Watcher

Watcher is a CLI application that helps users gain perspective on their screen time. It is open-source and designed for those who want to monitor and manage computer usage time via the command line.

Time Tracking CLI Tools
5/13/2025
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Watcher

Watcher is a minimal, open-source command-line interface (CLI) application for tracking and analyzing your screen time. It helps users gain perspective on their daily and weekly computer usage habits directly from the terminal.

Features

  • Minimal, open-source CLI application for screen time tracking
  • Tracks and visualizes your daily and weekly screen time habits
  • Provides summaries for both day and week usage
  • Designed for personal use and easy installation
  • Usage monitoring entirely from the command line
  • Open for contributions (CONTRIBUTING.md available)
  • Note: AFK (Away From Keyboard) detection is not yet implemented, so all time the computer is on may be counted as screen time

Pricing

  • Watcher is free and open-source.

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