# WakaTime Reviews **Vendor:** WakaTime **Category:** [Other Development Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-development) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About WakaTime Wakatime provides metrics, insights and time tracking generated from users' programming activity. ## WakaTime Reviews ### 1. Good Functionalities but Rather Pricy **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2024 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** The dashboard overview is rather nice. Tracks for multiple devices. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** Very pricy. Recently they also reduced the free dashboard overview to 1 week from 2 weeks. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get an overview of my coding time ### 2. Torbjorn review wakatime **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Torbjorn Z. | Digital Innovation Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** As a developer, I like best the dashboard **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** As a developer, I like the dashboard best, which gives me data on how much coding I have done on various projects that I am working on. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a developer it resolves the time I bill my customer for work I do for them, I can let them see how much time I spent and get paid accordingly. ### 3. It's very motivating **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marylly (Ela/She/Her) S. | Senior Software Development Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** I can have my goals and time spent coding in many computers vs code and I don't lose track of my improving **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** I'd like to export the spent hours to a CSV file to aggregate data. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'd like to see my working and studying spent time and try to have more time studying. ### 4. Professional tool to help with time management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** A great tool to track the time you're spending on a specific project, with language tracking capabilities. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** The dashboard's interface is not visually appealing. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** I know how much time I am spending on each of the different projects I am working on. ### 5. WakaTime **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro M. | Junior Android Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** When you develop a software as a freelance by remote, usually the client want to know how much you worked on his project or on a specific file during debugging. WakaTime provide to you and your client all the info you need . WakaTime provide integrations with different IDE, chat and VCS platforms to be able to share software commits with team members. All you need to do is create a WakaTime account and add the required plugin to your IDE. Usually the plugin begin to track your progresses when the IDE start on a project. The WakaTime website keep track of all your and your team members progresses on projects and files. Provide the total amount of time spend in writing code and daily average time. Provide the chance to share Repo Badges, Charts, Goals and email Reports A FREE personal version is available with limited features. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** As freelance I'd like to have the chance to integrate WakaTime with Figma when I develop UI and prototypes. Unfortunately this integration is not yet available also if Figma is now very well popular among developers. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** If you need to know how long you have wrote code in the last week on that specific project WakaTime can be useful to you. According to your requirements you should have the option to upgrade it to a Full Personal version or a Team Version. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keep track of the time spent on a single project or file. Be able to provide to clients my working times and keep track of personal progresses and goals. ### 6. Automatic time tracking in your favorite IDE **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Smokie L. | UX / UI / Visual designer and consultant, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** I like that WakaTime automatically tracks your time in your IDE, then categorizes it based on language. I can easily see how much time I'm spending on CSS / SASS vs JS as well as how much time I'm spending in each project, or even each IDE. Their dashboard shows you lots of beautiful graphs of stats related to languages, IDE, time and projects (connect to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket to track commits). Much more granular than a desktop time tracker and you can track your output against goals that you set. Want to code more HAML? You can do that. Want to spend less time in your IDE? You can track that too. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** Their design is starting to look a little dated. The UX is still excellent, and the UI works correctly, but it just looks a little 2015. Which makes sense, since they started before then, but as a designer I always want to see things just a little more modern. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** If you need to track your actual time coding as well as coding languages, there is no better addon / extension than WakaTime. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to much more accurately track how much time I spend actually coding, versus refactoring or writing user narratives. It's very nice to see how much I have - or haven't - been working on my JavaScript skills. Well, it's depressing, but good in a self-improvement way. =) ### 7. A passive yet super informative tool! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan G. | Principal Broker/ Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** It just "works"! Does its thing in the background and gives you real-time and meaningful analytics. Integrates nicely. NOTE: I have only been using this tool for a few weeks now and do not have significant usage to provide further useful feedback at this time. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** Nothing yet! NOTE: I have only been using this tool for a few weeks now and do not have significant usage to provide further meaningful feedback at this time. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** As with all SaaS, you should test and compare at least 2-3 similar service providers. This will give you the insight you need to make an informed decision based on what is right for you. Take advantage of the trials, tutorials, and onboarding assistance. Be sure you are fully ready to commit before full implementation. NOTE: I have only been using this tool for a few weeks now and do not have significant usage to provide further meaningful feedback at this time. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** The obvious...keeps track of my coding time without having to manually "clock in" or clock out." NOTE: I have only been using this tool for a few weeks now and do not have significant usage to provide further meaningful feedback at this time. ### 8. Time tracker for your coding time and skill **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** I use WakaTime because it gives details about my coding time. I have plugin for Android studio. Wakatime uses awesome UI charts to gives time tracking on a working project. With use of this tool can improve and increase my productivity by focusing on the right project. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** it would be very nice if code time tracking works in offline also. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** If you are interested in tracking your coding skill and time and also share that with your team members than this is the best option for that. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this tool in almost every project in our company from starting of our app to tracking detail. By using this we find out where we need to focus and what we need to improve by getting tracking details of it. ### 9. Time tracker for your code. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** It is like a fitness program for a developer like us. It will track all your coding detail and time so we can improve our self in that particular skill or problem. It shows tracking detail in awesome UI charts. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** It doesn't track your detail in offline mode. They should work on that also. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** If you want accurate details of each and every step in your project then this is absolutely the right choice for that. You can also improve yourself where your skill takes time. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** We implement waketime plugin from 1st of the project start. So we can get easily data of which module takes more or less time. And individually also it is very helpful for improving ourselves. ### 10. WakaTime - Great tool for tracking time of your coding **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ishani M. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2019 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** - Very easy to use and light to handle. - This tool easily track your coding time. - This tool improve your coding speed. - Also this tool improve your skill. - UI design is very cool and professional. - This is give many features and functions. **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** - From my opinion nothing to dislike in this tool. all feature and functions work perfectly. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** - Easy to use and light to handle. - Great tool for tracking time of your coding. - So i would mostly recommend this tool to user. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** - It's help me to improve my coding speed and skill. - This tool track exact time of my coding. ### 11. No way to improve without metrics. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about WakaTime?** WakaTime has created a universal why of where, when, how development work happens with an intuitive way to visualise on an individual an team basis. Add in the leaderboards for some motivation and you've got yourself a great tool! **What do you dislike about WakaTime?** Would love to see some sort of mobile device tracking but no idea how that would/could work. **Recommendations to others considering WakaTime:** Definitely a most have for anyone interested habit tracking. **What problems is WakaTime solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides the team the ability to see what others are in real time and provide insight to areas that could be streamlined. ## WakaTime Discussions - [How do you use Wakatime?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-use-wakatime) - [Is WakaTime safe?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-wakatime-safe) - [Is WakaTime good?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-wakatime-good) - [What does WakaTime do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-wakatime-do) - [View WakaTime pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/wakatime/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+10%3A23%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e84348f1-9429-446a-ac31-9881583a98e2&secure%5Btoken%5D=81fb8c0f7f236b1468c561a6171e0301e940535c3d1820deaab23d68597db54a&format=llm_user) ## Top WakaTime Alternatives - [Okta](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,196 reviews) - [Termius](https://www.g2.com/products/termius/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (254 reviews) - [SAP Fiori](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-fiori/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (128 reviews)