# 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.

- **URL:** https://fxis.ai/edu/minimal-open-source-screen-time-tracker-cli-app-watcher/
- **Category:** time-tracking-cli-tools
- **Tags:** Open Source, Command Line, usage-monitoring, personal-use
- **Updated:** 2025-05-13 22:52
- **Canonical page:** https://timetrack.works/ru/items/watcher

## Details

# 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.

## Links
- [Source / More Information](https://fxis.ai/edu/minimal-open-source-screen-time-tracker-cli-app-watcher/)

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