Downloads

ActivityWatch v0.14.1

Windows

Installer (recommended)
.zip
Chocolatey

Linux

Choose .zip to extract and run manually, .AppImage for a standalone app (mark it executable first), or .deb for Debian/Ubuntu's package installer. AUR and nixpkgs are distribution packages and may update separately.

Match the download to your CPU: run uname -m in a terminal. x86_64 means 64-bit Intel/AMD; aarch64 or arm64 means ARM64. Use a matching build only if listed.

.zip (x86_64)
.AppImage (x86_64)
.deb (x86_64)
AUR, for Arch Linux and Manjaro
nixpkgs, for NixOS

macOS

Open Apple menu → About This Mac. A Chip entry naming Apple M-series means Apple Silicon; an Intel Processor means Intel. Choose the matching download below.

.dmg (recommended) (Apple Silicon)
.dmg (recommended) (Intel)
.zip (Apple Silicon)
.zip (Intel)
Homebrew

Android

ActivityWatch is free and community-funded. If it's useful to you, consider supporting the project — it keeps development going and the tool independent.

For help on how to get started, see the Getting Started guide in the documentation.

Looking for an older or pre-release version? You can find all releases on GitHub.

Nightly builds

Unstable "nightly" builds are automated by our CI setup. These contain yet-unreleased features and bug fixes. See issue #507 for where to get them.

Watchers

What is a watcher? A watcher is a program or plugin that watches for activity of different kinds and reports it to ActivityWatch.

ActivityWatch comes with two watchers preinstalled:

Window watcher: tracks the active application/window
AFK watcher: tracks if you're using your mouse and keyboard to determine if you are AFK.

The documentation contains a list of all available watchers (editor plugins, for example).

Web browser watchers

Use these web extensions to get more detailed tracking about the websites you visit (such as the URL, or if a tab is playing sound).