Project and task management

Memtime alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

ActivityWatch/activitywatch18,521MPL-2.0Cross-platform, privacy-focused automatic desktop activity tracker that records app and browser usage.Open on GitHub JerryZLiu/Dayflow6,819MITLocal-first automatic work journal that turns your screen activity into a timeline and time entries.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished, cross-platform native UX and long-term stability
The vendor-maintained catalogue of 100+ integrations and one-click syncs
Phone-call tracking and enterprise SSO/SCIM features
Priority support, onboarding, and same-day implementation
Proven privacy guarantee and legal/operational history

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Memtime, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.