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24 alternatives to Ziit

I built an open source wakatime alternative with the main focus being that it is self-hostable, and therefore you control your data. On top of that do I think that the UI/UX experience of wakatime is not the best that's why I focused on a minimal and clean design while at the same time taking a lot of inspiration and principals from plausible analytics because that is widely known it should be easier to get used to the UI of Ziit. I recently release the first major version, v1.0.0 of Ziit and would love your feedback on features that are not yet implemented. Although Ziit currently only…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites.

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    Open source IDE plugins for programmers.

    2015 · wakatime.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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    WakaTime▲110

    Metrics & automatic time tracking for programmers

    2014 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hacker News! This is my first post here. About 5 months ago, I left my job because I was completely burnt out. After taking some time off, I started freelancing. But I found tracking my time to be a real hassle as I kept forgetting to start or stop the timer and often had no idea what I’d worked on. So, I decided to build Taim as a side project, while also working now on some freelancing gigs. Taim is going to be automated time tracking tool for freelancers and teams. It’s designed to make tracking time effortless and accurate, so you can focus on your work and not worry about the clock.…

    2024 · taimapp.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate your daily coding goal

    2020 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →

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    Code Editor, Terminal, Git, AI Agent for Android

    Aug 2026 · zyntax.app · its alternatives →

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    I've been running long duration coding agents with Claude Code for about 6 months now. Steve Yegge released Beads back in October and I found that giving Claude tools for proper task tracking was a massive unlock. But Beads grew massively in a short time and every release made it slower and more frustrating to use. I started battling it several times a week as its background daemon took to syncing the wrong things at the wrong times. Over the holidays I finally ripped it out and wrote ticket as a replacement. It keeps the core concept I actually cared about (graph-based task dependencies)…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WakaTime-compatible coding analytics with real-time insights

    May 2026 · chronova.dev · its alternatives →

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    #1 WakaTime Mobile Client

    2025 · wtkit.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I recently open-sourced a project that I came up with in the late 2022 and have been working on and off since. It's taken around a year or so of active development in total. My problem with habit-trackers is that they're all the same. All of them basically allow to track only one thing - X times per 1 day. That's very rigid and goes against my instinct to ease into new things. I wanted something that's flexible, self-sustainable, and wouldn't require a lot of maintenance. After a bit of tinkering I came up with something novel - adjustable habit frequencies. And made all the custom…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · 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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    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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    Hi HN! We at Moment[1] are working on Notion alternative which is (1) rich and collaborative, but (2) also just plain-old Markdown files, stored in git (ok, technically in jj), on local disk. We think the era of rigid SaaS UI is, basically, over: coding agents (`claude`, `amp`, `copilot`, `opencode`, etc.) are good enough now that they instantly build custom UI that fits your needs exactly. The very best agents in the world are coding agents, and we want to allow people to simply use them, e.g., to build little internal tools—but without compromising on collaboration. Moment aims to cover…

    Mar 2026 · moment.dev · its alternatives →

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    After fine-tuning GPT for a personal project, I realized how tedious it is to write plain text in a massive JSON file. That's why I built this app for my own use, and I want to see if others could benefit from a tool like this as well ;)

    2024 · finetuna-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

    2025 · alternativeoss.com · its alternatives →

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    XUtil▲14

    I built xutil.in, a growing collection of simple, fast, and ad-free developer utilities—all bundled into a single site. It started as a weekend project when I got tired of juggling multiple tools from random websites with slow UIs or annoying popups. Currently includes tools like: JSON/XML/YAML converters JWT decoder Hash generators (SHA-256, etc.) Base64/ROT13 encoders QR code generator Timezone converter LeetSpeak & Pig Latin translators ...and more than 25 others Everything works client-side. No login required. No tracking. No dark patterns. Would love feedback, feature…

    2025 · xutil.in · its alternatives →

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    A minimalist self-hosted time tracking tool for developers

    2021 · wakapi.dev · its alternatives →

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    An open-source, headless, API-first platform that empowers developers and product teams to create and optimize custom in-app user flows, such as new user onboarding wizards. Tutim library supports multi-step forms, conditional branching, custom validation, l10n, and more – all through a JSON schema and unlimited flexibility through code. Beta release on GitHub (star us!): https://github.com/tutim-io/tutim. Why it's better than other form builders or open-source libraries? - Flexible: Seamlessly integrate Tutim with your design system components, APIs, and your backend. -…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quantify your coding in Visual Studio Code

    2015 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been building TimeTracker over the past few years, and it's grown into a comprehensive self-hosted platform for time tracking, project management, and invoicing.*What it does:*- Time tracking with persistent server-side timers- Professional PDF invoice generation- Project & task management- Client CRM- Expense tracking- Advanced reporting & analytics- Role-based permissions- REST API*Why self-hosted:*I was tired of paying $15-20/month for time tracking tools and having my data locked in SaaS platforms. This gives complete control.*Tech:*- Python/Flask backend- PostgreSQL +…

    Nov 2025 · timetracker.drytrix.com · its alternatives →

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    This is my personal todo app, which I made a while back after the original https://xit.jotaen.net/ post. tuido is written in go, with the bubbletea tui framework. My daily workflow involves creating YYYY-MM-DD.md and taking notes, many of which are effectively low-level todos that fall below the threshold for more public or involved issue trackers. Problem was that these half-hazard todos weren't tracked at all. After seeing the [x]it spec, it seemed clear that a little tooling could fix this. I've been reasonably happy with it.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I love the idea of quantified self and recently decided to pull all of my data in one place. I pull all of my data from ActivityWatch, Wakatime, and Health Connect APIs :)

    2023 · kshivendu.dev · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to share something I've been working on recently: Statum, a handy web analytics tool. https://github.com/extractumio/statum The journey began when I found myself frequently needing simple web analytics for my projects. I tried Google Analytics, especially GA4, and realized it was quite complex and, at times, not very accurate, especially when I wanted to view stats for the current day or recent hours. Then I tested a few fancy startup solution but ended up with way too expensive plans the expect me to subscribe (I'm not that rich to pay $99/month for every…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I built this because I wanted a little bit more organization around my Claude sessions, worktrees and plans while staying in the terminal and not relying on another SaaS tool. Since it's a command line tool, the added bonus is that Claude can use `td` directly. The td calendar was just a fun add-on but the Claude session stats have been pretty interesting! Let me know what you think!

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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