wtkit.app · 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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    Mobile 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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    Notion, 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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    Learn 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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